Peonies fall over due to external factors like harsh weather, weak stems, or they're not being planted deep enough. To prevent them from falling over, move your peonies to a sunnier location, plant ...

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 ...

As a child growing up near Kansas City, I formed an opinion about peonies. I didn’t like them. Even a moderate rain left the big blossoms lying on the ground, a muddy mess. Peony breeder Don ...

This fall, when you buy bare-root peonies, take a chance on yellow or coral-colored hybrids. Your garden will thank you. By Margaret Roach “The garden starts orange,” Kathleen Gagan was saying the ...

What would spring be without a few peonies in the garden? There are few other plants that are as completely bomb-proof, explode out of the cold, spring ground with more force, and erupt into color ...

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A traditional favorite for color, fragrance and history, more than 250 Peony varieties are soon to bloom at Boerner Botanical Gardens. A traditional favorite for color, fragrance and history, more ...

Roger Lycette grew up on a farm in Amity, so when he retired from his job as a field engineer for IBM, in 1998, it felt natural to take up gardening. He started planting traditional New England ...

Gardeners rarely bicker among themselves. It's just not part of the gardening theme. But ask people the correct way to pronounce peony, and you get as close to raucous as gardeners can get. With the ...

With some simple peony care in spring, you can give plants a head start on the growing season. Here's what you need to do to ...