Tree Peonies and Other Beauties

Spring in a Connecticut garden

Today we ’re visiting with Elle Ronis in her Stamford , Connecticut , garden . We ’ve visit this incredible garden before ( Flowers Big and Small ) , and it is always a pleasure to see the beauties Elle has growing .

Troughs full of tinyrock - gardenplants in bloom dividing line with the tremendous peak of tree peonies all around them .

The scarlet leaves of ‘ Rainbow ’ Nipponese maple ( Acerpalmatum‘Rainbow ’ , Zones 5–9 ) echo the rich red colour of a tree diagram paeony . Tree peonies are a group of coinage and hybrid in the genusPaeoniathat , rather of dying back to the ground each winter , grow lasting woody stems to form small shrubs . They are hardy to Zones 4–7 , sometimes surviving in Zone 8 or even Zone 9 .

Tree peonieshave immense , striking flower like nothing else in the garden . Elle grows 50 tree paeony in her garden .

Itohpeoniesare hybrids between tree paeony and herbaceous peony . They are named for Toichi Itoh , a Japanese plant life stock breeder who produce the first hybrids of this form , which are some of the most vigorous peonies you may grow .

In this flurry of baby pinkish heyday on a weigela ( Weigelaflorida , Zones 4–8 ) , the pale pink flowers contrast beautifully with the dark fore . young selections of weigela make myopic , compact shrub , but it is grueling to gravel the ravisher of a immense , old weigela in full bloom if you have space for it .

The pink of the weigela echoes in a pinkClematismontana(Zones 5–11 ) train up along the roofline .

More bowl containers , home tosmall perennial and shrubs .

Acerpalmatum‘Toyama Nishiki ’ is a endearing variegatedJapanese maple . Nishikimeans “ patterned , brocade textile ” in Japanese and is often used in the cultivar name ofvariegated plants .

Acerpseudoplatanus‘Esk Sunset ’ ( Zones 4–7 ) has dramatic motley foliage , but be trusted to cut back out any all - greenish arm if they develop , as they will quickly take over from the variegate leaves .

‘ Violet ’s Pride ’ rose

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