Often when Peonies have been in bloom torrential rains have nearly ruined them.
One of my experiences was a four or five inch snow-storm on the 3d of May after a month of warm spring weather, when German Iris and many other things were in full bloom, and Peonies in bud.
Then about mid-April come Tea Roses--and at the end of April or soon after the Peonies and Sweet Peas.
The Crocus season opens in early March; Daffodils follow a little later; late Tulips and German Iris come near May 1; Sweet William and Peonies about May 20; and soon after the Delphiniums and Hollyhocks appear.
The peonies are more than ten feet high; and when the flowers are in bloom the effect is that of gorgeous tapestry.
Those peonies doubtless were started years ago from one or two roots.
Peonies come up year after year, iris takes care of itself, helianthus or perennial sunflower bobs up each year.
Then he retraced his steps to the house and entered the deserted garden where pearl-tinted spikes of iris perfumed the air and great masses of peonies nodded along borders banked deep under the long wall.
The roses haven't changed a bit, nor have the peonies stranged a bit, They bud and bloom the way they did before the war began.
All are gone from our sight, many from our memory, and often too from our ken, while the Lilacs and Peonies and Flowers de Luce still blossom and flourish with perennial youth, and still claim us as friends.
The single Peonies of recent years are of great beauty, and will soon be esteemed here as in China.
Illustration: Persian Lilacs and Peonies in Garden of the Kimball Homestead, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Some of the Tree Peonies have finely displayed leafage of a curious and very gratifying tint of green.
Why, I know about your garden because I have stood a thousand, thousand times leaning on my hoe in my own garden, discussing those peonies with old Mrs. Belham who lived there before you.
There is a border of peonies there, splendid pink ones, and you're likely to break off the shoots.
The peonies puffed themselves up in order to be larger than the roses, but size is not everything!
The peonies were sulky; it was well that they could not speak, otherwise they would have given the daisy a good lecture.
Large poppies and peonies had pea-shells for instruments, and blew into them till they were quite red in the face.
A vendor with whom she often dealt held up some bunches of pink and white peonies for her inspection.
Who but yourself would have thought of putting these pink peonies close to all them crimson poppies, and then throwing up the colour with this bunch of green.
A white cream is chosen, the hearts of the largest pink peonies are cut out, a round of waxed paper laid in the place, and a heaping, rounded spoonful of the cream is placed in the flowers.
The ice cream may be in the pond-lily flowers, prepared as were the peonies in the June luncheon.
Any one of the menus previously given will do to serve until the final course is reached, when the ice cream is to appear in the peonies themselves.
Peonies form large woody roots, with little knobs or crowns on them.
German or English Iris and peonies are two very useful plants for this purpose, flowering in May and June and for the rest of the season holding their substantial, well-set-up foliage.
The breath of blown Peonies scents the summer air along with the languorous odor of the mock-orange flowers.
Mrs. Melcombe had left Melcombe while it was at its loveliest, all the hawthorns in flower, the peonies and lilies of the valley.
Odd flowers would not hold conversations any more, tiger-lilies and peonies bother each other, the tigers being snappish and the peonies fat, slow, and irritating.
Before Gracia's hair had abandoned yellow braids and become mysterious, when she learned neat sewing and cross-stitch, she used to set the tigers and peoniesquarrelling to express her own feelings about neat sewing and cross-stitch.
It was the middle of a bright spring morning, when we started off, grandfather leaning on his cane and holding to my arm, while I carried the great clump of red peonies and white syringas.
The peonies and syringas were in bloom, and grandmother had the bouquet made up ready.
Yonder group Of scarlet peonies hath ringed about A lordly fellow with ten witnesses Of his official rank.
Here in the evening the favourite reclined, watching the peonies vie with the sunset beyond.
Just underneath flamed a tangle of peonies in bloom, leaning down to the calm blue waters.
By using lots of the seed of Rachel we have been able to produce this Mary Brand, considered by many of the peony growers as one of the finest red peonies in the world.
On peonies and roses the result seems to be very good.
His immense collection of peonies gave him the idea of producing something better along that line.
Peonies are late this year, none being out at this time.
I want to compliment you on having very fine peonies, some of them finer than I have ever seen, and I hope you will all be as enthusiastic about raising peonies as I am.
Brand, of Faribault, who had an extraordinary exhibit of seedling peonies at the meeting, pronounced by our peony expert, Mr. C.
I have brought here today of course a great many peonies of the later varieties.
The peony, it is true, will stand more abuse than any other flower you can name and still give fairly good results, but if you want good peonies you must take good care of them.
Now if any of you are tempted to growpeonies from seed let me warn you not to get too enthusiastic in anticipating results.
Our peonies were a mass of exceedingly beautiful flowers, filling the air with fragrance as of roses.
Peonies were then sold as red peonies, white peonies and pink peonies, and that was all there was to it, and the customer felt very lucky if he got the color he ordered.
Most of the peonies that are brought here are taken out of fields that are cultivated with a horse cultivator.
August and September are considered the best months to do fall planting, although some advocate setting peonies until it freezes.
Plant peonies any time from the first of September until the time it freezes up and plant any time in the spring until the growth starts on the plants.
I've got this whole town beat on peonies and pumpkins.
In his hand he had five or six peonies as large as saucers.
Like snowballs tossed, Like soft white butterflies, The peonies poise in the twilight.
Like spraying rockets My peonies shower Their glories on the night.
The peonies spring like rockets in the twilight, And out of them all I rise.
On a shelf in the other alcove is a very valuable cabinet with sliding doors, on which peonies are painted on a gold ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peonies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
