Darce I bought a lot of cheep 2-3 eye peonies when we moved here 3 yrs ago, as well as brining like a dozen potted plants with me. I began to get some nice flowers last year but this year should be magic. I have discoverd a problem with my plan to plant them in raised beds by my walkway. THose beds sink several inches each year and peonies don't like to have their roots disturbed. So it's a question of whether to add soil and try to lift them , or pile more soil around their roots and see it they grow above it. My other option is to plant them into the horrible hard clay soil that floods in winter, and is bone dry in summer. I don't think they will like that either. I do have a raised bench of land along the driveway coming down our hill and have planted it to young lilacs in all shades of color. I may try planting out the yung peonies that I have in raised beds to there, along the edge where the extra water will drain off down the driveway, but I doubt they will like the heavy clay. It sure would be pretty when they and the lilacs are in bloom! And I don't think deer eat peonies do they?
