Nat's Peonies Emerging in 2017 - Via Foster Care In Naperville
Yesterday, I posted a photo of our foster-care hosta out in Naperville , but it isn't the only plant we have in my in-laws yard. There are a few others including an Ostrich Fern, a miniature hosta and this peony plant above. This peony plant was given to Nat by her Aunt from Tennessee, I believe and has it's roots in one of their Great Aunt's gardens from years ago. Back in 2010, I posted this piece about these very ferns and their origin story . I've covered Nat's peonies over the years here on the blog. You can see the full peony archive here . These are being fostered by Nat's mom and after being transplanted late in the summer in 2015, had a pretty rough year last year. Nat's mom is a pretty good gardener and thanks to her, we had these beauties survive. We brought them over in the middle-of-summer heat (that's when we moved out!), and she got them in the ground and kept them wet as they tried to establish themselves. I wasn't that