Magnificent Peony 牡丹 芍藥
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(Paeonia lactiflora ‘Lady Alexandra Duff’) Source: gardener, not confirmed. In friend's garden, mine are still on their way.
... for a happy Pentecost Sunday!
Chinese peony / Chinesische Pfingstrose (Paeonia lactiflora 'Bowl of Beauty') in Botanical Garden, Frankfurt
or early in the morning. Besides I want to explain something in every frame. Every image has to have a message :-)
Ara Güler
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peony lactiflora, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Nothing common about these beauties,
Originally prized for its medicinal uses and known to the ancient greeks as 'The Queen of all Herbs'.
not in session :-)
Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1904, George Horace Lorimer, editor
for those who may find the quote sexist, i do not disagree...nonetheless, check the date at the conclusion of the quote
peony lactiflora, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty :-)
Mark Twain
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peony lactiflora, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
This is a Chinese Peony plant - classification Paeonia lactiflora. Unfortunately it is not in my yard. Even though I only had my phone, I couldn’t pass by it without taking a picture. It is such a beautiful, bright spring color.
Changing from a wide view of the garden to a much tighter shot of a single flower
This is one of three peonies I planted back in 2000 . They are gorgeous plants when they are in flower if you have a decent sized garden they are worth having . The downside is that unlike roses they flower only once they stay in flower for a couple of weeks then that’s its till next year . I like peony 'Festiva Maxima’ a lot it looks white at first but as the flower develops there are yellow tones and small flashes of red
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The white double Asian peony has many names. It is known to plant lovers as the milk-white peony, early peony, Chinese peony or Asian peony. The latter names refer to the original home country of this enchanting garden beauty.
Asiatische Pfingstrose (Paeonia lactiflora)
Die Asiatische Pfingstrose weiß gefüllt hat viele Namen. Pflanzenfreunden ist sie als Milchweiße Pfingstrose, Frühe Pfingstrose, Chinesische Pfingstrose oder eben als Asiatische Pfingstrose bekannt. Letztere Namen verweisen auf das ursprüngliche Heimatland dieser zauberhaften Gartenschönheit.
mediocre images your new camera shoots in one second :-)
Astor Morgan
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peony lactiflora, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Luktpion Paeonia lactiflora ‘Bowl of Beauty’
Luktpionen är ett måste i romantiska trädgårdar och de stora svulstiga blommorna ger ett vackert lyft till alla rabatter. Just sorten ’Bowl of Beauty’ har japansk blomtyp med enkla doftande karminrosa blommor med en gulvit mitt.
Den vackra luktpionen med sina stora blommor avbildas ofta i målningar och konst. Den växer med ett buskigt växtsätt i stora bestånd med tjocka knölformiga jordstammar och har ett dekorativt flikigt mörkgrönt bladverk.
rock's peony
Related Topics: Paeonia suffruticosa Brown’s peony tree peony Chinese peony European common peony
peony, (genus Paeonia), genus of about 30 species of flowering plants (family Paeoniaceae) known for their large showy blossoms. All but two species are native to Europe and Asia, and several species are cultivated as ornamentals and for the floral industry.
European common Peony
garden peony
There are three distinct groups of peonies: the herbaceous Eurasian peonies, the Asian tree, or moutan, peonies, and the North American peonies. The herbaceous peonies are perennials that grow to a height of almost 1 metre (about 3 feet). They have large, glossy, much-divided leaves borne on annual stems produced by fleshy rootstocks. In late spring and early summer they produce large single and double flowers of white, pink, rose, and deep crimson colour. The fragrant Chinese peony (P. lactiflora) and the European common peony (P. officinalis) have given rise to most of the familiar garden peonies. P. lactiflora has provided hundreds of cultivated varieties, including the Japanese types, with one or two rows of petals surrounding a cluster of partially formed petals in the centre (petaloid stamens).
