Why are the intersectional hybrid peonies selling at such a varied degree of pricing?
Thank you for asking!!! First of all, we knew this was coming due to the tissue culture (“TC”) cloned plants that are being imported into the US. Many different catalogs, nurseries and garden centers are beginning to sell these test tube plants. We bought 100 of these TC peonies five years ago just to see what they would do. Out of those 100, we lost 20% of them and then found that some plants were not even true to name. This was especially disappointing after waiting four years for the first blooms to appear. It provided an educational example for many of our garden club tours and to us! Our old fashioned way of growing chemical- free plants were 2-3 years ahead of the TC plants. Also, we had the disdain task last fall of digging up some of the original TC plants only to find a tangled root mass of exorbitant waste. So much waste, in fact, that 80 to 90% of the roots had to be removed in order to get to the crown. With that much of a tangled mess, we should have left a few in the grou
