Peonies

I am having a peony conversion.  I now think I love the
single blooming blossoms over the double ones.  Wow!
I did not think that would happen.  My outdoor gardens
are full of blooming peonies.....A lovely time of the gardening
year.  I have both a pink and white "single-blooming" bushes.
I have only one complaint about peonies......I wish the
stalks were more sturdy and would stand upright, not
sinking to the grass level when heavily ladden with blooms.

Here is a bit of poetry for you!


Paeonia Testimonial

Pioneers traveled with plantings.
Along to give lasting connection
Twixt home and distant homestead.

Peonies rooted in new surroundings.
A symbol of home midst struggle
Still there when owners long-gone.

Testimony by worthy competitors
Standing tall against knotted grasses
Pushing forth blooms through the years.

Blossoms, blushing pink, white and Rose,
Against foundations of past lives;
Fragrantly nodding to whispered breezes.

Be it overgrown cemetery or homestead,
These plantings stay to give testimony
Of what was there and will be no more!

Molly LeGreve Karjala