The tree peonies are shrubby plants with permanent woody stems. The plants sometimes attain a height of 1.2 to 1.8 metres (about 4 to 6 feet). They begin flowering in late spring. The blossoms vary in colour from white to lilac, violet, and red. Tree peonies require a hot dry summer season for best growth, and they can be grafted in late summer or autumn on the roots of herbaceous peonies. Horticultural varieties have been developed from the Chinese species P. suffruticosa. A race of hybrids, developed by crossing P. suffruticosa with the yellow Chinese P. delayavi, has both single and double flowers, sometimes tinged with red. Many varieties have been grafted onto supportive rootstock and so cannot be readily propagated by simple division. Peonies are seldom grown from seeds except in breeding programs; the seed takes about two years to germinate.
Two peony species are native to North America. Brown’s, or western, peony (P. browni) ranges from California to Montana, and California peony (P. californica) is found only along the Pacific coastal mountains of California and Mexico.
Few plants have a longer history of cultivation or a more important role in ornamental gardening than peonies. Of the many species within the Paeonia genus, arguably the most popular and important is the Chinese peony (P. lactiflora), also known as common garden peony. These clump-forming, shrub-like perennial plants have enormous, highly fragrant flowers that appear in late spring and early summer. www.thespruce.com/paeonia-lactiflora-5095782
... for a Peaceful Bokeh Wednesday!
Chinese peony / Chinesische Pfingstrose (Paeonia lactiflora 'Bowl of Beauty') last June in Botanical Garden, Frankfurt
The life of each blossom is fleeting. This image captures an ephemeral moment in time. The first petal is starting to fall from this lush peony making it all the more precious.
Subject: Chinese peony (Paeonia lactiflora)
How did I create this image? This image was shot with a Lensbaby Velvet 85 mm lens on a Nikon Z7. The Velvet 85 allows for a sharp area of focus with a soft glow at lower f-stops. This image was shot at a relatively high f-stop.
Artist Statement: The exquisite beauty of flowers is both fragile and fleeting. And yet, flowers so often bear witness to the eternal truths of our lives: love and loss; birth and death; joy and grief; triumph and failure. My goal is to capture not only the ephemeral beauty of the flowers I photograph, but to create images with the capacity to evoke our enduring emotions, dreams, and deeper truths. Enjoy!
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Ma pivoine herbacée (Paeonia lactiflora) "Shirley Temple".
Délicieusement parfumées, les fleurs doubles de cette pivoine s’ouvrent à partir de bourgeons rose tendre pour donner de grandes fleurs rose pâle en forme de rose, remplies de pétales volants disposés de façon lâche, qui s’estompent gracieusement en vieillissant pour devenir blanc ivoire.
Elle me rappelle celles de ma grand-mère Rose-Alma. Elle en avait une longue rangée qui bordait sa grande pelouse. Ce sont de beaux souvenirs.
Après avoir été considérées un temps comme désuètes, ces belles vivaces sont revenues à la mode. Un nombre considérable de cultivars offre toute une gamme de belles fleurs simples ou doubles. La pivoine des jardins est parmi les vivaces les plus populaires et les plus fiables. Les plantes fleurissent à tous les ans, au début de l’été, et produisent une profusion de grosses fleurs, souvent doubles, souvent parfumées, souvent en quantité suffisante pour permettre la fabrication de bouquets. Et la plante est de vie très longue dépassant plusieurs décennies.
Dall'orto di Eugenio...
anche le peonie fanno le nanne ...
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in questo periodo il terreno è caldo ...
e domani mattina sarò assente.
Nell'annaffiare l'orto - con sorpresa
ho colto questo momento.
Buona notte a tutti carissimi
un abbraccio da Liliana.
The other day, I had the great privilege of being taken to a private working flower farm, hidden in the heart of the Dandenong Ranges National Park in Silvan on the outskirts of Melbourne. The growers specialise in crocuses, Japanese water irises, orchids, rare species of plants from South America and California, and beautiful heirloom peony roses. As a departure gift after a lovely afternoon wandering the greenhouses and fields, the owners gave me a bunch of beautiful pink Sarah Bernhardt peonies which have wonderfully furled petals, rather like the frills on a fine lady's outfit.
