Especially for Memorial Day I present you with peonies. Double or single petal, creamy white with crimson flecks, rosy pink with lemon cream collars, fuschia with deep yellow staminodes, blushing pink, fully open or buds. All beautiful. They fill the area around the dining room table with the scent of spring.
I just read tonight that if you want to plant them it's best to do it in the fall. I will be searching between now and then for the best place to buy just the right ones for a spot in my garden. It think it would be best to buy local but I found a special peony nursery in Canada that it will be hard not to buy something from. I have been having the best time reviewing their catalogue.
Beautiful! The fushia one, with the yellow center is my favorite!
When I started reading your last paragraph, I thought you said "paint", and I couldn't figure out why you would need to wait until fall to "paint" the flowers. So funny. Planting does make more sense!
Posted by: Debbie J | 05/25/2015 at 10:18 PM
Gorgeous!
Posted by: jacki long | 05/26/2015 at 12:34 AM
Beautiful, beautiful! I love peonies and your new header is great.
Posted by: Janet | 05/26/2015 at 06:40 AM
Oh wow! A special peony nursery?? I wish you hadn't told me that. 😉
Posted by: Chris Oliveira | 05/26/2015 at 09:27 AM
If there's a more luscious flower, I don't know what it is. Peonies are more beautiful than roses, IMHO. Simply beautiful.
Posted by: Joan | 05/26/2015 at 01:30 PM
Breathtaking. Swoon... I had to leave my place in Idaho just as the peonies were starting. I had two dark fuschia ones to take to my Mom for Mother's Day.
Posted by: barbara | 05/27/2015 at 08:16 AM
Problem is that they take YEARS to bloom... I moved the garden 5 years ago, and they just NOW bloomed. Oh but they were lovely!!!! Pale pink ones. If you see ants swarming the buds, leave 'em! They tickle the buds to open or something...
Posted by: Peggy Fry | 05/27/2015 at 05:17 PM