Peonies – Part I

Carlton farm is popping with peonies

Walking across the lush green rolling hills of his rural Carlton farm, Ed Kavanaugh leads a tour of two to a well-established peony field. "This is My Love," he says, pausing, then clarifying that he is speaking of the mother-of-pearl white peony flower he's just picked from a bush of peonies. It is enormous, double flowered with the faintest hint of pink, some 7 inches across and...

Peonies – Part I

Patricia Hanbidge Orchid Horticulture  I have fallen in love this year – with peonies – all over again! It is rather amazing that each year, I seem to have a new love in the garden. Sometimes it is an old love that again rises to the top and sometimes it is a completely new love! […]