Peonies
Antennaria@aol.com (Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:31:26 PDT)

Jim Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> wrote:
"If you are actually sure you want to grow peonies for cut
flowers, you probably mean the cultivars of P. lactiflora or 'Chinese
peonies'."

Not a geophytic peony, so perhaps a little off-topic, but I snapped a couple
shots of Paeonia lactiflora 'Buckeye Belle' yesterday, between rain showers.
It's the most intense red ever, almost black-red in bud, a truly striking
variety.

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Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States
antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5
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