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Check out our awesome peonies!!! (PIP)
This is our first year in the house and I am absolutely in love with the tree peonies! Now to figure out how to make them bloom more next year.
This is from the one tree... We had about 8 blooms on it.
This is from the other. There were only two and each was as big as my hand.
Re: Check out our awesome peonies!!! (PIP)
Wowza.
Do you know how old the plants are? Some take a few years to really bloom, so if you're getting more every year that's a good sign.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
So pretty!
I'm so jealous. We can't grow them here.
I do grow camelias instead, but it isn't quite the same.
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I have three herbaceous peonies (one giant one from the previous owners and two smaller guys that I planted over the last couple of years since we bought our house). I love them, but I had been really wanting a tree peony, so this year I got one! Yay! DH and I just got it in the ground on Saturday morning, and two of the three blooms that it had on it when I bought it were already starting to open when we planted it. They're SO PRETTY! Mine is yellow - the herbaceous peonies I have are two shades of pink, so I wanted something different. I can't wait til it gets all big and has lots more flowers on it.
FoxinFiji - mine was $50 from a local garden shop here in RI. I'm not sure if that's a good price or bad price, or average, but it's a really nice looking tree, and a pretty good size, with three blooms on it this year (in the ground it's maybe 2.5 feet tall or so). I tend to always buy my peonies from this one local shop, just because they always have very nice, locally grown stock, so that's why I don't really know about the prices elsewhere.
Sugar & Spice
Wow I'm seriously envious of your warmer zone girls right now! That's the problem with being on a national gardening board I guess.
Are you a zone 5? There are a lot more tree peony options at zone 5 than there are here in zone 4. Our options are limited. I can get a stick of a tree peony for that price but an actual tree 3' or higher is $80-$250 with the nicer looking ones $150 or more!
I'll get one someday but for now I'm working on a flowerbed that needs to be juglone tolerant so any peony is out of the question. Makes me want to cut down every black walnut tree we have right now so we can start getting rid of that toxin they fill the soil with!