IT’S NOT SURPRISING that tree peonies are the national flower of China. The magnificent flowers can be as big as dinner plates. They come in a wide variety of vibrant colors, and many are fragrant.

Every third garden, it seems, has herbaceous peonies, but you could go from one end of any town to the other and never see a tree peony. Their scarcity is due at least in part to some myths and ...

Q:How do tree peonies fare in San Francisco? I have recently purchased a tree peony and planted it in a well-drained, morning-sun location in my area of the Craggs Court Community Garden. This garden ...

Honestly, it was love at first sight. I stepped inside the greenhouse, and there it was. Its one blossom was turned toward me. The broad, cupped petals looked like pink velvet, punctuated by a yellow ...

All peonies have an opulent, abundant beauty, but tree peonies are almost indecently glamorous. Just a single bloom, its silky petals cupped around a central boss of golden yellow stamens, can turn ...

They take a few years to bloom prolifically, but will become a showstopper in your garden for decades to come. Of all the wonderful different types of flowering plants that I simply have to have in my ...

THE ordinary kind of peony is a relatively familiar garden flower, usually with large deep-red or pink flowers. The large flowers resemble cabbage roses and often hang down after heavy rain. The tree ...

Peonies are a popular long-lived perennial that provides wonderful flowers in the spring and attractive foliage the rest of the growing season. If provided a good growing site and proper care, an ...

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 wouldn't say the flowers of tree peonies — those "other" peonies — prepare you for the flowery show of the more common herbaceous peonies that come soon after. No, with quivering golden stamens ...