BASALT – The gorgeous yellow peony flower shattered when summer arrived last week, but I have pictures to prove I didn’t imagine it. Three years ago, I succumbed to the lure of a peony described as ...

* What it is: This is arguably the best of the so-called “Itoh hybrid” peonies, a difficult but beautiful cross of the tree peony and the herbaceous one that Japanese botanist Dr. Toichi Itoh pulled ...

Asiatic lilies are the hardiest and easiest to grow for Zone 3 gardens. Plan in full sun in a well-drained soil. Easter lilies are not hardy in Minnesota, so they will most likely not come back if ...

Known as “the floral symbol of China, the state flower of Indiana, and the 12th anniversary flower,” this versatile perennial blossoms into lush flowers between late spring and early summer and, if ...

Where: 4010 E. Jamieson Road, located southeast of Spokane on the Palouse highway. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Call ...

Her name is Bartzella, and she is something of a novelty and relative newcomer in the world of peonies. She definitely stands out among the other peonies in the Smithsonian’s Mary Livingston Ripley ...

The scent of peonies immediately takes me back to my childhood home in Western North Carolina and my mother's garden. Her bed of peonies was a source of pride and joy every spring. Those delicate ...

AS LONG AS there have been peonies, breeders have been frustrated because no one could figure out a way to cross a tree peony with an herbaceous one. Then, in 1948, after thousands of attempts, Toichi ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A plant named by a god for Colorado gardenscapes? Yes, because legend says the lovely peony received its name from Paean, the Greek god of medicine, who ...

Gardeners rarely bicker among themselves. It's just not part of the gardening theme. But ask people the correct way to pronounce peony, and you get as close to raucous as gardeners can get. With the ...