KENAI — They are the flowers carried in a bouquet at a sunny wedding. They can mark promises made, or the beginning of a happy future.
But these flowers, peonies, grow best in a state where the winter sun can linger for less than six hours a day and temperatures can drop to 20 degrees below.
“Out of the darkness of Alaska comes the bright brilliance of the peonies,” said Wayne Floyd, laughing and throwing his arms up.
Floyd, co-owner of Cool Cache Farms, said he is excited. In September he and his wife buried more than 2,000 peony roots on their farm in Nikiski and, when they mature, he expects they will produce a cash crop, he said.
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