Re: Lots of questions...need help re lilies & peoniesespecially...

Marge: Getting the stakes in has always been one of my problems, so I
finally solved it by just resolving to do it last year and then left
them at the end of the year...they froze into the ground with no
problem, overwintered without difficulty, and now are already in place,
ready and waiting...yard looked kinda funny with all these hoops in it,
but at least I don't have to worry about it this year. And as cheap as
Menards sells these peony hoops...I can afford to replace them as needed
and I am okay with that! Wow! How's that for being lazy? :-)



Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Tue 04/06, Marge Talt < mtalt@hort.net > wrote:
From: Marge Talt [mailto: mtalt@hort.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 01:31:12 -0400
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Lots of questions...need help re lilies &  peoniesespecially...

> From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net><br>> Marge, this is why I prefer the
single flowers with thick stems -<br>no faces<br>> in the
grass.<br>----------<br><br>Yeah, yeah, Kitty, I know, but half the joy
of peonies is the huge<br>blowzy double scrumptious simply drop dead
gorgeous big fat<br>flowers:-) Absolutely nothing equals a vase full of
those for<br>pulchritudinous magnificence. I have a couple who, in
addition to<br>being all the above are very sweetly scented. Always try
to get at<br>least a couple in a vase on the stand next to my
bed.<br><br>I have one single and it, too gets whacked by our storms.
Now, IF,<br>of course, I ever managed to get my rear out there and get
the stakes<br>and string in BEFORE the plants bloomed, I could at least
keep the<br>flowers off the ground. I've made that goal maybe twice in
20 odd<br>years. It's one of those things...I pass the peonies;
say...gotta<br>get those stakes in...well, they're not that big; got a
bit of time<br>and before I know it that window has closed yet again.
One of the<br>lessons this gardener simply cannot learn, it
seems.<br><br>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland<br>mtalt@hort.net<br>Editor:
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