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The First Peony - 'Shima-Nishiki'

The Tree Peony 'Shima-Nishiki' is the first to bloom. The name means "fire flame" in Japanese, an apt title to describe the red blooms striped with white. Occasionally, there are solid red blooms. Every year this peony gets better and seemingly overnight, the puny-looking bare branches are suddenly fleshed out with a tremendous profusion of leaves. The bush is dense, forming a 4 ft. mound. Our plant resides at the top of one of the terrace beds in back where it gets some morning sun and dappled sun (mostly shade) for the remainder of the day.  We have many peonies in the garden and they all came from Adelman Peony Gardens in Salem, Oregon. It is worth a drive just to see their beautiful display garden in May. Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

It won't be long now...

It has been so cold and dreary lately and Spring is like a distant memory. Our patience should be rewarded in just three or four weeks with scenes like the following (fingers crossed) -

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  1. Nice video clip, Phillip! Lately I have been trying to jazz up my blog with a few videos also. Let us all THINK SPRING and cross our fingers no rogue, late bitter hard freeze will hit later this month just as things start budding out! Best regards, Jon in Vicksburg, MS on 2-1-08

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  2. Really cool time lapse photography! I wanted to try that but never found the time to hang around long enough to snap pictures every few minutes. ;) Spring's just around the corner.

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  3. Hang on Phillip ! You've got a real bad case of Spring fever that is sure to be cured soon. I'm next door down in Tampa getting the cure ( sunshine ) for my winter blues .

    Chicago is under a foot of snow.

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  4. Looks like today [Saturday] in Florence is our spring shot to get us through February.

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