Name: Lily Martagon Du Page County Illinois (Zone 5a)
I purchased two pots of tree peonies on clearance at my local nursery. One of them has herbaceous peony stems that grew with it so I did a little investigation. I washed the roots and found out that there were a lot of eyes growing in it. I understand that tree peonies are grafted and grow on 'nurse' herbaceous peony roots. I think that the herbaceous peony is taking over and eventually the tree peony will die as one of the woody stems is already dead. What do you think? Should I just leave it alone and let mother nature take care of it or should I do an intervention?
