Kitschy PEONY?

This post "Kitschy Peony" was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden / Tyras Trädgård

Can a flower be Kitschy?

Today, the peonies starts to flower in my garden. It has been raining heavily the last few days and the poor branches on the peonies really need all the support they can get. I think this peony is a masterpiece, I know they can be almost too good on the edge to being vulgar, but still this is really what I need on a rainy day as this one. 

If you like growing you own food, then do visit KÖKSTRÄDGÅRDEN - The Kitchen Garden. It is in my native tongue but you can always push the translate button./ Tyra 

Paeon 'The Healer'

This post 'PAEON - The Healer' was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius-Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden/ Tyras Trädgård

At last!

 

We finally got rain!

 We have haven’t had any for ages. The lawn is severely burnt and looks dreadful. I wouldn’t say anything if it was August but it is just June.  Both April and May was extremely warm and everything exploded, the irises came and went very rapidly and so did the Lilacs and Poppies.

At this very moment all my darling Peonies are ‘in floribus’ and they are quite sensational, truly and utterly noticeable, you cannot just go passed them without saying or thinking -Wow!.  I took this photo in the light of the evening sun and I like it because it looks so pretty inside the flower. Don’t you agree?

I wonder if it has got the name  Paeon ( from greek myth.) 'The Healer' thanks to its healing properties. It is a medicinal plant and has been used as such for thousands of years. The peonies grown for medicinal  use in TCM today comes almost exclusively from China, Korea and Taiwan. It is not the same as I grow in my garden but it is of the same genus - Paeonia.

Peonies in Medicine "Arguably the first use of peonies by people was for their medicinal value. There is evidence that peonies were used extensively in both the Far East and Europe as long as two thousand years ago. Many parts of the plant are purported to have medicinal properties. Roots, bark, seeds and flowers were all believed to be of some medicinal use." read more... La Pivoinerie D'Aoust,  Peony Nursery