Re: Help with peonies


You got 'em, just need an address.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Bell" <silverhawk@flash.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Help with peonies


> OH!!! PICK ME.  I'll take some!  Woo Hoo.
>
> Jess
>
> "Richard T. Apking" <richa@midlands.net> wrote:
> I'm sure this sounds really stupid, but I'm going to continue anyway.
>
> I've had some of your problems with peonies, and I solved the
> hail,rainstorm,beat the petals off the plants thing by erecting a
temporary
> hoop-house over my peonies, 2 one-plant-wide beds each about 60 feet long.
> This project took about a half day the first time, and just a couple hours
> the next 8 times.
>
> Gonna have to change some, because I'm dividing them this fall, and if I
> replant all the divisions, the beds will increase at least four-fold. Sooo
> I'm gonna be in the rather unenviable position of having a surplus of
> tubers, any takers?
>
> BTW they are pink with white centers and doubles.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From:
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Help with peonies
>
>
> > In a message dated 9/1/2004 3:11:35 AM Central Standard Time,
> mtalt@hort.net
> > writes:
> >
> > Where I am, only the early peonies have much chance. Even then, the
> > large, luscious doubles often turn into sodden brown messes because
> > we invariably have major rain just as they come into bloom...every
> > durn year!
> >
> >
> >
> > Now isn't that the sad truth! I don't know why I get excited every year
> > when their buds are ready to burst. I ought to know a severe thunder
> storm
> > (likely with hail) is just around the corner. :-)
> >
> > zem
> > zone 7
> > West TN
> >
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