Some garden tools I love: Peony Flowers! Peonies are easily one of my favorite plants in the garden. Their flowers may not last a long time but they simply can't be beat! But have you heard of Itoh ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Itoh peonies, with their huge flowers, unique colors, and sturdy stems are a new development in the gardening world. They are the result of a genetic cross between herbaceous peonies and woody (tree) ...

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 ...

Serious gardeners love a challenge, especially when it comes to zones, frost, temperatures and all that boring technical stuff. Tell a serious plant lover that you can’t grow one, and they’ll buy two.

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include lenten rose, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. The peony ...