Your red peony is amazing Oscar! What is it?

Hiyamakki said: Your red peony is amazing Oscar! What is it?

I think it's Houki.

kousa said: Though I was not impressed with the Duchess before, I am now. ST, your flowers and pictures above are good reasons enough to grow this cultivar. THis year, I finally get some good blooms from the Duchess that are picture worthy. I think it has finally hit its stride.

Oscar, what a show your TPs put out this year! I am just in awe! It seems the blooming season flew by so fast. Did you get any blooms on your seedlings?

Tracey, Eternal Spring has a striking color!

Tracey four years and counting not a single bloom maybe next year. Although I have two herbaceous seedlings with a tiny bloom each .

My last TP to bloom kinkaku all the buds but two died.

My much anticipated Lydia Foote bloomed yesterday - new two years ago and well worth the wait


Tree peony seedlings are blooming all over the place this year - this one is a yachiyo tsubaki seedling;

Nice, Valerie. yachiyo tsubaki makes beautiful seedlings and always makes a ton of seed here.

Thanks Tracey. This begs the question though - has anyone seen an ugly tree peony seedling? I won't ask about herbaceous peony seedlings because I have had a few ugly ones from one particular set of genes

Vals_Garden said: My much anticipated Lydia Foote bloomed yesterday - new two years ago and well worth the wait


Tree peony seedlings are blooming all over the place this year - this one is a yachiyo tsubaki seedling;

Beautiful peonies, Valerie

Leave it to High Noon to fill the garden with fragrance. High Noon was glowing this year. It is finishing now; these are last week's pictures.





My last tree peony to bloom opened two days ago, but only two flowers. It started with many more buds. There was a Hydrangea brunch that was shading Kinkaku. I cut that brunch thinking that Kinaku will receive more sunlight to develop the buds However, Kinkaku decided to grow, instead to bloom. It doubled in size in just a month and abandon all buds except two. Even these two are not as big as usual

Beautiful blooms, Oscar, Valerie, and Jasmin! Oscar and Jasmin, I am sorry to hear that both of your Kinkaku's suffered loss of buds this year, but the two blooms from each tree are gorgeous.

Valerie, that is a great seedling and Lydia Foote is very nice too.

Wonderful blooms!

My Tree Paony Month 2023 is officially over The last Kinaku bloom faded and wilted last week


Here are several highlights of the season. Since I relandscaped the garden, I've got several more nice vistas and angles for taking photos.
Hoki dominated this year Hope Hoki will repeat its performance next year





The Cup of Shining Night was also beautiful this year


This season was fantastic for most of us I am looking forward to 2024 In the meantime, there are still many herbaceous peonies blooming; roses are already in full bloom too.

Love it Jasmin. I'm glad you ended up with a beautiful display.

Thank you for your kind words, likes and acorns Although I still have several very small areas to finish (final touches), the main work is done. By now, I totally forgot all that hard work, and I am ready to enjoy the garden and blooms. I only wished I relandscaped the garden ten years ago.

By the way, my herbaceous peonies will probably be done in a week, but the roses are in full bloom. The clematises that I had to move last because of the relandscaping are doing well, although most of them will not bloom this year. The mums and native plants are doing well too. Even my experiment with the rhodos and soil acidification is going well However, my favourite time of the year is when the tree peonies bloom. That feeling of being a little high ( ) and being able to forget everything else cannot be induced by any other plant

I am testing the new Artificial Intelligence tool ChatGPT these days. You probably heard that ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Besides my scientific texts, I try to include other topics, just to see how ChatGPT reacts. So I included my previous post (see above). The ChatGPT titled the session "Plant Induced Forgetfulness"

Cute post, Jasmin. I like the title.

Jasmin said: I am testing the new Artificial Intelligence tool ChatGPT these days. You probably heard that ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Besides my scientific texts, I try to include other topics, just to see how ChatGPT reacts. So I included my previous post (see above). The ChatGPT titled the session "Plant Induced Forgetfulness"

Plant Induced Forgetfulness in a good way. Forget the troubles and remember the good things.