by Marde Ross | Nov 15, 2011 | Gardening Tips for Daffodils, Tulips, Peonies & Naturalizing Bulbs, Saffron Crocus - Crocus Sativus
Most crocus require cold to bloom prolifically and beautifully each year. But there is another crocus which has been around for a long time and which has much different needs and conditions to produce both beauty and a useful product – that expensive spice,...
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...
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