by Marde Ross | Jan 18, 2012 | Gardening Tips for Daffodils, Tulips, Peonies & Naturalizing Bulbs
What are bulbs and corms? Everyone is familiar with the basic and most popular bulbs like tulips and daffodils which are true bulbs, but corms are important and popular as well. Anemones, ranunculous, gladiolus and crocus are corms. A corm is defined as an swollen,...
by Marde Ross | Nov 3, 2011 | Peonies
Once the peonies have been divided, they can be replanted. I usually plant them about one foot apart but you might like to have them farther apart or scattered among roses or in perennial beds. We dig down about one foot and mix in a little peat moss to the dirt. In...
by Marde Ross | Nov 3, 2011 | Peonies
In California, the tools for dividing peonies are not as heavy duty as those for hacking apart small tree trunk sized peony roots! Earlier in my blog is a picture of tools used in colder climates where the clumps grow to be the size of coffee tables and those tools...
by Marde Ross | Jun 17, 2011 | Peonies
There are four types of peonies and they vary by shape. The progression towards fullness involves the stamens, anthers, carpels increasing in size from a single row of petals to complete fullness. The single peony has a row of petals surrounding a center with two...
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