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Peonies are gorgeous spring-blooming perennials that provide weeks of flowers, but they can often droop. We asked experts how ...
If you're having an intimate gathering at home, displaying peonies in a variety of mismatched bud vases can create a multi-dimensional design and is an inexpensive way to make single blooms look ...
By J.J. Barrett Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners. Here on the farm, it is always around Memorial Day that my ...
Spring rainfall boosts perennial and shrub growth, enhancing gardens with thriving peonies and eco-friendly xeriscapes.
C.L. Fornari, author, radio host, and garden consultant, recommends a low-cost, nearly invisible way to stake a single peony even during the growing season. She installs one stake tall enough to ...
An embarrassment of riches. The single and semidouble flowering peonies of every type are the stuff of Japanese prints, supremely elegant and the easiest to grow. The American Peony Society issues ...
Paeonia tenuifolia (Fernleaf Peony) is a shrubby, herbaceous perennial with finely divided, feathery foliage and eye-catching single flowers, 4 inches across. In the Cottage Garden, their fernleaf ...
Chocolate Soldier': A hard-to-find bush peony with dark chocolate flowers set off nicely by yellow anthers and red carpels. Flowers can range from single to double. Blooms mid- to late May.
Pam and Dick Bouton of El Cerrito planted a white single peony (Paeonia) two years ago and got their first blooms this year. Perhaps the lingering spring rains gave it the boost it needed.
Peony used her last bit of strength to try and kick the book closed, but it remained open. A single tear fell onto her leafy prison as she closed her eyes and forfeited her struggle.
You’ve been missing out if you haven’t explored all the different forms of peonies! Single peonies are simplistic beauty with one or two rows of large petals surrounding a yellow center of ...