Gardeners World is back!

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Watching now on BBC2. Oh I have missed Monty!

I can recommend Kelways for top quality peonies. You won’t have to wait for them to flower - although you’ll pay accordingly 😬

www.kelways.co.uk/category/peonies/1/

Ah, unfortunately I'm not in the UK. Not quite sure why I'm on a British gardening forum... Maybe I was drawn here by Monty

But thank you. I will look at the pictures anyway

Interesting attempt by Monty to film the links in last night's show himself.

It was very obvious though - especially juxtaposed with the properly filmed bits of the show.

Wonder how long they'll be able to carry on with this?

That one was planted about 10 years ago. I think it took a year or two to flower first, can't remember the variety :) It's quite a nice bush the rest of the time :)

Always Me too but we're midwest Fr. our weather is very similar to Sth. England's.( I'm often over there caring for Mum) and visiting the kids. When you think of the differences in climate just in GB it's fine to be on this forum. Unless you're somewhere like Bahrain or the Arctic !! I suppose!

VenusClapTrap - absolutely agree with you - Kelways peonies are amazing. I used to live near their nursery in Somerset and after Chelsea you'd see all the peonies they'd bought back which were available to buy - an amazing selection. I left all my peonies in our old garden when we moved - it was that hot summer last year and it would have been sacrilege to do anything else. I've now got a woodland garden in Gloucestershire and have started planting more peonies - so far a double bright red tree peony under a flowering cherry, a dark red herbaceous peony in front of a photinia and one pale pink and one dark red in the borders in the terrace near the house. Some more arrived yesterday, a coral herbaceous one which I plan to underplant with geranium endressii Wargrave Pink, and two intersectional peonies - one pale mauve and one pale yellow. The pale mauve will go under a magnolia tree and the yellow in front of a yellow variegated evergreen shrub. Still awaiting two white ones - one with a yellow boss and one splashed with dark pink. It's wonderful to have the challenge of a much smaller garden but exciting that it's woodland, compared to our challenging garden in Somerset, which we bought as a farmer's field. I hope our lovely buyers enjoy seeing all those peonies coming into bloom - she did say she was going to leave the garden alone for a year to see what came up.
I thought I would miss my greenhouse, but I've managed to germinate seed in the garden room and then prick out into a large cold frame. So far I've germinated a load of foxgloves from seed I saved from my Somerset garden - Pam's Split, white, yellow and peach foxgloves. So will plant them out in the autumn under the trees. Also got some nice white peony type poppies coming on, as well as sweet peas to trail over an ornamental low fence and cosmos for pots for the terrace. I love gardening - it keeps me sane while in lockdown and unable to see my lovely daughter and beautiful ten month old grandson!!!

I've got to be nice to my husband to get him to dig holes for those peonies today - the ground is very hard and full of tree roots!!!!

Lucky you to be able to buy those peonies or do they give them away? Also Daphne I would LOVE to have some foxgloves but no luck yet because last year I couldn't keep the seeds damp for long enough to germinate them! I might try again now, lockdown is useful for somethings!

Ooh DaphneduM that’s a fantastic peony splurge! It is a real silver lining about moving house that although you leave a cherished garden behind, you also get to walk away from all its problems and then start again afresh with a new garden, and go on a plant shopping spree!

We moved here seven years ago and I’m still working my way through this garden; clearing borders one at a time, tinkering with their dimensions and replanting. Lockdown has given me the precious opportunity to tackle a quite major tranche of it, and I put in an order for 178 plants this week! Too excited.

Just about to catch up on GW and picked up on here that there will be peonies! So any excuse to show mine off - here are two - the red was split from my late mum’s garden, so is very special to me, and the pink is Bowl of Beauty - it’s five years old and is my best bloomer, maybe 20 flower heads a year. I also have Shirley Temple, and a surprise one I bought without a label from a garden centre’s shite shelf last year. Can’t wait to see what it’ll be.

Oooh how lovely Chock How did you 'split' that one from your mum's garden? I'm thinking about splitting mine. But I've heard they don't like being moved , did you do anything special?

@ppeatfruit to be honest it was a while back and my mum’s cousin did it because I was terrified, but he did it in the autumn. It only flowered one bloom the following year, but has recovered since then. It has actually been split twice - the original plant came from my late grandma’s garden and my mum split it between her and her sister, so that’s proof they can go on for years. I should probably split the Bowl Of Beauty this autumn now I think about it - it’s getting a little too big. There are instructions here that look pretty detailed. www.claireaustin-hardyplants.co.uk/blog/moving-and-dividing-peonies

Oh thanks a lot . That is very helpful

Just seen the sad news about Nigel :(