Comments on: species peonies, part 2

By: margaret

margaret — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:38:47 +0000

Welcome to Warren! Some days I wish for 40 by 60 (or for someone to take away my shovel privileges). I seem to have adopted a Manifest Destiny type of approach here and it’s way too big!

By: Warren Jacobson

Warren Jacobson — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:35:09 +0000

Just discovered your website and makes me nostalgic for the Berkshires and gardening there. I now gardening on a 40×60 plot with a house taking up far too much room as my garden expands I have been forced to donate much to the public park close to my house, a sort of guerilla gardening

By: margaret

margaret — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:45:22 +0000

@Brent: I love these questions, because it makes me keep learning. Turns out from several cooperative extension reference sites that I now know that crabapple is a salt-sensitive tree. I have no personal experience with this, but it was so noted in several university sources. Hmmm….
@Diana: Welcome! Yes, Lauren is a great gardener and a great writer, so knowledgeable and with such a strong eye. As for the baby peonies, I’d just say they don’t seem to want to bake in the sun when they are getting going, and I keep them a little sheltered and watch out not to dry them out, like any seedling at first. Otherwise, I’ve just tucked them in and that was that, all systems go. See you soon again I hope.