Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Planting Peonies On the Vernal Equinox

Red peony, Karl Lagerfeld Pink peony, Sarah Bernhardt

I planted my new peonies yesterday. We had a lovely, warm spring day. I've never had success with store-bought peonies before, but I bought these two varieties at KMart anyway. (Triumph of Hope over Experience.)

4 comments:

Reya Mellicker said...

Rebecca how wonderful to hear from you and how magical that you were reading the blogs' "true" name even though I had disguised it a bit. wow!

I see Splendor in the photo upper left on your blog, shining through the clouds so beautifully it makes you want to cry.

Did you see the comet?

kbrow said...

I love peonies! May they flourish and thrive!

Dave said...

I transplanted some hierloom peopnies one time and they did fine. But I think I did it in the fall rather than the spring. They don't bloom the first year, one way or the other.

Rebecca Clayton said...

Reya, I didn't see the comet--although I looked. We had cloud cover.

Thanks for the good wishes on the peonies. When you buy plants from a big box store, they need all the blessings they can get!

Dave, I'm going to post my heirloom peonies soon.