Shade Gardening: Peonies, lilacs in partial shade, 1 by Brent_In_NoVa

Brent_In_NoVa wrote:
My mother gave me a bunch of plants one year and I planted what I thought was 3 lily-of-the-valley plants in a shady spot (gets probably 4 hours of morning sun and then no direct sun after that). Yep it turns out they were peonies. They tend to lean toward the sun but they have flowered well. The picture below was taken in 2004. In 2005 I staked them with tomato cages and they stood much more upright.

BTW, yes, you should space your peonies more than one foot apart!!

- Brent