What's more, tree peonies tolerate part shade, making them ideal for darker plots. Here, I reveal how to grow a tree peony in pots, with expert advice from a peony grower based in Oregon.

(Less true now that most are sold in ready-to-plant pots rather than bare-root.) Tree peonies are Asian cousins of herbaceous ones, and they are as elegant as a Chinese watercolour.

Courtesy of Carol T. Bradford This tree peony, 'High Noon,' hybridized by Professor A. P. Saunders of Hamilton College more than 50 years ago, blooms in late May with columbines and the late tulips.

If you want to plant some peonies pick them out now so you can see the colors of the blooms. For many years I have had a tree peony in my garden. It is in the front of my house in a garden that we ...

Herbaceous peonies don’t tend to bloom if they are planted any deeper than they came out of the pot. Tree peonies, on the other hand, should be planted considerably deeper, because they’re ...

Q: I have a Japanese tree peony in a large pot. It seems to be doing fine, but I have noticed some unusual new growth at the base of the plant. The leaves are more red than the other foliage on ...

A 10-year-old tree peony is still a seedling, according to experts, and plants can bloom for years. ... After working the soil, I planted it the same depth as the pot, watered and mulched.

The shrub is smaller than most tree peony varieties. And when compared with other tree peonies, with their big, showy, look-at-me blossoms, this one holds its buds tight within the foliage, almost ...