Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Are your peonies blooming?, 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
The white one above is my oldest one. have had it for eons...has been moved 2 times.
Seems 3 of my 5 Peonies are the same colors. The deep pink one I have 3 of.

Have a little story to tell you all--re my Peonies.

The first 5 year I worked at my HD I was in Garden. Specifically--I "owned" the Green House.
One year--we had so many Peonies left over (out of bloom) that no one bought them.
The garden Supervisor (a young guy) was going to toss them all.
Realizing how many years it may have taken to grow a Peony to sell in a 3gal. pot--I intervened.

"Give me a price on these!"--I said to the him "I will buy them all!".
He thought a while and said--"OK! $2 each!". SOLD! I went home with 32 pots of peonies.
(This was still in the Arthur and Bernie days of HD. We could price things ourselves for clearance--
with just the Supervisor's OK).

Spent a lot of time "selling" them, for $3 (how honest can I be??) to any neighbor and friend
that wanted them. I kept 3, I think. My neighbor, Olga, bough 3 as well. MAN! She got some beauties!!!
One of them still dazzles me--to this day. So full a bloom--it cannot even hold its head up.

Will find a picture of it. #2. Bingo! First try--got it!