A Peony Lover

A gardener discovers her favorite flower

Today ’s pic come from Connie Prendergast from Sedgewick , Alberta ( Zone 3 ) .

peony are my favorite flower . I did n’t screw that until I was about 45 . At that stop in my life , I had never had a garden . I conceive I detest gardening . Then we moved to Alberta and bribe a house . There was one red peony plant at the side of the house , and it was absolutely beautiful . A yr later we strike again , and that holding and the memory of the peony inspired me . That started my adventure of learning to garden . Now I have bed of flowers where I know the name of every plant , and I love every one . I walk around to each flowerbed every day during the growing season , looking for the progress from natural spring sprouts to flower bud to full flowering beauties !

The peonies remain my favorites . And my favorite of favorite is the variety ‘ Raspberry Sundae ’ . I just ca n’t get enough of those beautiful , pernicious , pinkish and ointment fray .

During this journey , I not only discovered that I enjoyed gardening but that I also enjoyed journaling about and photographing flowers , hostas , and ferns , none of which I knew anything about until after I was 50 twelvemonth old .

‘ Raspberry Sundae ’ . It is easy to see why this is Connie ’s “ favorite of favorite . ”

‘ Coral Charm ’ is a beautiful intersectional or Itoh hybrid peony . These types of peonies are hybrids between herbaceous and tree diagram peonies , and they combine the good of both types . View our plant life templet to peony here .

This peony blossom is backpack to the rim with flower petal , making for an incredibly beautiful , full flower . It is an unknown mixture that derive from Connie ’s mother ’s garden . Fully double peony flowers are very clayey , so check that you impale them to avoid having those beautiful blooms winding up font down in the clay .

A faithful look .

Peony prime come in a wide reach of people of colour . This one is a in particular beautiful dark magenta .

Peonies also can be an frosty nerveless pure white .

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