I ’ve always been intrigued , and at the same meter wary of , tree peonies . They are no doubt drip - utter gorgeous , and I desire one in my garden so badly , but they ’re super expensive , and have a reputation for being a shade thin-skinned . Hence , I steer absolved , since my gardening method is to plant things , step back , and see what live without any input from me . Hey – I’m just a baseborn garden editor in chief – I make no claim of being an expert nurseryman or graphic designer !
The other day , I got a surprise e-mail from Taunton ’s very own guru of consumer selling , Nancy Hallberg , who lives in Waccabuc , New York . Nancy ’s middling new at Taunton , so we have n’t had a chance to receive yet , but it turns out that she ’s an devouring gardener , and her Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree peony are amazing !
Nancy says,“I am an greedy , if progressive , gardener . My husband and I do both ornamental and vegetable , and have gotten quite carry away with landscape gardening , terraces , etc . This spring we ’ve had an amazing video display in some of our early gardens , with tree peony , bleeding hearts , and deadnettle go unhinged , among other plant life . ”
I ’m so overjealous , Nancy . They ’re outstanding ! stop out the caption on the photos for more info .
Anybody fetch any insider crest on how to succeed with tree peonies ? What do they need beyond the rudiments ? Is it just a topic of luck to have the perfect condition for them ? I must hump ! 😉
- ATTENTION ! ! FREE STUFF ALERT!!****(In compositor’s case you did n’t see it yesterday , and the day before)Hey all , I have a TON of horticulture rule book ( mostly on veggie gardening , Hot Topic # 1 these day ) laying around my agency , sent to us from publishers hoping for reviews in the cartridge clip . They ’re all great , but we only have a diminutive scrap of elbow room , and only once in a while , for review in the mag . While blab to my editor in chief about it last week , we decided to broadcast the wealthiness . Sooooo … I’ll be every which way choose two citizenry each sidereal day from all of the citizenry who to post me picture of their gardens ( or their gardening travels ) for the rest of this calendar week to get a costless book ( my pick ) ! Email photos to me at[email protect ] . No warrantee that I ’ll post your photos on the web log ( I explain whyHERE(way down at the bottom ) ) , but you ’ll get a package in the mail in a couple of weeks . When you mail in your exposure , be sure to include your full contact information ( and your username ) and a description of the photos you ’ve commit . Woohoo ! Exciting , yes ? I ’ll announce all the winners sometime next week , since I ’m out of the spot most of this week . Now go dig out out some photos , or drop back your photographic camera alfresco !
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We have gardens all around our property, and each has a seating area of some sort. This is a view of “the mound” – a circular area between the front of the house and the road beyond. It has one of my favorite seating areas, under a big oak tree, with a view past the front door up the terraces behind our house where we have both vegetable and ornamental gardens. The mound is anchored by two glorious Chinese tree peonies – ‘Red Dragon in a Green Pool’ on the left, and ‘Phoenix White’ on the right. This year’s warm winter and early spring has brought an amazingly abundant display of blooms. We’ve never had so many, and thanks to the dry, cool week we had, they’ve never lasted this long. 2 WAYS TO ENLARGE! Click directly on the photo to enlarge in a pop-up, or click HERE to see this image, larger, in a new browser windowPhoto/Illustration: Courtesy of Nancy Hallberg
