‘Ice Storm’ is a hybrid tree peony with snowy white slightly recurved petals and a boss of golden yellow stamens. Plant in full sun, moderately fertile soils and do not disturb once planted - they dislike transplanting.

This cultivar was bred by Sir Peter Smithers - the original James Bond and a renaissance man extraordinaire, combining the vigor and hardiness of Paeonia rockii with the flower elegance of Paeonia suffruticosa in Switzerland.

Peonies are popular garden plants, known for their stunning flowers, their cold hardiness and the huge variety of their colors, forms, and habits. They are divided into two main groups: herbaceous, which die to the ground in the fall; and tree peonies, which are deciduous plants with woody stems that they retain throughout the winter. A third category—the Itoh or intersectional peonies—display the extravagant blooms of tree peonies on herbaceous stems. All peonies bloom between April and June. Flowers on tree peonies appear one to two weeks before those on herbaceous peonies.