Blooms can be 10 inches across on plants about three feet tall. They bloom in mid-spring and may grow in a large pot, but thrive best as a small-shrub border or in a garden, in partial shade or full ...

The author notes that hydrangeas, which are perennial everywhere, are noted for being pink or red growing in alkaline soil such as our own, blue on acidic soil, and purple on “neutral to slightly” I ...

An Itoh peony, a yellow one, would add some variety to the colors in the flower beds. Bartzella popped up in a nursery, and the cost — around $30 — seemed well worth it, ...

Itoh peonies detest being moved – so make sure you situate your peony in the right spot from the start. And don’t think about dividing them in a few years – they rarely survive it.

Itoh peonies were introduced in the late 1960s, and recent breeding work has brought us many new commercial varieties. These peonies are not cheap, but they are well worth the investment — they ...

And thus the Itoh peony was born. See also: Redbuds - what’s old is new again True to Itoh’s original goals, today’s Itoh peonies bear the best genes of both parents.

July is a great month for blossoms − on trees, shrubs and perennials. Here are a few of Henry Homeyer's favorite July plants.

Itoh peonies are a hybrid of herbaceous and tree peonies; they die back to the ground but their flowers are large like tree peonies. All peonies range in height from two to six feet tall ...

These peonies are named for Toichi Itoh, the first hybridizer to successfully cross a tree peony with an herbaceous peony in the 1940s. Picking a peony There are many fabulous Itohs to choose from.

Itoh peonies are also known as intersectionals, and are hybrids between tree and herbaceous peonies. The first intersectional was introduced in Japan in 1940 by Toichi Itoh, who worked for many ...

Toichi Itoh’s life was spent trying to take the best elements of each parent peony to create a Queen of Peonies. Unfortunately, he died in 1956, eight years before the crosses he developed were ...

I never thought anything would replace allium as the showiest flower in my May-into-June garden. But the Itoh peony ‘Bartzella’ (what an unattractive name for such a magnificent flower) has ...