im going back to the start

when I lived in MO, I had a peony plant that took at least 7 years to bloom. The soil in MO was not really soil it was clay so if you wanted to plant somehting you had to make the hole and then add dirt to that hole and then you added your plant just like if you were planting in a clay pot.

here now in IL I have not had to wait to see my plants get bigger and to see them bloom.
as you can see the bloom on this peony plant is breathtaking.