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Feb 23, 2014 9:43 AM CST
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Name: Linda
southern Minn. (Zone 4b)
Cat Lover Daylilies Hostas Region: Minnesota Peonies Garden Procrastinator
Garden Ideas: Level 1
Is there such a service as a website for peony photos similar to the Hosta Library? That site helps greatly in identifying hostas or verifying that you have what you think you have.
Individuals can send their photos to the web host for possible inclusion. I myself have sent in photos for hostas that were not represented at all or where I thought the existing photo/s were not very good photos. Also, when you see a gorgeous perfect picture in a catalog and think "I've got to have that one"... sometimes when you look it up on the Hosta Library you find a variety of pictures from different gardeners and discover that it doesn't always look as great as the catalog photo!
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Feb 23, 2014 12:21 PM CST
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Name: Liz Best
Columbiana Alabama (Zone 8a)
Annuals Winter Sowing Plant and/or Seed Trader Peonies Lilies Irises
Hummingbirder Dragonflies Dog Lover Daylilies Bee Lover Birds
If there is I haven't found it and I browse online for hours each week looking at different peonies! I do plan to take lots of pictures of mine this year to post to the peony database here, hopefully others will, too.

This and the garden web peony forum have some members with enormous amounts of peonies that post pics in the spring. They're also very willing to answer questions about specific varieties.

If you find a website that has lots of gardener provided flowers and reviews PLEASE post it back here, I'd love to see it.
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Feb 27, 2014 1:56 PM CST
Name: Frank Richards
Clinton, Michigan (Zone 5b)

Hydrangeas Peonies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Plant Identifier Garden Ideas: Master Level
For Peonies I like http://www.paeon.de/
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Feb 28, 2014 9:18 PM CST
Name: Diann
Lisbon, IA
Charter ATP Member Cat Lover Hostas Region: Iowa Lilies Peonies
Enjoys or suffers cold winters
You might also check The Heartland Peony Society. They have a nice gallery of peonies. http://www.peonies.org
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Mar 14, 2014 11:18 PM CST
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Name: Liz Best
Columbiana Alabama (Zone 8a)
Annuals Winter Sowing Plant and/or Seed Trader Peonies Lilies Irises
Hummingbirder Dragonflies Dog Lover Daylilies Bee Lover Birds
Was on Pinterest last night and did a search on specific peonies, quite a few are there with pictures from personal gardens. Have you looked there, alwaysbehindMN?
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Apr 8, 2014 11:22 PM CST
Name: Lyn
Weaverville, California (Zone 8a)
Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Sages Garden Ideas: Level 1
HelpMeFind.com has a peony database. The site is better known as a rose site and often users who post photos of their roses on the rose database accidentally post their rose photos to the peony database, so you may find some rose photos.

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Lyn
I'd rather weed than dust ... the weeds stay gone longer.
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