Re: Peonies

Kitty,
Thank you I will have to check that out. 
Tricia

--- On Tue, 6/9/09, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:


From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Peonies
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 9:36 PM


Tricia, Check ou Seneca Hill's page for peonies if you'd like a range of bloom
times..  I have two Japanese woodland peonies that bloom earlier than typical
garden types, Paeonia japonica and P. obovata.  I also have two very
thick-stemmed garden peonies, Coral & Gold and Taki yo Nishiki, which stay
standing during strong downpours.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia Dickson"
<pdickson@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Peonies


> I just love peonies!  I totally missed mine blooming this year.  That just
> happened to be the week I was gone to the Chelsea flower show.  Which was
> great but I still missed my peonies.
> I try to take in as many as possible because of how fast they fall apart
> outside.  I didn't for years then someone convinced me to try cutting them.
> Since that year I have cut and cut so that I can enjoy them longer.  I just
> really wish they bloomed for longer.  Maybe I should research different
blooms
> to see if there are some that bloom early and some later.
> What varities do you have Auralie?
> Tricia
>
> --- On Tue, 6/9/09, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> Subject: [CHAT] Peonies
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 8:43 AM
>
>
> This has been a most unusual spring, with roller-coaster weather -
> two different spikes up to 90 degrees for a day with unusually cool
> weather before, between and after, and pretty dry most of the time.
> It has been very overcast most of the time, but very little real
> percipitation.  Now that I have finished with most of the pressing
> things I've been involved with for the past month and thought I
> could finally get to the garden, it is pouring rain and thundering.
> This the most significant rain we have had all spring.  I'm delighted
> that it is raining, for we needed it sorely, but why today?  Why not
> last week when I couldn't work outside anyway?
>
> Anyway, for whatever reason and despite the untoward weather,
> things have bloomed more heavily this spring than I can remember.
> all the early trees and shrubs - forsythia, dogwood, redbud, cherry,
> crabapple, viburnum, etc. were spectacular.  The rhododendrons
> and azaleas bloomed heavily above the level that deer could
> reach, though the deer had stripped them up to about five feet.
> This week has been the week of the peonies, and they are
> fabulous - or were until this rain.  I'm sure that many of them
> will be beaten down and spoiled by this heavy rain.  Yesterday
> I counted more than 25 blooms on my 'Gai Paree' and that was
> after I had already picked quite a few.  I have brought in large
> bunches of ten or twelve different blooms twice now, and also I
> took such a bunch to my club meeting yesterday.  Just showing
> off.  A couple of the early ones are already past, and there are
> a couple more that haven't opened yet, but on the whole, I can't
> remember a finer peony year.  I don't know if we can thank global
> warming for the remarkable bloom this year, but whatever is
> responsible, I think it's great.  I just hope it isn't followed by an
> overheated summer.
> Auralie
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