More Spring rains…
A quick garden view…
Peonies bent low in their garden beds…
The daisies underfoot are egigeron…the “Santa Barbara Daisy” …
easy growers that find their own way through the garden borders.
The blooms are so heavy with rain that I’ve
decided to clip a dozen or so peonies to bring inside…
Kansas, Sarah Bernhardt, and Vivid Rose blooms…
Have water in the bucket before I clip…
anything to extend the blooms!
Will re-cut the stems underwater once inside…
Keep them in a cool place…out of the sun…
In the twenty years since I’ve designed and planted and tended
this garden…this is the latest that the peonies have bloomed!
A very, very cool, wet, and late Spring!
pretty, one of my fav. flowers and I love the Sarah Bernhardt
One of my favourites! They look beautiful even in the rain!
such beautiful photos!
Our peonies are also very late here in zone 5/northeast Ohio. For the first time, we lost a peony shrub( an edulis superba variety) over the winter and several of our plants have black ends on the branches. I think it is time to add some more varieties for next spring, are there any you recommend? I am going to try some single flowering ones because all of ours are the robust multi-petaled peonies.
Oh…I am so sold on double booms. Sounds like Botrytis Blight, a fungal disease. I try not to use chemicals, but if you just google for it you’ll find alot of remedies. Key is keeping it from spreading. A good video on planting/caring for them, from a White Flower Farm here.
I am never disappointed with your blog. Each day I look for and am always left breathless at the gorgeous photos. I would love to get lost in them sometime. Thank you so much for your beautiful postings.
Be still my heart! So lovely! Thank you, Trish!
Worth the wait and all the effort to grow them. They are gorgeous!
Stupende queste peonie il prossimo anno le pianterò anch’io!!!! Scusa qual’è il periodo migliore per piantarle?
Beautiful blooms…love the colors…
As a person in zone 8, southern Alabama, I can’t grow peonies but I love them. Yours are truly gorgeous!
Your blog is lovely and I look forward to reading each new post.
Hi Bonnie. I’m in zone 9!!! Some people in my area actually throw ice on the plants to give them a good chill. I plant mine fairly high…so that they feel the cold more. Still…a trip to the farmer’s market, Trader Joes or Costco might be alot less frustrating!
So beautiful. Thanks for sharing your love.
Worth the wait for these beautiful flowers. xxpeggybraswelldesign.com
Beautiful peonies. Supposedly adding some 7up, sprite soda or an aspirin to the water helps the flowers to live longer. I have never smelled a peony, but since people likes them so much, I ordered some peony fragrance for my soaps, we’ll see how they turn out.
XXX Ido
Thanks Ido. I’m also taking tons of photos to salivate over the other 11 months of the year. Hadn’t thought of peony perfume…how lovely!
Oh Trish!
My Favorites and I can’t grow them here!!!!!! I love the little Santa Barbara daisies. I didn’t know about them… Always learn something new here !!!!!!!Maryanne xo
I’m so sorry Trish!!! Very strange year this year. My peonies did not have enough rain, have never seen them flowering so early in my whole life! And as I mention before, they are already ‘gone’ two weeks ago. Please, please send the rain to the Périgord, sun is on the way to YOU!
But who knows – weather is always good for something else in nature. And these beautiful little daisy’s seem to be very happy!
The bunch of peonies you picked look very lovely in the old florist bucket!
xxxkarin
I’m always wondering whether I should cut them or leave them. It’s SO hot today…I feel I made the right choice. I’ve even cut them and refrigerated them for up to a week. Peony season is too short!!!
I have a peony farm and the flowers are later this year than in all the years we have grown them. I’m sure it’s the cold, wet weather. Yours are beautiful.
Your garden is just so lovely, Trish. It looks very peaceful.
When in doubt, cut the peonies. If you cut in the bud stage and store in the frig, you can keep them for a couple of weeks and then bring them out.
Our garden is a good 3 weeks later than normal. We’re still getting daily rain, so we still squish when we walk. But, we consider ourselves absolutely lucky!
-Ann
P.S. If you don’t mind, what is the softly colored spiky plant in the middle of the last photo?
Hi Ann. Such a great plant! Iris Pallida Variegata (aka Dalmatian Iris…as in Dalmatian coast, Croatia…not the dog). Always looks good, even without it’s gorgeous bearded flowers. You plant the spears in the direction you want it to spread!
AHhhhhhh!!! Finally! . Glad you have rooms of bloom! I agree it has been the strangest spring.
Such beauty.
I painted, in oil, a commission yesterday. A historical cottage with a tree poeny in front. 18 buds of which 8 were in bloom.
I am happy thus far with my painting and will return to the scene on Saturday when it is expected sunny (hopefully, the heavy rains have not damaged the blossoms). I shall post my painting and story on my blog on Sunday
I enjoy your topics and postings very much
Thanks
Trish, just beautiful. I never get enough of peonies, ever.
Some day, I’ll have own.
Meanwhile I’ve enjoyed yours!
🙂
Trish, worth the wait!!! They are all so lovely and look beautiful in the zinc bucket. I think you were wise in cutting them, but I agree, I have to summon every bit of will power to cut mine and bring them in too!!! Mine are still in very tight bud formation, but the Japanese peony that was felled almost to the ground two seasons ago in a storm, has twenty blooms!! Never in all the 25 years I have had it in the garden has it produced so many. Can’t wait for it to bloom. You must be in heaven with all that glorious stuff happening in your garden now. N.xo
Just beautiful, Trish. I love visiting you as I always learn so much.
Trish,
You’re in Zone 9? I believe we’re in Zone 9 or 10—maybe I could grow peonies. Do you get any frost during the winter/ We don’t but maybe I could throw some ice cubes.
I love your garden.
Karen
They are divine and my favourite flowers. I wish I could grow them here but it’s just too warm. Your photos are lovely. I look forward to October/November here so I can buy them from the florists.
You got your birthday gift from your garden!!!many happy returns dear Trish and thank you for sharing these beauties with us. Hugs and xxx from Afrique du Sud-Colette
STUNNING!! Enjoy….and watch the ants!
Oh how I covet your peonies…if only I could have my own…but alas I am destined to wander through the gardens of the great Chateaux of France drinking them in…and now to be graced virtually with yours…and I must tell you, your stunning parade of peonies holds its own in the company of those French rivals. Enjoy every beautiful blossom!
jermaine
Oh, your peonies are so beautiful! What a truly romantic flower. We have had a very cool spring in southern California and I have buds but no blooms yet. As you know, it is difficult to grow them here but I have had a
bit of success so far. Yours are gorgeous and I delight in their exquisite beauty.
These are incredible. My mother’s peony bush has begun to give forth and I can’t wait to visit her and see them!
Soooooooooo Jealous!!!!!
These have to be, by far, my most favorite flower… it must be their full look and the stunning colors, I believe. Thank you for sharing these images — how pretty… Happy June 1st to you, Trish. I hope that the new month brings many wonderful things for you…
warmly,
Sarah
I’m always amazed (and jealous) over how glorious your garden is! The peonies are my favorites!
Beautiful, beautiful photographs Trish….Happy belated birthday too….xv
Wow, love your garden and photos. Wish my garden looked like yours. 🙂
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I adore looking at your beautiful garden. I plan to plant more peonies this year I just cannot resist after looking at these gorgeous photographs.