Annual peony post

One of the interesting things with keeping the blog is tracking the posts from year to year. For example, last year the peony post was 2 weeks earlier than this year. A demonstration of the difference in each year's weather.

This year Spring has been cool and wet so the blooming flowers are later than last year's hot and dry Spring.

There is a new peony in the garden this year. I don't know where it came from and there are only two stems and each has a pink-toned blossom of the single type peony. Pretty crazy.

Miss America

One of the old fashioned red peony that came with the house

Miss America

A pink sngle type variety. This one just showed up this year

One of the red peonies that came with the house.

Garden photos

Gas plant that I stole from the neighbor's house a long time ago.

Miss America

One of the red ones that came with the house.

A light pink one that came with the house.

Never Tire of the Peonies

I was very fortunate that when I bought my house nearly 25 years ago there were several peony plants. I was not familiar with this beautiful flowering perennial. I don't recall having these or even seeing them when I was growing up.

I learned that the plants do not like to be moved. They will hold off blooming for a year or more once they have been disturbed.

The aroma from the largest plant will often fill the entire backyard. The plants I have now have been in there current locations for well over a decade.

The house came with five different varieties. The dark red is the most prevalent but I also had a white Japanese variety, two different pink ones and a white and pink one. My friends bought another white variety, Miss America, that has been featured separately.

While I was away...

While I was up north for the Memorial Day weekend, the garden burst with color.

The transplanted and thinned Siberian iris are even blooming.

Gas plant

Miss America peony

Miss America peony

perineal geranium

Plant name escapes me

Peonies

Peony

Here she is. Miss America

Peony time. They are starting to bloom. Miss America is normally the first to open.

Annual peony pics

At least two weeks ahead of normal, the garden peonies are starting to bloom and as beautiful as ever.  What you don't get with the pictures is the amazing aroma.

Miss America

the peonies that came with the house

Looked up last year's picture and it was dated June 12.  That shows how much earlier the blooms are this year.

Dutch Iris and Peonies

I love the Dutch or Siberian Iris.  These are on really tall stems and are just beautiful.

 My backyard has become known for the peonies.  These along the garage wall are just enormous bushes.  There don't seem to be as many blooms this year as there were last year.  But the bushes all seem to be doing very well.

These guys get lost in the far back corner and are worth the walk to see.