Where are the spring Blooms?

From the garden
  • Where are the spring Blooms?
    Where are the spring Blooms?
  • FOR PERFECT PEONIES set roots with buds into a shallow bed not more than 1 inch depth. Roots placed too deeply may produce shoots the next season but will fail to bloom. These need to be replanted. After moving a peony expect it to take several years to bloom. | iSTOCK PHOTO
    FOR PERFECT PEONIES set roots with buds into a shallow bed not more than 1 inch depth. Roots placed too deeply may produce shoots the next season but will fail to bloom. These need to be replanted. After moving a peony expect it to take several years to bloom. | iSTOCK PHOTO
    CUISINE & CULTUREELLEN PEFFLEYSpring blooms open the gardening year—cheerful yellow daffodils, soft orange and white jonquils, rainbow colors of iris, fragrant purple hyacinths, and deep pink peonies.How disappointing it is when healthy green shoots come up and we wait and wait—but no blooms follow, only green tops....

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