Few possess the beauty of a tree peony – the gloriously colored blooms that blossom – and create a stunning display – every early summer. It's easy to understand why so many gardeners can't resist ...

Q: Chinese tree peonies are beautiful, but very expensive. Can you tell me the best way to plant and maintain this flower? A: Tree peonies make striking specimen plants, but they fake people out ...

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 ...

October is a great time to prune popular garden plants to ensure your outdoor space thrives throughout the seasonal changes ...

Blue-flowering Corydalis, related to poppies, is among the most attractive of spring-blooming perennials. The botanical name means crested lark and refers to the birdlike appearance of the attractive ...

Q:How do tree peonies fare in San Francisco? I have recently purchased a tree peony and planted it in a well-drained, morning-sun location in my area of the Craggs Court Community Garden. This garden ...

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 rarely ...

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. Their scarcity is due at least in part to some myths and ...

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-dollar ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. The peony ...