Q: Chinese tree peonies are beautiful, but very expensive. Can you tell me the best way to plant and maintain this flower? A: Tree peonies make striking specimen plants, but they fake people out ...

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 ...

Tree peonies are the Lamborghini of the horticultural world — flashy and outrageously expensive. I prefer hard lemonade to champagne, so I was never tempted into the rarefied world of hundred-dollar ...

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 ...

Long on looks and stamina, the resplendent peony is back, yet again. The popular perennials are exhibiting their seasonal performance, albeit after a minor weather-related procrastination. Despite ...

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 ...

Summer gardening is in full swing. If you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and Master ...

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 ...

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