My friend and former colleague had the pleasure of fall blooms on her yellow tree peony. Here's her story, along with a great tip. By Diana Colvin Surprise -- 'Kintoh,' a yellow tree peony in my ...

THE ordinary kind of peony is a relatively familiar garden flower, usually with large deep-red or pink flowers. The large flowers resemble cabbage roses and often hang down after heavy rain. The tree ...

Many gardeners consider peonies to be the royalty of the flower garden. Native to Eurasia, north Africa and parts of northwestern North America, including California, they include many species from ...

I have a yellow tree peony, which is about seven or eight years old. I have never pruned it because I was told that if I did I would lose the blooms for many years. Can I prune it? Yes, you can prune ...

It can't get much better than the scent of peonies filling your yard in spring. Renowned for producing large, open flowers, few plants offer such a vast range of forms and colors as peonies, from ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tree peonies are the Lamborghini of the horticultural world — flashy and outrageously expensive. I prefer hard lemonade to champagne, so I was never tempted ...

STEPHEN RYAN: One of the world's truly iconic flowers has to be the Tree Peony. Certainly the Chinese Emperors thought so. But to select one from the so many is almost impossible. I love them all and ...

BASALT – The gorgeous yellow peony flower shattered when summer arrived last week, but I have pictures to prove I didn’t imagine it. Three years ago, I succumbed to the lure of a peony described as ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Peonies are one of the most enduring garden perennials. They produce lush flower displays every spring. These cherished perennials come in a rainbow of colors. You can grow white, yellow, ...

* What it is: This is arguably the best of the so-called “Itoh hybrid” peonies, a difficult but beautiful cross of the tree peony and the herbaceous one that Japanese botanist Dr. Toichi Itoh pulled ...

Asiatic lilies are the hardiest and easiest to grow for Zone 3 gardens. Plan in full sun in a well-drained soil. Easter lilies are not hardy in Minnesota, so they will most likely not come back if ...