Tag: baby tree peonies

Teenage Tree Peonies Update

I almost wrote ‘baby tree peonies’ for the title, but of course they aren’t babies anymore! It’s been four years since the seeds that were sown in 2016 germinated the following year; I wonder what age that is in Tree Peony Years? Last year of high school/freshman in college?? At the end of August 2020…

An Ounce of Prevention, and a Garden Mini-Drama

Last week I noticed that my baby tree peonies were coming close to nudging the top third of my horizontal chickenwire cloche, so it was clearly time to think about switching to a vertical orientation. But in that aspect the bottom section would no longer cover the two outlying seedlings on the righthand side. How…