Many gardeners’ springtime dreams include a living bouquet of plate-sized, lush and fragrant peonies arching gracefully on sturdy stems, billowing in the spring breeze, decorated in soft shades of ...

Plant bare-root peonies 2–4 weeks before frost for earlier blooms the next spring. Fall-planted peonies quickly grow strong roots and often bloom their first growing season. Peonies can be planted in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." [table-of-contents] stripped Lush, fragrant peonies are one of the most breathtaking perennial flowers, ...

The recent warm weather paves the way for plenty of early season bloom this year and Therese Sprauer of Brooks Gardens reminds us that peonies are long-lived, low-maintenance, deer-resistant flowering ...

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 ...

Peonies are colorful flowering plants that can be a great addition to your garden. They are easy to grow, with not much upkeep required to thrive. These hardy perennial plants can survive severe ...

I would like to plant a peony bush this year. Anything special I need to know? A: Good soil, full sun and don't plant too deeply. The main threat to peonies is rotting in wet soil and also the threat ...

Isn't this the wrong time of year to think about peonies? Not if you want to give these garden stalwarts a head start on growing. Planting peony roots in the fall gives the plants months to settle in ...

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 ...