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Peonies are a growing Alaska export. In 2015, peony growers shipped more than 50,000 stems from Alaska, and Gov. Bill Walker recently declared July to be Alaska Peony Month for the second year in ...

Alaska is one of the only places in the world where peony flowers grow in the summer months. But the unusually cold, wet weather this year is delaying the blooms by weeks.

Once upon a time a scientist in Fairbanks wondered out loud about an idea that seemed fantastical at the time. Why not grow flowers in Alaska, put them on jet planes -- we're one of the world's ...

Alaska’s peony industry is turning 25 this year. The peony farming gold rush in Alaska started because the flowers garnered a high price per stem due to when they bloom — here in Alaska in ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Brad Fluetsch has been growing peonies at his home in North Douglas since 1992, and they do really well. So well, people have asked to buy them. "We've turned down people ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Brad Fluetsch has been growing peonies at his home in North Douglas since 1992 and they do really well. So well, people have asked to buy them.

In New England or Alaska, Ms. Gagan said, ... Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: For Peony Season, Think Beyond Pink and White. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper ...

Peonies have had a short and relatively variable history in Alaska. Another Homer resident, Rita Jo Shoultz, opened the state’s very first peony farm, Alaska Perfect Peony, in 2006 after being ...

White peony, technically named Paeonia lactiflora Pall, is a flowering plant native to East Asia. It grows in many parts of the world, including China, Mongolia, and Siberia.

Alaska has about 200 commercial peony growers, many of which started producing about a dozen years ago. Late-blooming peony buds at the Mt. McKinley Peonies farm near Willow on July 7, 2023. (Tim ...

In New England or Alaska, Gagan said, planting them 2 inches deep is fine. In New Jersey, she goes just 1 inch down. A half-inch is plenty at the southern reach of their growing range, in Zone 8 ...