Every spring one of my favorite things to do is to make a flower arrangement from the peonies and iris in the backyard. I looooooooooooooove peonies and plan on eventually lining the whole driveway in them. This year two of my new varieties bloomed well for the first time. I bought the kind that is just a big poof of yellow anthers in the middle surrounded by a single layer of petals (you can see a pale pink one below just starting to open). Sometimes when I am working in the yard I catch a glimpse of one and they just stop me in my tracks and I have to stand there marveling at their beauty. I don't think they last as long as the regular kind but I'm OK with that, as long as I get a day or two before the rains get them. As I've said in past posts peonies are may favorite flower and I feel the same way about them as Emma Goldman did about her roses.
"I'd rather have peonies on my table than diamonds on my neck."
Lovely, peonies are my favorite flower by far... they are just starting to come in to the shops down here and I buy a package of them every other time I am there. Lovely photos~
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