Besides its blooms, I think peonies have the loveliest spring foliage! Every early spring, I look forward to see purple, red, green pips popping out of the ground. The hybrids and the species have the nicest foliage IMHO. Some tree peony foliage is really beautiful too.

THis is Nova. I think its pips with the enlarged furry buds are so adorable!


Blonde Vision has such pretty light green foliage


Pink Fernleaf comes up light green and stays light green up until bloom time.

Thanks, Karen, for this thread! I love early peony foliage!
Merry Mayshine

Roselette

Little Red Gem

Mollis

Early Scout

Sugar 'n Spice

Ludovica

Mahogany

Wow, those are really beautiful, Anya! They look like miniature palm trees! The ones with buds look like coconut trees with fruits! Sugar 'n Spice is so cute! I love them! I like how tall your stems grow before the foliage starts to open. That is so interesting! Mine are all so short. Please post more!

I do enjoy looking at the foliage. Here are some photos.



Red Crown with Jade and Pearls



Paeonia tenuifolia



Early Scout

Beautiful, LG! Red Crown with Jade and Pearls foliage is gorgeous! Its spring foliage is so colorful. I too have Early Scout and Double fernleaf and I agree they are as beautiful as the pictures you show.

Wow, Red Crown with Jade and Pearls has very interesting foliage! When I see new growth of peonies in late spring I get very excited
Red and pink P. tenuifolia

Mollis

Little Red Gem

Salmon Dream

Walter Mains

Quitzin

Roselette

Sunny Girl

Solfatare

Anyone with Golden Angel?

Adorable, Anya! Love the red shade on your Roselette. Little Red Gem is so pretty.

Alex, I got Golden Angel this fall. Should see some beautiful foliage this coming spring!

Very nice, Anya. So how do make sure the emerging peony stems have room to come up through that landscape fabric?

LG, I watch them every day or even more often! Once I see a shoot which does not have a way to grow I cut the fabric, I like to see how peonies expand Early Scout is the fastest peony in our garden, it grew in a big clump so fast so I wish it stop growing any more

Excellent Anya!! I watch mine to make sure nothing is bothering them. Sometimes rabbits start a nest by the stems!!

Red Charm with a rabbit snack



Salmon Dream

Just want to thank everyone who posted their beautiful peonies blooms and foliage on the color threads. Hopefully, we will have more participants next year if there is continued interest.

Karen, it is always fun to see peony photos in the middle of winter. Glad you suggested it. Three months from now I should have my first peony blooms. Unless the weather gets wacky and freezes them!!

Every time I see one of the threads updated I kick myself for not having pics organized and named! I check the forum daily to see if there are new entries; definitely want to see them every year!

I enjoyed looking at the pictures, thanks Karen for making the threads! I check the Forum every day.

I am just not sure if the threads are redundant as many have gone on to Facebook. But I like to post on here because it is easier to go back to look for certain pics and flowers to check them out again. It is much harder to do that on Facebook. There are so many wonderful pics, posts and info on Facebook but they just get buried so quickly. If you don't happen to be on the scene when the posts are made, you can easily miss them.

I really enjoy these threads and the beautiful pics that all have shared. I am glad to know that you all enjoy them as well. I simply can't grow all peonies varieties so it is especially nice to see pics of varieties that are not in my garden. It is also very interesting to see blooms in other areas of the US and other countries as well esp. in winter now when I don't have a lot of gardening errands on my mind. Strange as it may sound but i really like the foliage thread the best! Wish we can see more pics of good fall peony foliage. Some years, I have had very beautiful fall foliage on some peonies. This year and the one before being so wet, the peonies all had terrible powdery mildew by August.

I am looking forward to spring and all the beautiful peonies blooms that will come with it. Being so warm here, my snowdrop is already blooming! If this warm spell keeps up, we all may have an early spring.

Karen, I am enjoying posts here also and totally agree that info on FB gets buried quickly and I cannot go back to what I liked before and I am sure I miss a lot if I don't go there every day. I already posted fall foliage pictures and am glad to post them again in this thread.
The Mackinac Grand

Magical Mystery Tour

Pastelegance

Peter Brand

I like both. FB gets pretty rude at times but there are so many people and some amazing pics. This forum feels more like friends sharing their gardens!

Oh I like to post here! It is more organized than the FB pages.

I feel that we have good discussions also. I've learned so much since joining.

I can't wait for Spring!!