April 20, 2002
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My First Peonies of 2002
Photo by Chris Duffy
I was SO surprised when I got home from work yesterday. I found my first four peonies for this season. Four beautiful white blossoms, AND I counted 135 more buds on 11 bushes, so it looks like I’ll have a bumper crop of peonies this year. Did I tell you that I love peonies. . . they remind me of my back yard when I was growing up in Quincy, Ill. We had a sidewalk that ran all the way from the house to the alley and we had peony bushes on one side for about half the length of the sidewalk. We had white ones, red ones, pink ones and white ones with dark pink streaks. They’re all beautiful.
Comments (4)
Those are beautiful.
Oh, how wonderful. I love peonies too… and for the same reason… exactly the same reason… same hometown, same backyard. I have buds on mine, but it will be a few days, I think.
Georgeous! I can hardly wait for mine. They’ll bloom in a couple of weeks, I think.
For some odd reason these that bloomed first are the ones that are in the shade half the day. Go figure.