Pfingstrosen (Paeonias; in German: "pentecost-roses") flower around the Christian holiday of "Pfingsten". The "tree peonies" - really shrubs - flower a little earlier, the perennials afterwards. This year, the tree peonies were in full bloom mid- to end of May and we are still waiting for the herbaceous species in our garden.
This is P. x lutea "Black Pirate", my favourite. Flowers are not really black at all, but dark red with a wild yellow bush of stamens inside. It is the earliest Paeonia to flower in our garden. She opened her first buds on May 10 .
This white P. suffruticosa "Renkaku" grows on very weak stems, that we have to support with sticks. Its flowers are too heavy for them, a strange top-heavy breed that I cannot recommend, although the single flowers are phantastic. "Renkaku" flowers a few days later.
Here decorated with forget-me-nots, that found their way around the flowers.
A wild herbaceous version that came as undergrowth from a blueish-violet tree peonie, whose colour we did not like - so we kept the wild form from underneath the graft area.
This is P. x lutea "Black Pirate", my favourite. Flowers are not really black at all, but dark red with a wild yellow bush of stamens inside. It is the earliest Paeonia to flower in our garden. She opened her first buds on May 10 .
This white P. suffruticosa "Renkaku" grows on very weak stems, that we have to support with sticks. Its flowers are too heavy for them, a strange top-heavy breed that I cannot recommend, although the single flowers are phantastic. "Renkaku" flowers a few days later.
Here decorated with forget-me-nots, that found their way around the flowers.
A wild herbaceous version that came as undergrowth from a blueish-violet tree peonie, whose colour we did not like - so we kept the wild form from underneath the graft area.
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