I love peonies, thanks dalfyre for showing that! It made my day!
Well I discovered Leo gave me 3 kinds of mums! That first one was a Belgian mum called Ozenda Orange and it did, it turned an orangish yellow as fall wained!
Then the second was Gold Finch Yellow....
And this one .. also a Belgian mum called Terano Yellow!
Whooohooooooo, I am so happy! I just hope my labor was not for not installing almost 30 of them that he generously gave me and I hope they return in my garden next year!!
Im gonna have to do something nice for Leo.. that was sweet of him!
And call me weird, but I love dandelions! They smell wonderful and are great bee attractors!
Some are still blooming even now!
Dandelions have a fragrance???? I will have to sniff one next time, just before I pull it out and toss it. LoL.
Teresa - how many peonies do you have? That is a lovely bloom. I also see a nice deep dark red one in one of your earlier photos. I planted about 6 new ones this year, bringing my total herbaceous and tree peony total count to about 24. I am on borderline cold-requirement, so some years is great, others not so good.
Oh yes, dandies have a fragrance, but maybe its an acquired "taste"..
Soils I am envious...
I only have the two.
Mum gave me the red & I have about 5 plants from splitting the original gift.
The white is not doing as well, it was better when I first moved here but I lifted & divided it - the ones I gave Mum have not flowered & only one of the two I kept has flowered, it is putting out more buds but they are smaller flowers.
It still smell heavenly, the red has no scent at all.
I am wondering after reading the article in DG a while back if I planted the white too deep.
It may need a new spot as they (supposedly) don't like competition or any overhanging foliage & it is getting crowded where it lives.
I think come autumn I will bite the bullet & try shifting the smaller of the two white ones ...
just have to research a bit more to choose the optimum position & then wait & see.
Teresa - I need to qualify what I wrote LoL. I don't have 24 different varieties - I have 24 plants. I have up to 3-4 of the same variety - I have maybe 16 different varieties all together.
I have not tried moving any of peonies except for one tree peony that I planted in a spot where it got hidden. I think it is dead - but I am keeping the "stick" in place in case it decides to come back. I did dig up a herbaceous one this fall to give away - I hope that it will bloom for her. Good luck with finding a good spot for your white one. Since you lifted and divided it recently, it may just need time to adjust.
it has been a few years since I disturbed the white peony, the reds were shifted more recently & are doing well - and they forgot to read the book on where they should thrive as one of my best one is under the witch hazel & loving it.
I ducked into the Warehouse & they have peonies in the orphans section marked down to $20.00...
am tempted by the pretty pink one, lot of money for a plant though.
There were some aquilegias alongside for $1.50, that is more my price range, and they were pretty colours.
