Not forgetting the Peonies

Paeonia 'Bowl of Beauty'

I brought Paeonia ‘Bowl of Beauty’ with me from Sussex and added a rather insignificant single pale pink bought from the market.  My ‘stock’ peony comes from the tree peony we bought here (at great cost).  This was a delicious dark carmine pink, with pinkish-glaucous leaves.  Within a year a rash of palest pink flowers encircled the single spindly stem of the tree peony.  Despite the advice that peony often dislike disturbance I pulled the plant to pieces and replanted the graft plus its roots on its own, with the shorter growing ‘stock’ in the front of the border.  This year we were rewarded with two flowers on the tree peony and every little stem of the stock plant producing a flower.  It adds to the general haphazard planting on this little border.



Tree Peony