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