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How to Grow Peonies From Seed

If you’re like me, you deadhead your peonies (spp. and hybrids) right after they bloom to keep the plants neater, so you may never have noticed them setting seed. And they don’t regularly volunteer, or produce abundant seedlings, like other perennials do. One year when I got behind on my garden work and found seed pods splitting open on a favorite peony (Empress Wu’s Yellow at left), I decided to see if I could grow the shiny,

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