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 ...

Some of our peonies march on into June, showing off, spreading fragrance and adding delight to the flower beds. Most of our peonies came down from grandmother, the herbaceous kind that look like ...

I love Itoh Peonies because they produce the iconic peony flowers that I adore, but with a stronger, woodier framework that ...

IT WAS A peony rant that made me a fan of garden writer Henry Mitchell. I think it was in his book “The Essential Earthman” that The Washington Post columnist took on a reader’s lament that peonies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mkovalevskaya / Getty Images There are three kinds of peonies—herbaceous, tree, and intersectional—that have different care needs ...

With today’s rush to get new garden plant varieties to market, it will come as no surprise to any gardener that sometimes the evaluation of those new introductions doesn’t necessarily support the ...

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 years ...

In the late 1940s, amid the rubble of the Second World War, Dr Toichi Itoh was quietly working away to make the world a more beautiful place. With a lifelong fascination for one of the most iconic ...

Why do we want what we don’t have? We want curly hair if we have straight. We want a view when we live in the flats. We want peonies if we garden in Southern California while gardeners in other places ...

We are blessed with a long growing season in the coastal Bay Area, but sometimes our good fortune is also our bad luck. Just ask peony lovers, and there are many, who have tried to get herbaceous ...

This article was published 11/06/2011 (5394 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. My grandmother loved her peonies. Every spring, just as the last of the winter snow vanished and ...

There are few flowers with such a long breeding history as peonies, which were first cultivated in China during the Ming Dynasty 3900 years ago. Thanks to extensive breeding over the centuries, we now ...