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In the last few weeks I have been under the spell of peonies. Every time they flower, the wonder is anew.

Their flowers are most times fleeting (especially when we get 30C in May!), and there is little time to enjoy them. Most Paeonia species have flowered already, and I have had two very nice surprises: first, my first peony grown from seeds has flowered: a sweet P. mlokosewitchii. Second, a couple of divisions gifted to me by a dear friend, have also flowered: a chance cross of P. japonica and P. mascula (which were growing close toghether in her garden).

Paeonia japonica had the chance to flower just before the heat wave and it was superb! P. mascula, a bit late, was rushed through and the same happens now with P. tenuifolia and P. officinalis.

As I write, my only precious Paeonia rockii is in flower: what a peony!

“The peony is this big” / the child’s arms/ outstretched. – Issa

Paeonia anomala and P. lactiflora cultivars will follow shortly and there will be 2 more flowering surprises: a young P. officinalis ssp. huthii and a white tree peony (P. suffrutescens)! They were grown from seeds, and the satisfaction to see them reaching flowering stage can hardly be described.

There are even more peonies youngsters in the garden; each will flower in their own time. And the wonder will be anew…

Then the peonies
Extinguishing all others
Opened their petals.
              –  Basho