Tree peonies have long been the flowers of nobility in the Orient and have gotten a much undeserved reputation in the United States as a plant that is difficult to grow.  The plants do take time to mature, but may live for many hundreds of years given proper care.   Flowers often appear other-worldy due to their incredible size and sometimes crepe paper-like texture.  Tree peonies are not trees, but do have persistent woody stems that may attain heights of 2 feet to over 8 feet (this will depend on the cultivar and/or location of planting).  The plants provide 4 seasons of interest and in my opinion should be more widely grown in our northern gardens.  If I had but one small space to plant a garden, this plant would be the choice!

Solaris Farms sells plants that we think are the best performers and most unique tree peonies available.  Our smaller offerings are generally two to three year old plants.  Our larger offerings can range in age from 3 to 6 year plants.  Once our tree peonies have surpassed the seventh year, they are typically too large to move without severe damage or setback and are no longer of saleable size.     Customers find that our three year and four year stock are usually larger than most other nurseries large offerings.  Plants grown in our Wisconsin fields tend to grow quickly and produce heavy stems and many below ground level buds.

Nearly all of our offerings were plants grafted at Solaris Farms and are of excellent quality.  At the time of shipping we will remove the nurse root at the graft, if sufficient tree peony roots have grown.  If the herbaceous peony understock remains, the plant will do equally as well in our experience.  After three years, or so, it may be beneficial to dig the plant back up and remove the nurse root and allow the tree peony to be an 'own root plant'.  Some of the tree peonies we sell are division stock and will need no attention at time of shipping.  These peonies will be marked with a zip tie that indicates approximate planting depth, so you need not worry about this (don't be surprised to see that the tie is well above the root system on a branch-tree peony and they do very well planted deeply).

Plants listed as small are generally one very stocky stem, select plants are generally large stocky stem(s),  Solaris Premium plants will likely be multiple stems or very heavy single stems with new shoots in development and have grown tree peony roots.  All plants we offer are not the same spindly material you find at local box stores or potted at nurseries, but are very vigorous and healthy plants with large stores of energy.  Please note that smaller plants generally establish more quickly and larger plants take an extra year to become established.  Please see our Peony Culture and FAQ's page for planting instruction and cultural instructions.

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