牡丹雖好，全仗綠葉扶

Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.

(of a bird, animal or plant) male / key / hills

Mudan District of Heze City 菏澤市|菏泽市[He2 ze2 Shi4], Shandong / Mutan township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan

tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)

red / pellet / powder / cinnabar

although / even though

good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to

good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

all / whole / entire / every / complete

weaponry / to hold (a weapon) / to wield / to rely on / to depend on / war / battle

green / (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子[lü4 mao4 zi5]) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend)

green leaf / (fig.) actor playing a supporting role

leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats / a surname

to support with the hand / to help sb up / to support oneself by holding onto something / to help

Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.