{"id":297,"date":"2010-10-09T08:44:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T12:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-10-12T01:03:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T05:03:27","slug":"new-intersectional-peonies-deserve-a-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/10\/09\/new-intersectional-peonies-deserve-a-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"New Intersectional Peonies Deserve A Wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tree_peony.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-298\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"Peony\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tree_peony-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Itoh or Intersectional Hybrid Peonies (<em>Paeonia spp<\/em>.) represent a  huge breakthrough in tissue culture propagation. Inherited from the  tree peony is attractive dissected foliage. They are extremely winter  hardy like the herbaceous types.<\/p>\n<p>Plants grow two to three  feet tall and wide. Strong sturdy stems support the huge flowers which  size up to 10&#8243; across. Flowers are single, semi-double or double, and  available in a wide range of colors including yellow. Flowers stand  upright even in heavy rain and require no staking. Bloom time is longer  due to additional flowers being produced on side shoots.<\/p>\n<p>Peonies  are long-lived, growing in the same location for decades. They need to  be properly nourished annually. Peonies prefer full to part sun (minimum  of 6 hours per day), average moisture and well-drained soil which is  enriched with compost or mulch annually.<\/p>\n<p>Bare-root peonies should  only be planted in the fall as this coincides with the time that their  tubers develop most of their feeder roots. Container-grown peonies can  be planted at any time. Itoh hybrids demonstrate good resistance to  peony blight (<em>Botrytis paeoniae<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Proper planting depth  is very important for peonies. The crown should be planted 1\u00bd &#8211; 2 inches  below soil level. If the eyes have already begun to grow, the new  growth may be set slightly above the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Itoh peonies are now available through e-commerce nurseries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itoh or Intersectional Hybrid Peonies (Paeonia spp.) represent a huge breakthrough in tissue culture propagation. Inherited from the tree peony is attractive dissected foliage. They are extremely winter hardy like the herbaceous types. Plants grow two to three feet tall and wide. Strong sturdy stems support the huge flowers which size up to 10&#8243; across. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[602,621],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}