This guide will take you through some of the most popular types of peony flowers for your garden or next floral arrangement covering tree, herbaceous, and itoh peonies.

The kind of peony that isn't likely to do well in San Francisco, or in other strongly ocean-influenced parts of the Bay Area, is the herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora). These thrive in cold ...

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 ...

Pruned to between 3 and 5 feet, a tree peony will rarely need staking. Ciscoe Morris: ciscoe@ciscoe.com. “Gardening With Ciscoe” airs weekly on KING 5; check local listings.

There are three basic categories of peony: herbaceous peonies, tree peonies and intersectional or Itoh peonies. Herbaceous peonies are long-lived, and plants die back to the ground every year and ...

My tree peony always has bounced back from this leaf disease, but I'm sure it weakens the plant. The control is to spray with a fungicide every 7 to 10 starting from when the leaves emerge in spring.

peony Peony primer: enjoying Boerner's earliest blossoms A traditional favorite for color, fragrance and history, more than 250 Peony varieties are soon to bloom at Boerner Botanical Gardens.

A: Since no new flowers are expected after springtime, peony seedpods don't interfere with subsequent blooming. But they do detract from the plant's summer beauty so most folks remove them when ...

Making all that brand new growth, it was almost certain not to flower this year. If I were you I would have a go at persuading your tree peony to flower before deciding about its future.

The "peony king" is over 120 years old and measures 2.7 meters tall and 3.7 meters wide. It once had a record of nearly 300 flowers blossoming, according to staff from the city's Peony Park.