Thursday, November 21, 2019

Peony Farewell

The last of the Coral Charm peony flowers this morning at 6:44am:
And the same flower this evening at 6:35pm:

In between was a hot and very windy day. Northern parts of the state were declared as "Code Red" fire danger. Here we were only at "Very High", because until yesterday you would hardly know it is nearly summer. We've had cooler and wetter weather here; we are not baked dry like many places further north. Have a look at our temperatures for the last 7 days, with the colours I used for my temperature quilt:

21/11/2019    37.1    magenta
20/11/2019    31.4    red
19/11/2019    20.4    yellow
18/11/2019    25.3    orange
17/11/2019    15.3    green
16/11/2019    13.0    aqua/teal
15/11/2019    15.7    green

We've had a bit of everything!



Although the peony flowers on the bush are now finished, it isn't the total end. I have a couple in a vase that I brought in before the hot days:
And there's another 5 buds that I cut and put in the fridge a couple of weeks ago. I'm hoping the internet is right when it says you can store peony buds in the fridge, and have them open when you take them out.

9 comments:

Pamela said...

From13 to 37 - wow!

Jeanette said...

What great foresight to bring the peonies indoors. The one in the vase is so beautifully soft with such delicate colouring.
As for the weather, at least no heatwave.

Marie Králová said...

Beautiful peonies of soft colors. Marie

Julierose said...

Oh here as soon as my lovely iris bloom we seem to get really heavy rains and they get all blown down...glad you saved some peonies for inside aroma and beauty...
;))) hugs, Julierose

jacaranda said...

Beautiful shades in your vase of peony. I had read that florists keep their peonies in a fridge. The wind was so strong yesterday it stripped our lemon tree of most of the fruit. We topped the highest suburban temperature at 42.4, I dislike summer.

Cheryll said...

The flowers are gorgeous...
shame about the wind though... xox

Pink Rose said...

Hi Vireya you have such an amazing garden full of such pretty flowers gee hasn't our weather been crazy,hope you have a wonderful weekend Vireya xx

ButterZ said...

A lovely rose. I love the range of temps all in one week. Our weather and dust storm was terrible.

Sue SA said...

Beautiful peony. The heat sapped my roses, but I have a few inside in the vase to enjoy still.