Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Daphnis Tree Peonies
This is a flower of the tree peony, 'Gauguin'. Earlier, in showing some of the double flowered tree peonies in the garden, I said that most of them had no names, as I had bought most of them cheaply from a box store, just labeled as, "such and such color tree peony", and to my eye they are just as good as the hundred dollar named varieties. But, when it comes to single flowered tree peonies, I am in love with the Daphnis hybrids. Being mostly single or semi-double, and being progeny of a strong-stemmed form of P. lutea, they hold their flowers high, instead of drooping into the foliage, like so many of the Japanese and Chinese hybrids, and the colors... WOW! They are like shot silk, with colors so rich and subtle, I have no names for them. I have Gauguin, as shown (it usually has more gold in it, but was almost cherry red this year), Icarus, Kronos, and have Nike ordered for the fall.
// posted by IBOY @ 7:36 PM 
