Peonies and Rhubarb
We added a couple of other plants to the flower gardens last weekend. My wife loves peonies so we bought a couple of peony roots to plant. We actually had a few of these plants at our last home in Massachusetts so it was only natural to try to grow some more. Peonies like a well drained soil with a pH of around 6.5 to 7.0 (we’ll need to use some extra lime to sweeten the soil as our soil is quite acidic) and a sunny location. The flowers on these plants are quite heavy when they bloom so it’s a good idea to use some dowels or stakes to prop up the plants to keep them from falling over due to the weight of the flower.
The other thing we planted last weekend was rhubarb. I grew up with several rhubarb plants in our yard and I used to love having strawberry rhubarb pies during the summer. Rhubarb is a perennial that produces a fleshy stalk that is used in pies or eaten with sugar. One note of caution, the leaves of rhubarb are toxic. Rhubarb leaves contain oxalic acid, a corrosive and nephrotoxic acid that is present in many plants. Rhubarb also like a pH of about 6.0 to 6.8. Rhubarb also requires generous amounts of fertilizer to grow well.
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