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(23,294 posts)Thats gorgeous. My peonys havent even ventured out of the dirt yet.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,516 posts)Especially the drops!
Love the texture of the petals and the shape overall.
I wonder what it would look like in color.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)Black and white and some tweaking of different levels bring out the textures.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)We're going to have heavy rain tomorrow, so they will take a beating. I'm afraid they will break
JDC
(10,114 posts)sheshe2
(83,637 posts)Bravo.
I love Peonies.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)My favorite happy flower. Bold. Bright. Beautiful and whimsical.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)MLAA
(17,238 posts)Mersky
(4,979 posts)Or dunk them in cold water to break the sticky coating on the closed buds. Was one of my favorite odd tasks at the flower shop I worked at some years ago.
Your photo is lovely. I like the rhythm of the droplets, and the petals look massive like they are of concrete.
I guess ants like that sticky stuff, and in return the peony petals are freed to open, rain or no rain.
Mersky
(4,979 posts)Can't really grow them down in Texas. Enjoy those blooms.
I hope you aren't in the flood zone.
Mersky
(4,979 posts)Last week we received 8 inches in one day, but, tg, the standing water didn't threaten the house. My peeps in Houston weathered last night okay.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)It is hard to avoid living on a flood plain.
A man on my former mail route put his house on cinder blocks in response to a 100 year flood. A few years later another flood hit. It was a foot higher than what he built for. We had 10 in one day. In places the flood water was 18.
I had to drive some 30 miles out of my way to find a road that wasnt flooded. I had to drive to the next county to find a safe route home.
Callalily
(14,885 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,372 posts)So much texture. Love the raindrops.
I had peonies in Missouri and Nebraska. Never had much of a garden here in NC because we had so much shade from all the trees. Now I have two pots of pansies on my balcony and a potted dwarf spruce. That's it. So I really get vicarious pleasure from the flower photos posted here. Thanks!