Tuesday 20 May 2008

Peonies











White and Pink Peonies
Belvedere Alpine Garden
Prince Eugene of Savoy's
Belvedere Palace
Prinz-Eugen-Strasse 27
Vienna, Third District


Photographed
April 29, 2008

23 comments:

  1. Anonymous20 May, 2008

    very beautiful collection

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  2. Aren't they the most exquisite flowers?
    We don't see them very often here - I think our climate is too harsh.
    But I would love to have a try at growing them.

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  3. Thank yo, EVLAHOS! :-)
    FREEFALLING:
    The need spring weather here too, the early ones at least, mostly tree peonies. Peony is my favorite flower. ;-)

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  4. Anonymous20 May, 2008

    Peonies are my absolute favorite flower. And it always seems that when they finally come into bloom, we get big thunderstorms that destroy them. I put vases full all through my house.

    Eileen (passions to pastry)@
    www.livingtastefully.com

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  5. wow! I'd love to have my house filled with vases of these beauties too.

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  6. What a great show of colour and the photos are well framed, great captures.

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  7. EILEEN:
    That is so true!
    I remember one garden in Washington, where the owners put a mobile roof over their peonies, to better protect them during the heavy thunderstorms that like to hit during May.

    ANN (MOBAYDP):
    I shall go to the farmers' market on Saturday morning, and get an armfull of those beauties. ;-)

    IMAC:
    Thank you! :-)

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  8. Funny I just saw great big fat hot pink peonies on 8th Avenue...
    Synchronicity?

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  9. There are white and pink peopnies in my garden, but they are not blooming yet. Such a lovely fragrance! But always accompanied by big black ants!

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  10. Peonies are my favorite, too. I remember as a child coming up the place we spent every summer, to discover that someone had tried to dig up the peonies in the border (but they didn't get the roots . . .)

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  11. These photos are so very beautiful..In Florida the weather is too hot for them...my daughter in upstate New York has them..they are so lovely...

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  12. Anonymous21 May, 2008

    lovely capture & color.

    Good to be back here ....!

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  13. Beautiful peonies. Pity they drop so quickly. We have red ones in our garden.

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  14. You could totally frame these and put them on your wall- how beautiful!

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  15. Of all the flowers, peonies are my favorite...mine haven't bloomed this year hopefully they will soon. These are so lovely!
    The coffee is on, I made petit fours just for you!
    Sandi

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  16. Simply gorgeous!

    David sent me - D

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  17. PARIS BREAKFAST:
    Synchronicity or serendipity, that is the question! ;-)

    EX-SHAMMICKITE:
    Those ants have great taste in flowers! ;-)

    TUT-TUT:
    What a shame!
    I read somewhere that peonies need up to five years to start blooming again after being transplanted.

    DEE-DEE:
    Amazingly they do bloom in the Washington, DC area, must be the fact that springs tend to be cooler there.

    RULZBENDER:
    Welcome back!
    I was afraid you'd gotten lost in the Valley of the Flowers, high in the Himalayan mountains. ;-)

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  18. MAGGIE MAY:
    When the nights are cool and the sun's out with rain in between, they seem to last longer. Unfortunately those perfect conditions rarely occur once they bloom.

    CHRISTINE:
    Welcome!
    I do like photos on the wall,
    black and white ones are my first choice, though.

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  19. SANDI MCBRIDE:
    You answered my question before I could ask it: How wonderful that peonies make it all the way down to South Carolina!
    I dropped in at your place last night, was VERY surprised to find a zucchini loaf instead of petit fours! :-)))

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  20. MOMMA:
    Welcome,
    and thank you for mentioning that David sent you! I had not realised that he had mentioned my post.

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  21. Breakfast until 6 p.m.?
    Hey! That is TOTALLY my kind of country!
    Sign me up for ham and eggs, over easy... at around 3 in the afternoon.
    And what does the rest of the sign say about Schremser beer?
    Something about "Why stop at 3? How about 4?"
    Once again.
    My kind of livin'.

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  22. I definetly love the viennese nature and flowers !!!

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  23. Such vivid lavender hues...

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