Our next door neighbors asked us to join them in visiting Linwood Gardens which is home to an extensive collection of tree peonies. Now I have seen peonies but these were different than the kind that pop up every spring. They have rough bark stems and grow larger each year. Joe and Sharon have now added three to their extensive beautiful gardens. They like a little shade so are perfect for this area. They are just stunning and come in quite a variety of colors! I took probably 200 pictures with a lot of macros in the bunch for inspiration! The flowers were large like hibiscus and you can see all the colors above. My Picasa album has about 65 pictures of all the different colors.
This was the view into one of the gardens. The pink bush is one of the tree peonies.
It was a cloudy day and it had rained last night so picture taking was perfect! This is kind of an ivory/pink variety.
A real pink one!
This was a yellow one with a crimson center.
A group of pink flowers!
The center of a white one!
This was a lavender/pink which looks like it has striations.
Of course I had to take a picture of the tree swallow guarding his or her nest.
And then there were the very noisy bullfrogs in the lily pond!
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Beautiful, Beth!
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