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How to grow and care for peonies

The key to beautiful blooms is planning ahead of time.
Few possess the beauty of a tree peony – the gloriously colored blooms that blossom – and create a stunning display – every early summer. It's easy to understand why so many gardeners can't resist ...
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Peonies care basics every gardener should know

Peony is a classic perennial that returns each spring for decades. Use our tips to plant, grow, and prune with confidence.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mkovalevskaya / Getty Images There are three kinds of peonies—herbaceous, tree, and intersectional—that have different care needs ...
The scent of peonies immediately takes me back to my childhood home in Western North Carolina and my mother's garden. Her bed of peonies was a source of pride and joy every spring. Those delicate ...
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 ...
One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. The peony ...
Several years ago, I fell in love with peonies, particularly Itoh peonies. Sometimes described as the “prom queens of the garden,” I love how their bold upright growth topped with their equally bold ...
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 ...
There are three kinds of peonies—herbaceous, tree, and intersectional—that have different care needs and uses. Use peonies as in flower beds, mixed beds, along borders, or as statement pieces to add ...