Tips for growing peonies in pots When it comes to picking a pot for your peony container display, the bigger the better. 'Use a container at least 12in wide at the top or large enough to fit your ...

Every third garden, it seems, has herbaceous peonies, but you could go from one end of any town to the other and never see a tree peony.

Tree peonies are the Lamborghini of the horticultural world — flashy and outrageously expensive. I prefer hard lemonade to champagne, so I was never tempted into the rarefied world of hundred ...

The tree peonies that are planted in large pots in the nursery are much more bulky and have larger flowers. I think the good potting soil, regular food and water and brighter light is the reason.

Q: I have a Japanese tree peony in a large pot. It seems to be doing fine, but I have noticed some unusual new growth at the base of the plant.

Herbaceous peonies don’t tend to bloom if they are planted any deeper than they came out of the pot. Tree peonies, on the other hand, should be planted considerably deeper, because they’re ...

A couple of years ago, when a local nursery was offering tree peonies in 1-gallon pots for only $10 each, I snatched one up. At that price, slow growth would be tolerable.

Garden peonies, tree peonies, and Itoh peonies have different landscape uses. Learn which type of peonies works best for different spots in your yard.

A couple of years ago, when a local nursery was offering tree peonies in 1-gallon pots for only $10 each, I snatched one up. At that price, slow growth would be tolerable.

A 10-year-old tree peony is still a seedling, according to experts, and plants can bloom for years. In China, there are said to be tree peonies more than 200 years old that still bloom profusely.

I wouldn't say the flowers of tree peonies — those "other" peonies — prepare you for the flowery show of the more common herbaceous peonies that come soon after.