Peonies

Had to dead head the massive tree peony flowers, apart from a few late buds. Some of the herbaceous peonies are in flower now, all the deep red ones- but thank goodness the pink ones all flower quite a bit later.

Iris, both Germans and Sibiricas are in flower- and the Euphorbia Fireglow is amazing- with all the rest just about reddy to pop as soon as the sun comes out again. Niece and daughter coming from UK on Sunday- so hope for good weather to be back on its way.

Mine is in bud. It was here when I came and is planted under a poplar-type tree (yuk) and I suspect that the tree steals all the water. But it does seem to survive.

The massive tree peony flowers, 1 deep red, 1 white and 1 soft pink - have had to suffer heavy rain last few days- poor things.

Got a bowl of Beauty- only about 4 years old but doing very well- it does flower quite a bit later.

Mine haven't started blooming yet. We are quite far north, so our season is quite late.

I have 5 different shrub peonies, The best bloomers so far are the Sarah Bernhardt and Bowl of Beauty. The latter has bright pink petals with a yellow center. But they are all around 5-7 years so really just babies. Peonies can live as long as humans.

I absolutely love a vase of fresh peonies indoors!

We have some lovely shrub peonies of various colours out now, I particularly like the deep pink ones which are very old.
If you wait until they die back and then move the tubers, they should transplant successfully, gillybob.

I had a tree peony but lost it, however a friend has one and sometimes gives me some flowers.
I noticed that the flowers of the yellow tree peony smell rather odd (unpleasantly so), so if my friend gives me any I put them in a jar on the outside table.

Our shrub peony hasn't flowered yet, but from experience if I cut the blooms they will have dropped completely within 48 hours. I've got some from the supermarket which claim to last for five days. Day two so far and looking good.

love peonies in bouquets indoors- but always put on a pretty tray to catch all the petals as they drop.

Weather has been boiling here, but it suddenly got all dark, thunder and much needed heavy rain - let's hope that won't be the end the peonies in flower for this season. Plenty of others in bud to enjoy later.

We have both types and I cut the flowers now and have them indoors so I can make the most of them.
There really haven’t been many evenings so far when we could really enjoy them outside.
Our yellow tree peony was really knocked back by a very cold night but has rallied and we hope for some beautiful blooms soon.

Peonies are beautiful, but they don't last long, or rather, mine don't....

I have a beautiful white peony tree which is over now. It had about 30 flowers. I also have about 6 other types.

Yes I think you’re right Nannyxthree . Nowhere near as big as it used to be though. I’ve orobably stunted its growth by moving it .

Mine is definately a tree. From Gilly's photo I would say hers looks more like a shrub variety.

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Not very good photos and as I said not nearly as good as before I moved it but plenty of buds on it.

My gorgeous tree peony has bloomed already but it blew over in a storm and I lost a whole stem. Waiting to see how is recovers. It has huge bright pink flowers.

I transported a lovely soft pink peony from a house, to my sister's garden and finally to here when I bought this house. It has lots of buds on and I've staked it to hold up the weight. I put in 3 new ones two years ago, very healthy foliage but only one has buds on. Perhaps they need another year to acclimatize. They make a striking feature of any garden.

Oh dear you’ve got me there jura would I know by looking at it ? Is it the size ? Or the fact that it dies back and starts over again the next spring? Mine is just over 3 feet in height . But I think it was much bigger before I moved it .

gilly and Nanny- are the herbaceous or tree?

Mine must be a different variety as it has already bloomed and finished for this year. A creamy yellow colour. Don't know the name as we were given it as a cutting.

I moved a beautiful peonie 2 years ago as it was in the complete wrong place. It did nothing last year except sprout some leaves but I have noticed quite a few buds this year so hopefully it is happy again. I think it will be a few weeks before I see any flowers though as I live in the North East very close to the sea.

Never came across tree peonies until late quite late... first time was at a lovely house in Leicester called Belgrave Hall- they have superb large specimen. After that, I always looked for them. Lucky that DD1 lives near RHS Wisley, so have been so many times, and they have amazing ones too, same with so many Stately Homes - like Coton Manor in Northants we visited again recently.

I love peonies too, i have in my garden, they always remind me of my grandmothers garden which was awash with peonies. roses, over an arch, and Hydrangeas,amongst other beautiful flowers,
The weather sounds lovely, my eldest son lives in Spain and they are having good weather too
Wish it was the same here, some parts of the country have had heat,with sun, but here it has been hot but muggy not mucg sun as yet