peonies change color
marcincon
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cynqueen
16 years agolast modified: 9 years agobemidjigreen
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Color changing... NOT changing color!
Comments (3)Chances are these new hydrangeas will perform like the hydrangeas you already have. That is surviving, but never blooming unless you winter protect them. Living in Zone 4 I have never bothered to try figuring it is a lost cause. However I do have several Endless Summer hydrangeas that bloom nicely despite freezing to the ground each year. "... no mention of what zone they can be grown in, or any mention of the botanical name." For future reference, this should raise a red flag. A gardening site should provide both botanical names and hardiness ratings. Even then, I would check several references for hardiness since it is not an absolute or some websites have a tendency to be "generous" with the ratings on the cold end of the spectrum. Or websites will just say "hardy", but that seems to me to mean it will survive in zone 6. Or the plant may be hardy, like the hydrangeas you have, but the websites don't mention that it will never bloom. You can get good info on a forum like this before you buy or check with a local, reputable garden center. They will either not sell the plant or sell it with the warning that it needs winter protection....See MoreFestina Maxima peony changing color
Comments (3)I find that each years color is slightly different and most of the cause is weather and growing conditions. Festiva Maxima is supposed to be white with flecks of red. Sometimes the flecks are large sometimes very small. I did receive confirmation at this years APS meeting that whites tend to have a pinkish cast when the weather is cool. One of the growers from the west coast could not show very many whites because many that they brought were pink rather than bright white. Peonies can cross pollenate but it takes 3 to 7 years for a plant to grow from seed to blooming size. Some take even longer to obtain mature flowers and plant structure....See MorePeonies (flowers) changing colour?
Comments (3)It's amazing that this old post has come to life again. John, I do believe you are correct about the PH, but could it be 'wrong' if they bloomed? Maybe different? Since this post, I had the experience of moving pink peonies which had stopped blooming because a tree grew and put them in too much shade. I relocated them to a full sun bed and they eventually bloomed with the same colour. The soil is approximately the same since we have put down topsoil on all the gardens. I am looking forward to their blooms right now. Today I went out and staked them and they are loaded with buds. They make such lovely cut flowers....See Morepeony, peony where are you?
Comments (2)Hi annsch...my sigranite is metallic grey. It looked a little lighter in the sample when i picked it out but I am happy with the color anyway. I agonized between stainless and this silgranite. I decided in the end that this sink would always look like new and the water spotting in the stainless would drive me crazy. I ended up ordering it through Amazon because the KD couldn't match the price. They wanted about $200 more. I think I pd $590. My countertop is Cambria New Quay--a great match for the metallic grey....See Morekimberlyk57
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