Sarah Bernhardt Peonies - Cut Flowers - May 2024
It is peony season around here. When we were first dating, Nat was a blogger. Her url was iheartpeonies dot com. The very first thing that we planted in our first garden was a Sarah Bernhardt peony that was a division from Nat's mom's garden. The story goes that the peony was her great aunt's peony that had been divided a number of times to be planted in various family member's gardens. That peony ended up back in Nat's Mom's garden when we moved out. I said - back in 2017 - that it was being 'fostered' . But, it has stayed there these seven-plus years. Our new garden didn't have any peonies. Until 2018 when I bought a couple of tubers. The first one was Sarah Bernhardt . The pink peony that you think of when you think of peonies. It has moved around a few times, but ended up IB2DWS and has grown quite a bit up there. Last year (2023), I declared was our first REAL 'Peony Season' . It w...