Name: Rosie HILLSBOROUGH, NC (Zone 7b) If it sparkles - I'm there!
I keep thinking something is amiss.. Should the fawn still have spots?? I hinkmthese things breed 24/7.
Try virburnum and I think you are spot on with peony..as a beautiful replacement ..some are so darn beautiful..BUT...the rain will break your heart just as surely as the deer...EVERY single year my beautiful peony are on the ground ..destroyed. I keep saying this ad nauseum..but blue star amsonia is a knockout in an old fashioned garden and come fall the needlelike green leaves fairly glow a hot golden bronze..lights up the garden. Nothing kills it..returns faithfully..and best of all dies to ground and so raking and mulching so easy..no leaves caught in it come spring to clear out. Erupts from the ground in in a pretty fuschia. The white guara is very well behaved too --not all sprawling and messy like the pink. A slim white fountain of tiny butterflies.
Don't squat with yer spurs on!
People try to turn back their "odometers." Not me. I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved
