Tree peonies - Deadhead above topmost leaf. Very early spring remove winter damaged stems and cut all stems to top healthy live eye or bud. Remove diseased flowers, buds, and stems by cutting back to healthy stems at any time. Use sterile utensils. Found on the Tulsa Master Gardener Pruning Guide.
Rodents such as rats, chipmunks, and mice will disperse peony seeds.
A peony is a spring blooming perennial plant. It comes in many colors but not blue. It is one of the most fragrant flowers.
Peonies are perennials. Single plants have been known to live over 100 years old.
Peony tree seeds are primarily dispersed through a process called gravity dispersal, where the seeds fall to the ground as the seed pods mature and split open. Additionally, animals can aid in their dispersal by inadvertently carrying the seeds away on their fur or consuming the fruits and excreting the seeds elsewhere. The seeds may also be spread by water runoff in their natural habitats. Overall, these methods help ensure that peony trees can propagate in various locations.
The scientific name of a peony is Paeonia.
The National Flower is the Peony
There are main three groups, rockii tree peony, Chinese tree peony and Jiangnan tree peony in China.
Peonies include both the tree peony and herbaceous peony. Tree peony includes: Chinese tree peony, paeonia rockii, Japanese tree peony and itoh peony. Peony is a deciduous shrub and a woody plant, while herbaceous peony is a tuberous and herbal plant. Tree Peony leaves are wide and the front side is slightly green or green yellow, but herbaceous peony leaves are narrow with both sides being black-green. The flowers of tree peony are are mostly single, while the flowers of herbaceous peony come at the top of branches and are multiple. The flowering periods are different: tree peony flowers early but herbaceous peony flowers late the two plants have a difference in flowering period of about 15 days. Despite the difference in flowering period between tree peony and herbaceous peony, the two types of peony have some similarities in growth habits and flower characteristics as well on one hand, herbaceous peony tolerates both cold and drought, has a strong adaptability, and is widely used in garden when planted together with tree peony, it becomes a cover of the short flowering period of its sister. On the other hand, herbaceous peony has particularities such as highly positioned and diverse stems, huge flowers, dark green leaves, long and straight stems, but it is also an excellent material for fresh cut flowers.
Tree peonies are best transplanted in fall or early spring when the plant is dormant.
Peony is the common name of the plant.
The tree peony or Paeonia suffruticosa originated in China over 1000 years ago.
In the Victorian language of flowers, peony was interpreted as bashfulness or sometimes as shame.
Rodents such as rats, chipmunks, and mice will disperse peony seeds.
A peony is a spring blooming perennial plant. It comes in many colors but not blue. It is one of the most fragrant flowers.
Scientific name of the Peony is Paeonia officinalis. It belongs to the plant family Paeoniaceae.
The pods that appear after flowering are the seed pods.
The peony, one of the National flowers of China, represented riches and prosperity there. In Western eyes it is the symbol of a 12th. wedding anniversary and in the language of flowers means good fortune & a happy marriage.