A recent field to vase dinner and tour at Scenic Place Peonies in Homer helped to highlight the state of the area’s peony industry today.
The dinner tour was one of several events presented by Certified American Grown Flowers around the country this year. The pop up gatherings are meant to highlight the connection between flowers and agriculture “as part of America’s floral landscape,” according to a release about the event.
Peonies have had a short and relatively variable history in Alaska. Another Homer resident, Rita Jo Shoultz, opened the state’s very first peony farm, Alaska Perfect Peony, in 2006 after being approached by a professor from Fairbanks, who had been studying the potential growing season for peonies in Alaska.
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