I’m sharing some white peonies to complement my recent gallery of white roses. As before, I’ll trust the peonies will speak for themselves.
Finally, one that makes me smile. The huge peony flower is surrounded by the camellia’s foliage and the camellia flower seems to be looking up, thinking, “Fancy stealing my thunder like that!”
Shared for HeyJude’s Life in Colour challenge. The single roses proved more popular than the doubles last time and I’m wondering if the same will hold true for the peonies.
Susan Rushton 
Pretty peonies and whites.
At the time they are all wow, but I know of no other flower more prone to turn out to be evenly dusted with soil when you look at a picture more closely.
Lovely photographs
Thanks, Derrick.
Very lush and showy. Your last observation made me laugh. That camellia is certainly overshadowed by that bossy peony.
Tough luck for the camellia. 🙂 The picture makes them look as if they have swopped foliage too.
Yup, singles for me. I love all the textures here, silks and crepe paper, taffeta and lace. #4 and 7 are superb.
The singles do show off their petal textures better as you point out and the sun finds them easier to backlight.
I do love peonies – nice set, Susan.
Thanks, Eliza.
Peonies are more complex, aren’t they? My favourite shot is that first, Susan 🙂 🙂
I’m glad you liked that one. I wondered whether to include it. It happened more by accident than good judgement.
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Peonies are our favorites for the gardens in the yard. We’ve several varieties (don’t ask me their names) of both herbaceous and tree. A few are white, single and double. Yours are lovely. The last could almost pass for a carnation.
It was very full, almost as full as a carnation, but about five times the size.
Those peonies look gorgeous and I almost can smell the blooms across the internet.
Such a brief season of flower, but so worth it.
WHITE! AH!
You know though, . . . as much as I like white, I think that ‘Festiva Maxima’ is my favorite peony. I know that there are much better white peonies available, without those red specks that ‘Festiva Maxima’ gets. However, ‘Festiva Maxima’ is the one that is most commonly available here, supposedly because it is more tolerant of the minimal chill. Besides, the floral form is sort of what I expect a peony to look like.
I like those little red touches too.
Do they make the white seem to be more white?
Perhaps that’s it.
There’s something about white peonies that just elevates them about the rest! Lovely photos.
They are some of the most classically lovely garden flowers.