Landscape Design with Peonies
Selection

Landscape Design with Peonies

Tree peonies blooming at Cricket Hill Garden. Here we have interplanted hosta, and allowed some digitalis to self-seed. If we are to consider p...

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How to Plant a Tree Peony
Planting

How to Plant a Tree Peony

A straightforward step-by-step tutorial video demonstrating how to plant a tree peony. Feel confident about planting your own tree from Cricket Hill!

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Dividing a Tree Peony
Care & Propagation

Dividing a Tree Peony

The principle method by which tree peonies are propagated is by grafting. This is a rather involved, labor intense procedure. Much simpler is to p...

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Dividing a Herbaceous Peony
Care & Propagation

Dividing a Herbaceous Peony

Do you have a large, old herbaceous peony clump that you would like to propagate? The best way to do this is through dividing the root system. This...

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Grafting Tree Peonies
Care & Propagation

Grafting Tree Peonies

From mid August to early October is the time to graft tree peonies in our USDA zone 6. Grafting is the most efficient means of reproducing a new cl...

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Pruning a Mature Tree Peony
Care & Propagation

Pruning a Mature Tree Peony

Early spring is the best time to prune a mature tree peony. The window to do this in the zone 6 ande below is after the buds have begun to swell, a...

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Peony Bloom Sequence
Selection

Peony Bloom Sequence

Below is a rough breakdown of the bloom times of the various types of peonies. During very warm springs this period is very compressed. We have li...

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Peony Flower Forms
Selection

Peony Flower Forms

Like all of nature's creations, peony blossoms come in a variety of shapes and sizes. As the chart below illustrates, in China blossoms are classif...

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Etymology of the Word "peony"
HortiCULTURE

Etymology of the Word "peony"

Peonies, both tree and herbaceous first attracted human interest thousands of years ago. While we today primarily think of peonies as stunning orna...

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