Peonies are one of the most beautiful plants you can grow in your garden. They provide a long season of color and showy flowers that will impress all who see them. However, they are not easy to grow! These finicky plants require lots of attention and care if they are going to thrive in your landscape. If you don’t give them what they need, they could have problems like poor flowering or even death.
Use our in-depth guides down below to help you learn how to successfully plant, grow, and care for peonies along with other helpful tips to prevent pest and disease problems, find fertilization requirements, and more! Happy gardening!
For vibrant color from late spring to early summer, fill your garden beds and borders with the luscious blossoms of perennial peony. Available in shades of pink, purple, red, white, and yellow, these gorgeous flowers are an ornamental highlight. Learn how to plant and grow peonies in this guide. Read more now.
The Paeonia genus contains flowers native to Asia, Europe, and North America. There are numerous species and cultivars with different growth habits, dimensions, and colors. Discover exciting options for beds, borders, and containers, in this informative guide to the different types of peonies. Read more now.
Are you yearning for a pink color scheme in your garden? You can’t do better than Barbie, blush, fuchsia, coral, rose, or salmon peony flowers to bring in the perfect pink hue to your beds and borders. Learn about 41 of the best pink peony varieties, including Itoh and herbaceous options in this guide. Read more now.
The sumptuous beauty of white peonies is hard to beat as a cut flower for a vase or in a wedding bouquet. From snow white to buttery cream to some with golden hearts, these sumptuous flowers bring understated elegance to beds and borders. Learn about 13 of the best white peony varieties to grow at home. Read more now.
Saw a peony in a neighbor’s yard that you fell in love with? Have a plant in your garden that you’d like to make more of? Knowing how to propagate peonies is a useful skill to have in order to replicate plants that you want more of. Learn how to make more peonies using seeds or by dividing an existing plant.
Tree peonies, also known as woody peonies, are diverse perennial shrubs originating from China. First hybridized 1,500 years ago, these blooming beauties have been slowly making their way into gardens ever since. In this guide we’ll cover the basics of growing and caring for these beautiful spring-blooming shrubs.
Peonies are the shooting stars of the flower world, their ravishing blooms briefly lighting up the garden with pure elegance. But sometimes, you may see all your promising buds shrivel into nothing. Here are 9 reasons why your peonies bud but don’t bloom, with simple steps that may help them to shine next spring.
If you are growing peonies you’ll need to know how to care for them over the cold winter months. Peony plants require a period of dormancy and chilling hours to bloom again next season. So how do you prepare your plants for winter? Learn all about winter care for peonies in this guide. Read more now.