With their off-season blooms, Alaska’s growers can fetch $4 a flower, while Dutch growers who sell “during the glut of the season” in April and May can only charge 28 cents.

The promise of gold, oil and king crab has lured fortune seekers to Alaska for decades. But Alaska’s newest profit-making industry stems from a most unusual source: flowers. Specifically, peonies – ...

This has been quite a season for the flowers. From peonies to roses, delphiniums to trollius, sweet peas to ligularia (OK, I will stop), this summer our yards are overflowing with blossoms ...

Flower types include single, Japanese, anemone, semi-double, double and bomb-doubles. Double-flowered peony varieties, with blooms up to 25 centimetres across, are among the most popular.

These seeds should produce white flowers, but a part of the rhizome certainly will. In any case, I don’t think Alaska’s fireweed is going away. These are tough plants, just like Alaskans.

This spring and summer sure are drastically different than last year’s. Brrrr. I wish there had been a happy medium between the two summers. It has definitely affected what we can harvest and ...

Alaska is home to 200 commercial peony farmers, clustered in the three hot spots around its center and south-central coast. ... There were no flowers or leaves on the plants yet, ...