Re: Slightly off-topic: Tree peonies


>     My tree peony is really scraggly, with lots of bare stem. Can it be
>cut back to the ground? I think that this month's Horticulture is about
>tree peonies, but I can't find my copy.
>
>Janet

The May issue of Horticulture doesn't address pruning, unfortunately. 
I do note that my plants do put out smaller shoots from the crown of 
the plant.   I have also heard that some plants of tree peony are 
grafted upon the rootstock of the non-woody kind, so be aware that 
sprouts coming from the base of the plant might be of the herbaceous 
type.  This should be rather easy to tell from the type of foliage.



-- 
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@execpc.com


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