Peonies

How are yours looking?

Got a nice surprise today when I saw they were doing so well

 

Good grief, they're coming along nicely. Mine are just popping out of the soil. And i daren't uncover the peony trees yet. You must live in a warmer climate to me.

 

You lucky thing you! mine are just starting to shoot out of the ground. What colour are they? mine are pink.
MEF750

 

Hi compostee, I think we might be a little warmer. It never occured to me to cover the tree peonies. They are in full leaf already, I will take a pic tomorrow :D

I have the fancy names written down somewhere, but its enough to know that in the peony bed there are pink, white and reds.

 

Love Peonies, Babe. But aren't they these wondrous plants that you admire emerging and then go on holiday in June for two weeks and missed the blooms and their beauty?

I almost cried.

Must admit, that was a long time ago.

 

They are early though to summer flowering, but what you say is true if you only have one variety. They come early and give good foliage the whole summer into late autumn.

 

Mine are June bloomers but I only have the common red one. They do well here providing there's not too much wind and rain to wreck the flowers. They are showing but no where near as advanced as yours BM.

This was taken 9th. June last year.

 

Nice frogesque, I think they are cracking plants ! Mine are well protected but complained about the shade last year. I have thinned the tree they grow under and so far even with less branch shade they seem much happier.

My june bloom



[ 26. March 2007, 11:09 PM: Message edited by: Banana Man ]

 

That is absolutely beautiful, frogesque! A "to die for" bloom.

But as you say, as I did, June! I went away .. actually here to Portugal .. and when I went back ...

 

That's a cracker BM - wouldn't mind cadging a tuber if you ever get round to dividing them.

LoL: Do they grow in Portugal or is it too hot and dry for them?

 

Mine are just poking through the ground too, my "bowl of beauty" didn't do too well last year, the blooms were quite small and they are supposed to be quite big; but I did as I think you told me BM and fed them; so I'm hoping they will be better this year.

My red ones are fine maybe they are not so delicate...

 

My tree peonies today. Only little jobs, but it still didn't occur to me to protect them ?





I can't believe the bud on this regular one already !

 

Aaaaah, peonies
Yours look great bananaman.
I have one in between mine and my neighbour's garden. There's a fence in between and I have the side it shades at this time of year, it's amazing how much further on the bit of peony on her side is, probably about a foot high whereas my side is only just unfurling the first leaves (no buds yet either side though!) I moved into my house mid-may last year and the peony was out then, it's a gorgeous red one right by the front door (probably the only bit of garden you could actually see at that point) and will always remind me of the combined joy and terror of picking up the keys to the first house I ever owned :D

 

I love peonies - partly for sentimental reasons, partly because they have such lovely flowers.....

The Tree Peonies are amazingly hardy - think they're from China, aren't they? I first realised how tough they were when I spent a day doing some voluntary gardening at Branklyn Garden in Perth, a NTS garden, where they have a few specimen trees, with loads and loads of youngsters all round them, and even more seeds lying around, some of them sprouting, some nibbled by mice..... they can cope with this country, no prob! And if they can cope with Scotland, they can certainly cope with the south of England - unless they can't cope with the warmth?? :rolleyes: