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Want peony blooms every spring? Plant fall peonies to enjoy these beauties in your flower garden. Also learn when to divide ...
Peonies are colorful flowering plants that can be a great addition to your garden. They are easy to grow, with not much upkeep required to thrive.
Rabbits do not like the taste of plants with large, blousy flowers such as peonies, irises, lupins, oriental poppies and kniphofia, and won't be tempted to snack on their roots, stems or blooms.
Deadheading peonies doesn't encourage more flowers in the current season but benefits the plant long-term. Removing spent peony flowers can improve the plant's appearance, strengthen root and stem ...
Renowned for producing large, open flowers, few plants offer such a vast range of forms and colors as peonies, from purest white to lemon yellow, softest pink to deepest red.
If you’re ready to bring your flowers indoors, rinse or shake them off to say goodbye to the ants. And it’s best to cut peonies at a certain stage for longest bloom time in the vase. If they ...
In a garden border, use peony rings with grid-like tops — the largest diameter available, at least 18 inches — that the stems will grow through. Don’t wait until spring, when the plant is ...
Garden peonies can be a reliable source of large showy flowers year after year if care is given to maintaining the proper growing conditions responsible for plant health.
One of the first peony plants that I purchased, that of ‘Sarah Bernhardt’, has stems that are too weak to support the enticing flowers in the garden, though she’s magnificent in a vase.