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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

More snow

We woke up to snow on Saturday morning. It didn't last long and was gone by mid-morning but I managed to get some photos before it melted.









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  1. Your garden looks so nice with the snow on it. Looks like a coating of frosting.

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  2. I guess it's easy to appreciate the artistic frosting when the duration is hours instead of months! Nice photos, Phillip!

    Annie at the Transplantable Rose

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  3. Snow on Camellias is not my idea of a scenic winter wonderland. I hope the blossoms are OK. The rest of your garden is enhanced by the temporary frosting. Lovely pics!

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  4. Phillip, I hope that was the last cold snap we are going to have. How crazy is this weather acting? 77 degrees one day snow a couple of days later.

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  5. Pretty, but I hope it didn't harm your camellia flowers.

    By the way, I'd love to see a post about your purple wall. How it fits into your garden, how it was constructed, etc.

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  6. I was just asking about the weather in 'Bama and didn't scroll down and see this post !

    Now that's the kind of snow that I like -short and sweet. Hope it didn't harm anything.

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  7. It is prety, but I'm so over snow!

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