Saturday, May 31, 2014

Peony Planets


Late in the day I went out to the side garden to look at the Peonies which I could see had flowers.  At least I thought they were flowers.  I am not sure what you call these - are they actually buds?  I was surprised when I saw these magenta balls up close - the first thing that came to me was that they looked like planets in orbit because they were so perfectly round.  The trick was to move around until the buds were in an interesting arrangement.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I will never look at Peony buds the same again. :-)
Joan

Ken Spencer said...

I was so surprised to see the buds all rolled up tight like this this. I saw the color pink from the house, but was blown away when I saw that they were not flowers in bloom, but tightly wrapped spheres!