'Bowl of Beauty' Peony is famous for its huge, hot-pink outer petals that surround a soft and frilly ivory-yellow center, with each bloom measuring up to 10" across.
One of the most attractive peonies available, and one of my faves to photograph ..
Tags: Bowl of Beauty peony coth5 NGC NPC Bowl of Beauty Peony
Meconopsis baileyi is native to Tibet and the Himalayan mountains.
Some of the first specimens of Himalayan blue poppy in North America were grown by Jennie Butchart in the mid-1920s
Tags: Meconopsisbaileyi NGC
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This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready
to break my heart
as the sun rises,
as the sun strokes them with his old, buttery fingers
and they open —
pools of lace,
white and pink —
and all day the black ants climb over them,
boring their deep and mysterious holes
into the curls,
craving the sweet sap,
taking it away
to their dark, underground cities —
and all day
under the shifty wind,
as in a dance to the great wedding,
the flowers bend their bright bodies,
and tip their fragrance to the air,
and rise,
their red stems holding
all that dampness and recklessness
gladly and lightly,
and there it is again —
beauty the brave, the exemplary,
blazing open.
Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden,
and softly,
and exclaiming of their dearness,
fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,
with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling,
their eagerness
to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are
nothing, forever?
["Peonies" by Mary Oliver]
Tags: peony NGC Bowl of Beauty Peony
not sure of the name of this amazing flower ???
.. Columbia Lily
thanks Alan
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