We are Missouri peony growers and hybridizers specializing in field production of bush peonies, herbaceous hybrids, Itoh hybrids, heirlooms, new varieties, species, as well as rare and hard to find ones. We grow thousands of different genera, registered cultivars, specific epithets and species.

Our roots go back more than 50 years. With a plot of rented land and hard work, it was there that Don Hollingsworth’s love for plants transformed into a legacy built into decades worth of American hybridizing and growing some of the world’s finest peonies.

Until the 1990s, Don owned and operated his business by selling plants at this Missouri residence, which later transpired into a growing online and print catalog mail order business. Throughout the years, the catalog featured many of the Missouri grower’s specialty peony varieties, which he introduced into production and registered with the International Cultivar Registration Authority.

With the same vision and passion for peonies, a new generation acquired Hollingsworth Peonies in 2012. The farm which still resides in NW Missouri, not far from the original homestead, features several 100s of acres of rich, black prairie soil, irrigated fields with additional water resources for growing nearly one million peonies which carries on the Hollingsworth legacy.

By the late 2010s, Hollingsworth Peonies developed a strong relationship with the state Department of Natural resources and implemented soil erosion, water conservation and sustainable land stewardship methods. The peony hybridizing program advanced and the company established a formal relationship with USDA Plant Variety Protection and the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Hollingsworth Peonies currently owns numerous US trademarks and patents. The company joined the Missouri Grown Program and became a certified Missouri grower. So our roots have grown right here in the Midwest and pledge to never sell imported material to our valued customers.