{"id":137307,"date":"2023-06-09T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/to-peony-or-not-to-peony-are-these-blowsy-beauties-worth-the-space\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T10:08:11","slug":"to-peony-or-not-to-peony-are-these-blowsy-beauties-worth-the-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/to-peony-or-not-to-peony-are-these-blowsy-beauties-worth-the-space\/","title":{"rendered":"To peony or not to peony: are these blowsy beauties worth the space?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe flowers are fabulous, the plants surprisingly hardy, but I\u2019ve donated mine to a friend who has larger bedsWhen I found out I was moving to a flat with a garden of its own \u2013 the first I had access to as an adult \u2013 I celebrated by ordering bare-root peonies, variety \u2018Coral Charm\u2019. This was in July. They wouldn\u2019t be delivered until October, wouldn\u2019t emerge from the earth that winter and possibly, I read, might not bloom at all the next spring.Nevertheless, I was determined: my balcony had offered neither the sunshine nor space to grow peonies. Gaining ground gave me both. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The flowers are fabulous, the plants surprisingly hardy, but I\u2019ve donated mine to a friend...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-zID","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":126689,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pee-for-the-peonies-researchers-say-urine-fertilizers-encourage-blooms-and-theres-never-a-shortage\/","url_meta":{"origin":137307,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Pee for the peonies\u2019: researchers say urine fertilizers encourage blooms \u2013 and there\u2019s never a shortage","date":"May 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r But environmental engineering professors Nancy Love and Krista Wigginton ask garden visitors not to drop their drawersA pair of University of Michigan researchers are putting the \u201cpee\u201d in peony. 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