My peonies are in full bud but not quite ready to open. The bed they are planted in used to be quite sunny -- until the dogwood grew in. I need to finish building my rock wall and move the peonies out into the sun when they go dormant this winter, just too much shade for the poor things.
There are two types of peonies, I have the type that die down every year. If you get lots of leaves and no flowers, you have them planted wrong -- usually too deep. Two of them have strong scents, two not much, and one is sort of in-between!