Peonies: My peonies are breaking dormancy!, 1 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
Very smooth, but blame me for getting us off thread by misidentifying a gernamium as a peony in the first place! But your hubbie is right. I was given a gift of, literally 40 plus geranium Bevan's Variety (which is not only gorgeous but highly recommended by our Chicago Botanic Garden) and they can go in sun or shade, be watered or no, and they shade out weeds - so...

Pam, you may be pleasantly surprised. The ridiculous snow was a blanket. I call it the Minnesota effect. They, in zone 4, can grow plants we can't in zones 5a through 6b, because they have reliable snow cover. I have tons of feverfew tetra strain breaking dormancy. It looks like 100% of what was there before (which is great, because it had spread and it's gorgeous). It goes with everything, and I usually lose half of it. I dug up some of this from my house (the first picture is from 2007!) but it was always in a protected area. This year it was cold as heck, and exposed, yet boom!

You may find the same treasures under your ice and snow.

And I do know what you mean about the second year show!