Re: Tree Peony
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Tree Peony
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 08:36:26 EDT
In a message dated 6/8/99 3:41:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mtalt@clark.net
writes:
<< Seems to me I read recently - cannot remember where - that tree peonies
were often grafted onto herbaceous peony rootstocks for faster propagation,
but that was the only reason >>
===>Marge, seems to me that another reason is to make the stock true to the
parent plant. As you said, the tree peony raised from seed might not have
the same flower (color, especially) as the parent plant.
Bill Lee
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