My friend and former colleague had the pleasure of fall blooms on her yellow tree peony. Here's her story, along with a great tip. By Diana Colvin Surprise -- 'Kintoh,' a yellow tree peony in my ...
It can't get much better than the scent of peonies filling your yard in spring. Renowned for producing large, open flowers, few plants offer such a vast range of forms and colors as peonies, from ...
So, you ask, what exactly is a tree peony? First, it's not a tree; it's a shrub. Think of it more like a hydrangea, or a large, deciduous azalea, because with very few exceptions, tree peonies rarely ...
M.B. Any off-color or unusual growth coming from the base of a grafted plant such as a tree peony sounds like a sucker. Time to make a surgical strike against the invader with a sharp knife and steady ...
With today’s rush to get new garden plant varieties to market, it will come as no surprise to any gardener that sometimes the evaluation of those new introductions doesn’t necessarily support the ...
I was nose-to-nose with an ant the other day. I bent to smell a lush, fluffy peony, and surprise! Fortunately for both of us, I hadn’t reached maximum sniffing capacity. Harvey Buchite from Hidden ...
SOMETIMES A SINGLE exquisite bloom is enough to take your breath away. Sorting through pictures of tree peony blooms from the Seattle Chinese Garden, more than once I gasped with delight. But to truly ...
BASALT – The gorgeous yellow peony flower shattered when summer arrived last week, but I have pictures to prove I didn’t imagine it. Three years ago, I succumbed to the lure of a peony described as ...
A traditional favorite for color, fragrance and history, more than 250 Peony varieties are soon to bloom at Boerner Botanical Gardens. A traditional favorite for color, fragrance and history, more ...
Many signs that spring is arriving are coming up. In my garden it’s a fernleaf peony. Fernleaf peony is one of the earliest peony and garden bloomers. It always makes me laugh when I see it emerging: ...
Fern-leaf peonies, with their feathery foliage and deep red flowers, are among the rarest peonies. The reason why there’s a patch of them growing at the Lititz Historical Foundation’s museum can be ...