Tag: tree peonies

Catching Up with the Baby Tree Peonies

It’s been more than a year since I last reported on my seed-grown baby tree peonies that made their surprise appearance in May 2017 …. shame on me, and I am appropriately red-faced! My “helicopter Peony Mom” post was uploaded a month later, and followed up with a mini-drama during the ensuing winter (February 2018.)…

Daytrip to Cricket Hill Garden Peony Nursery

On the spur of the moment last Saturday I decided to take a roadtrip to Cricket Hill Garden in Thomaston, Connecticut (about a 2.5- to 3-hour drive each way.)  Although the majority of their tree peonies are over by early June, I knew it was one of those things where if I didn’t go now…

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…