With today’s rush to get new garden plant varieties to market, it will come as no surprise to any gardener that sometimes the evaluation of those new introductions doesn’t necessarily support the ...

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 ...

Some of our peonies march on into June, showing off, spreading fragrance and adding delight to the flower beds. Most of our peonies came down from grandmother, the herbaceous kind that look like ...

Itoh peonies (or intersectional hybrids) have been around since the 1940s but until recently, these crosses were extremely difficult to find and you could expect to pay over $1,000 for one. Now, they ...

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 ...

I never thought anything would replace allium as the showiest flower in my May-into-June garden. But the Itoh peony ‘Bartzella’ (what an unattractive name for such a magnificent flower) has finally ...