{"id":9009,"date":"2020-10-18T21:20:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T21:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2020-10-18T22:06:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T22:06:35","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-271-paeonia-lactiflora-cultivars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/18\/plant-a-day-2020-day-271-paeonia-lactiflora-cultivars\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 271) Paeonia lactiflora cultivars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Herbaceous peonies are considered easy and tough, but my first attempt at growing them failed miserably. A friend gave me some starts as a thank you gift many years ago. They survived for many years, but did not thrive. They weren\u2019t in full sun and I think that caused their ultimate demise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years ago, I decided to try again. I ordered a half dozen hybrids from Gilbert H. Wild and planted them in the memory garden. I wasn\u2019t sure what to expect. But despite competing with the huge Douglas fir tree for water and nutrients, the peonies have done well and two of them actually bloomed this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flowers are a little too double for me, but they are showy and I like peony leaves as much as the flowers. They are very different, so they stand out all the time, but especially in the autumn when they color up beautifully before they drop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My plans for these plants are to keep feeding them and watering them as much as I can. I\u2019m anxious for the other cultivars to bloom\u2013I think there are a few single-flowered types, which I really love.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Herbaceous peonies are considered easy and tough, but my first attempt at growing them failed miserably. A friend gave me some starts as a thank you gift many years ago. They survived for many years, but did not thrive. They weren\u2019t in full sun and I think that caused their ultimate demise. Two years ago, … Continue reading Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 271) Paeonia lactiflora cultivars<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9017,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}