Taiyo Tree Peony is blooming about two weeks early. Blooms are more pink than red this year, but I'll take them and be happy about it.

Yesterday was this...


This morning was THIS...

Debra, it is beautiful! I'm so glad the peony parade has begun. 👏🏻

It's looking like mine will be two weeks early, too. I've got some herbaceous showing color on their buds!

Wow! This is early! Debra, your Taiyo is the first again! The show has begun!

This is Jin Zhang Fu Rong, or Hibiscus in a Brocade, from TreePeonyGarden in 2014. Each year it seems to give me a different looking flower. This morning.




Hopefully she will open in the next 24 hours.

We should create a message board for tree peonies, itoh peonies, and herbaceous peonies. What say everyone?

I am only slowly becoming familiar with the various types of Peonies. Since I don't know the difference enough to state an opinion, I'll go with the majority vote(s).

What is a message board, do you mean different thread?

I think that would be good, Gary.

Board = thread

Yes, it's good idea. I only have Itoh and herbaceous peonies this year. I just ordered maybe 2 tree peonies.

Taiyo Tree Peony


Splashacata TB (R. Tasco) to the left; Dark Crystal SDB (M. Byers) bottom-right.

Here she is today, a little more open.

Think you'll be our early bird every year now, Debra! Beautiful flower, congratulations! Nice that you have irises blooming with them, aren't they great companions?

Just another day or 2 of sun and yours will be open too, Gary! Both of you are lucky ducks to have blooms this early!

Liz, I have an Iris and Daylily 'Share' category for you on my plant list. Since the September ship didn't happen, it needs to be updated... If you want some eye candy, you can also go look at my FB Iris photo albums .

I will, thanks Debra!

@graycrna4u Are you finding that your peonies near the house with sun are a bit more developed than bushes that are well away from the structure?

I've got 3 NOIDs near my house that are all up and growing while the ones further from the building are, for the most part, just starting to crest. There is nothing special about where they are planted beyond being close to the house.

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Since we have just started this thread here with such beautiful photos, it was requested that I move these into separate threads for 2020 blooming Itohs, 2020blooming tree peonies, 2020 blooming herbaceous peonies. These threads have been started. I am unable to merge what has been posted here so far. So feel free to repost on appropriate threads.

Happy Spring!

Top, I think the soil temperature is higher closer to a structure that's why the peonies start earlier.

I have my first one opening! Smouthii!!




Pehrson's Violet Frisbee is showing color!



Vanilla Schnapps is really coming on





Lotus Bloom has some color too



The red wasps are guarding buds!