Best Peony Cultivars

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Are all three peony types suited for a cut flower farm? And what are the best cultivars to grow – aka, the guaranteed winners? Karen of Midsommar Farm knows which are more successful, and most beloved. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3ubZln2 Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3sz7rp5 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3My1DTS EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3FPm373 Learn More: 11 Tips For Beautiful Peony Blooms This Season Connect With Karen Gesa: Karen Gesa (pronounced Jessa) is the owner of Midsommar Farm, a part-time 1/2 acre peony farm in northern Virginia. Karen is passionate about spreading the word about this business model as she's found it to be a great income with minimal investment of time, money, space, and know-how. Or, if you're not interested in selling, how to create a private peony cutting garden and fill your home with fresh bouquets all spring. Instagram Facebook Website Karen’s Book Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Pini Week here on the Epic Gardening Podcast, now known as The Beat.
0:18.2	I'm still getting used to the new name of the podcast guys.
0:20.5	We have Karen Jessa back on the show, the owner of Midsummer Farm, which of course is a part-time half-acre peony farm in Virginia.
0:28.0	So we've talked Karen about the setup and why you might want to do this.
0:32.0	Maybe you're convinced at this point and you need to know, okay, well, I actually need to know about peonies.
0:37.0	I need not educate myself on this plant.
0:40.0	So are there different types much like a tomato where you've got your determinants
0:44.2	your indeterminates obviously there's cult of ours as well which we'll get into but
0:47.6	as far as like the archetypes of types of peonies what is the breakdown there?
0:52.2	Yeah there are three main types of peonies, what is the breakdown there?
0:53.0	Yeah, there are three main types.
0:56.0	Urbaceous is what most people are familiar with.
0:59.0	That's typically the ones that you're going to see in your grandmother's garden kind of deal.
1:03.6	But then there's also tree peony which actually have like a woody bark on them and
1:08.8	they get quite a bit taller and the flowers are quite a bit bigger, really beautiful, but the vase life is not good at all on tree peony.
1:18.2	And then there's an intersectional peony, which is a cross between tree and herbaceous.
1:26.3	Those some of them do well as cut flowers but for the most part
1:30.3	we're looking at the herbaceous column.
1:33.0	I see.
1:34.0	So you're not growing much tree peony, for example, at the farm.
1:39.0	Well, I did until I realized they weren't really appropriate.
1:42.0	That was one of my lessons learned the hard way.
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