Thanks☺️

I don't think it's Lustrous, Karen, it's too short. I know I purchased Paladin several years ago, it could be that one. It's one of my oldest peonies and has been divided numerous times and is in several locations, just don't have most of them marked! I did get Lustrous (I HOPE!) from GW last year with their buy 1 get 1 free offer. They're both ready to bloom but only have a single stem/bud each. I do have Myrtle Gentry but I don't think the buds are going to make it this year. It's funny, I don't normally pay that much attention to the scent but I'm all about it this season!

Love Theresa Ann, Tracey!

Oh, and guess who had golf ball sized hail today??

'Greenland'


'Petit Elegance'

'Pink Pompom' one I fell I love with after seeing it in an arrangement by Carol Adelman in a APS Show. Knew I had to have it.


Unnamed peony, gift from a garden friend. Think of her every time it blooms.

Wow, you have a lot of nice peonies, Tracey. Your Maestro is spectacular. Your Greenland is awesome too.

Thanks. Greenland was on my
list for many years, finally I got it😊
The only thing missing from Maestro is fragrance. The color and form are to die for, and stay pretty well upright here.

I just put in three Petite Elegance in a garden at a camp for severely handicapped children, so I am glad to see how pretty it looks. I also love that Pink Pom Pom. They look great together.

This has been the worst gardening spring that I've had in the 19 years we've been in CO. Twisted, warped and browning stems and foliage, deformed buds, browned edges on the blooms....time to go into "get the beds ready for next year" mode already.

So sorry to hear Liz! What happened to cause such damages? I admire your spirit.

The 8-10 inches of snow on Mother's Day started it off. Had several below freezing nights right after that, too. Then it rained/hailed/rained some more for the rest of May and it's still doing it in June, golf ball sized hail 2 nights ago. This is getting really old.....I'm just glad most of my peonies are in raised beds. They're damper than I'd like but not sitting in water constantly, hopefully all will be okay. I've had several stems die back to the ground but almost all have some new growth.

Hang in there. I have had several that I all but gave up on but learned my lesson on how tough peonies are when established so just left them til next year. And low and behold two have sent up sprouts. One was new last summer and one I have had for several years. Julia Rose got really smashed a few years ago and has not really come back as she was but as long as she is living there is hope she will grow stronger. Same with Cora Louise and Lemon Chiffon.

I haven't given up entirely, Mary Stella, just lowered my expectations for this year! I've already ordered another 60 or so for this fall! I know I lost a few this year but the vast majority are soldiering on, looking beaten but not completely broken...Daylilies are looking pretty and green, though! Looks like they're the only type along with penstemons and agastaches that made it through the rain/hail/rain/tornados nearby cycle with no damage. Lilies are browning and bent and hostas are shredded.

Perhaps you have a great year next year, Liz! Since the foliage that survive will go into food for the roots, the roots will be bigger this fall and thus more flowers next year. That is the bright side of things.

LizinElizabeth said:I haven't given up entirely, Mary Stella, just lowered my expectations for this year! I've already ordered another 60 or so for this fall! I know I lost a few this year but the vast majority are soldiering on, looking beaten but not completely broken...Daylilies are looking pretty and green, though! Looks like they're the only type along with penstemons and agastaches that made it through the rain/hail/rain/tornados nearby cycle with no damage. Lilies are browning and bent and hostas are shredded.

Another 60 peonies? That's going to be gorgeous.
In my experience plants with long narrow leaves like daylilies, or iris make it through moderate hail quite well, and there is some recovery when it happens early in the season,
although it's hard to make it back from being pounded into mulch and down to the ground.

I am just begging to be excited about peonies. This is my first to bloom and I am not sure of the name. It has no fragrance and shades out to light pink.

'Courage'

One thing I know for certain, is that when Adelman's Peony catalog mentions something interesting or exquisite about a peony, they aren't kidding. This has the most delicate subtle mottling webbed inside a base of beautiful pale pink. The form is fully double and to make it perfection, it has an amazing strong scent, what you would think of when you think of old-fashioned peonies.
It has to be in my top five best peonies.

Tracey, do you have a picture of the bud and leaf? Courage is kind of similar to one of my NOIDs. Is it possible that I've got Courage?

I think we have something that horticulturalists call “compressed season.” Plants do not bloom in the expected order. Just look at the mess in my garden. These things are not supposed to bloom in the same time. The orange poppy (Allegro) is supposed to bloom in two weeks. Now that orange clashes with red Hoki TP.


And the pink cleamatis (close to Hoki) died two years ago.

I don't have any bud pictures, they are all either blooming in various stages or bloomed out/spent blooms. But here are a few more... The coloring is very distinctive. I haven't ever seen a peony like it. It has the same undertone mottling of 'The Fawn', same type of thing going on.