Wednesday, June 23, 2010

FASHION PARADE: PEONIES

With this post I would like to make a luxurious summer parade of Peonies, having gone triumphantly through a blog of a fabulous photographer Georgianna Lane, last a bit longer. In Georgianna's blog you can enjoy watching the stunning photography and have a delightful reading as well at Paean-to-Paeony, Peony-Passion and Farewell-Peonies.

Well, these 4 sorts of peonies are from our garden, but pity that I can not tell you their names. A few attempts to detect their sorts by catalogues were not successful, because some peonies are looking really very similar. So I guess only a specialist could distinguish subtle differencies between one sort and the other. But if any of you could recognize or have any suggestions of what sorts these are, please do let me know;)

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Peony

Peony like water-lily

Peony

Peonies in the garden

3 comments:

Georgianna said...

Hi Zara! You're so sweet to link to my peony posts – thank you very much!

Your photos are beautiful, as always. How lucky you are to have so many peonies in your own garden. They truly are the queen of flowers. I'm afraid I don't know the names of these either. Fortunately, we can enjoy their beauty without knowing!

Have a lovely day. xo – g

Zara said...

Thank you Georgianna, I am so glad to hear you liked the photos, I feel honored!!
If I'm not mistaken, there are about 6000 sorts of peonies in the world, so.. wish me luck with my searches:))

zoe said...

they are gorgeous! lucky you, with such a garden :)