PeonieS!
Mary Sue Ittner (Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:12:05 PDT)

Dear All,

Jim Waddick has offered to do a topic of the week on peonies some time and
I am looking forward to it. I always assumed it wouldn't be cold enough
here in Northern California to grow them, but then on a trip to Australia
we got to visit Trevor Nottle's garden near Adelaide. His garden is a
Mediterranean garden and his philosophy seemed to be that in the summer you
rest when it rests. We saw it in spring and I was really taken with the
gorgeous peonies he had grown from seed. He told us he looked for species
that flowered early before it got really hot. At the time I told myself
that I had enough to grow without getting hooked on something else, but
when we looked at our slides of his garden, those pictures of the peonies
were some of my favorites.

Jane's pictures give a beginning idea of the variety. What a great start
for that wiki page.

I am sure we all wish Jim a good trip and good sales for his book.

Mary Sue