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.

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.

Peonies—those gorgeous, pastel flowers that can bloom as big as dinner plates—are grown all over the world, but there’s only one place where they open up in July. While speaking at a ...

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 ...

Jeff’s Alaska Garden Calendar Alaska Master Gardeners’ Annual Conference: April 7-8 and open to the public in Anchorage this year. Tickets for the Friday night party at the Nave are $50.

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 ...