Paeonia lactiflora 'Sarah Bernhardt' is an exquisite herbaceous peony with ruffled, flamingo-pink double blooms that open from large and rounded buds. 'Sarah Bernhardt' is by far the best-known and most loved peony in the world. In fact, it’s so popular that it has become the face of peonies in general. This heirloom plant from 1906 is also delightfully fragrant.
Paeonia lactiflora, double flowered.
Another variety, the fondant pink.
They grow in a completely different way and end almost white.
Amazing all the way, from bud to falling petals.
Another favourite... Lol,
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In November last year, I had the great privilege of being taken to a private working flower farm, hidden in the heart of the Dandenong Ranges National Park in Silvan on the outskirts of Melbourne. The growers specialise in crocuses, Japanese water irises, orchids, rare species of plants from South America and California, and beautiful heirloom peony roses. As a departure gift after a lovely afternoon wandering the greenhouses and fields, the owners gave me a bunch of beautiful pink Sarah Bernhardt peonies which have wonderfully furled petals.
As the weather was beautifully fine in the days following my visit, I took the peonies in their vase out onto the garden to photograph them against the beautiful blue sky dusted with white, fluffy clouds, and against the rich green of my lawn. Imagine my delight, when a Heteronympha Merope (Common Brown) butterfly landed on one of the blooms just as I was photographing them! Now, I will happily confess that I admire any photographer who is quick enough to capture a butterfly in a shot, as I am usually far too slow to do so myself. However this butterfly was remarkably obliging and stayed on the bloom, basking in the sunshine, just long enough for me to take three photographs before it flitted away again!
The theme for the 3rd of August for “Smile on Saturday” is “combination of flora and fauna”. I was originally going to use another shot of a bee amongst some spring blossoms, but as I used a similar shot for “Looking Close on Friday’s theme of “bugs & co” on the 5th of July, when I remembered these photos from my archive, I decided to make a photo collage and submit them instead. I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
Heteronympha Merope, or the Common Brown, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, endemic to the southern half of Australia. The wingspan is about sixty millimetres for males and seventy millimetres for females.
Paeonia lactiflora 'Sarah Bernhardt' is an exquisite herbaceous peony with ruffled, flamingo-pink double blooms that open from large and rounded buds. 'Sarah Bernhardt' is by far the best-known and most loved peony in the world. In fact, it’s so popular that it has become the face of peonies in general. This heirloom plant from 1906 is also delightfully fragrant.
Chinese peony. There are several hundred selected cultivars in a range of colours, sizes and forms; many have double flowers, with the stamens modified into additional petals. The flower buds appear in late spring (May in the Northern Hemisphere). They are large and round, opening into fragrant, cup- or bowl-shaped flowers 8–16 cm (3–6 in) in diameter, with 5–10 white, pink, or crimson petals and yellow stamens.
Frohe Pfingsten!
Weiße Pfingstose
Paeonia x lactiflora "Krinkled white"
Neben ihrem ästhetischen Reiz symbolisieren weiße Pfingstrosen einen Neuanfang oder eine Wiedergeburt und sind eine Hommage an Aufrichtigkeit, Tugend und Reinheit des Herzens.
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My daughter-in-law’s flowers enchanted me today..
"Paeonia lactiflora is a species of herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Paeoniaceae, native to central and eastern Asia from eastern Tibet across northern China to eastern Siberia...... The flower buds appear in late spring (May in the Northern Hemisphere). They are large and round, opening into fragrant, cup- or bowl-shaped flowers 8–16 cm (3–6 in) in diameter, with 5–10 white, pink, or crimson petals and yellow stamens.[1] The plant attracts butterflies.[2] Its habitats include dry open stony slopes, riverbanks and sparse woodland edges" - Wikipedia
Thanks to my brother-in-law, Ted for the identification.