Peony - the amazing flowering plant : arise from the DEAD !

Arise from the dead ! !  Full Blooming beautiful peonies in late spring to summer

During Fall the entire plant looks dead - withers and dries up to almost nothing !  Most people would throw them away and be discarded. However, the root tubers  are still alive. Remove all dead branches, twigs, leaves and let it sleep through winter.  Like "hibernation" !!! They will surprise you when they wake up and start growing at a fast pace during spring time to catch up lost time. 

In early spring - it arises from the dead ! You can watch it grows by the day....and in less than a week, the entire plant  are full of luscious green leaves and marble size buds!

Flowering buds are forming all over the plant, awaiting for Easter and early May to  start producing  the attractive large blooms ! This is the hardy type that will last for years.  They are mentioned in ancient China as the most beautiful flowers, gracious and enormously large in size.

We have found that growing them in pots are easier to maintain than planting them in the soil. We have lost quite a few by planting in the soil. When they are dormant in " hibernation" , they look so dead that our "gardener " who only mows and blows the yard would throw them away for good ! Or they simply disappear under ground and may start to sprout with little notice.  Growing in pots, would avoid such hazards.