Tag: Paeonia rockii

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…

Unexpectedly, I’m Now the Stepmother of Seven….

….baby tree peonies, that is! Which only goes to prove a bunch of old gardening adages about not giving up on Mother Nature, I suppose… at least where tree peonies are concerned, anyhow. Almost two years ago I ordered some P. rockii seeds from Cricket Hill Nursery in Connecticut. Because I’m house-hunting, my intent was…