Wow Diann, that is impressive. You should post more garden-wide pictures so we can see your meadows of peonies! You have some really great varieties.
New Peony Blooms Today
You want something like this? :)
or this?
or maybe this?
Yeah, those are great! Your plants look awesome against your green fields and grass for a backdrop. It is getting hot here and things aren't looking as lush! I am jealous.
Actually, that main peony bed is being expanded and so it's not really pretty at the moment... Hopefully by the end of this weekend I'll have it cleaned up a bit... We cut down a soft maple and widened the bed by about four foot or so. I have a Royal Frost Birch to replace the maple and then I'll spread my iris and daylily about in that bed a bit more... ;)
I think it looks beatiful. Your plants complement one another really well.
Here is a photo of that same bed from a couple years ago in July... That's the tree we took down, and there was a ratty old chicken coop that we moved last month.....
Thank you, Steve. :) I may be at my saturation point with gardens... I probably shouldn't make very many more or things will always look ratty. I need to get the sun-gardens whipped into shape and then I have to head for the hosta beds..... There is no rest for the wicked and I must be exceptionally wicked. :) The hostas are calling...
Diann
Ticker, you're killing me! i'm drooling just looking at your garden. I got my respect.
Thank you, Dehart. :) I've got a lot of weeding to do before I make it through all the beds...
Diann
Yes, wide angle!
What are the blue flowers in the first wide shot?
Your beds are gorgeous!
I love the way they compliment the fence, or vice-versa.
It looks like you have a wonderful place to live!
Billy, the blue flowers are Flax. I started most of them from seed via winter sowing. They reseed like crazy. Thank you, we like it here. I did manage to get the west pasture perennial bed weeded last night. But there are 2 more sun gardens before I can get down to the hosta beds... All in due time...
Diann
I have flax, but yours is much more filled out than mine. I planted 85' of it in the south peony bed in 2003. Half of it died out, and reseeded out of the row. I need to fix that.
Sally