Heidi,

Well, there has to be a reason for all the foliage that persists after bloom time, or else why would it stick around ?  Granted, the plant needs to stay healthy until it ripens it’s seeds in the fall, so perhaps that’s the main reason it hangs on.  But it’s also reasonable to think that it’s building up it’s food supplies for the next s…[Read more]

Simply Beauuuuuutiful! What an amazing culture! What amazing flowers! Not speaking chinese didn’t bother me at all; as we all know a picture can say more than a thousand words… This certainly made me WISH I could speak chinese, or that we had more contact with chinese-speaking friends, so we could find out more about the backgrounds of certain…[Read more]

Thank you for this post Bob! It seems quite logical that peonies (that are rather “slow growers”, but keep on going for decades), would go through this procedure of starting the development of new stems already on the year previous to their actual growth above ground. Thank you for calling our attention to that; I know I will certainly keep this…[Read more]