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California Peony
Paeonia californica, California peony
The California peony is blooming at the Regional Parks Botanic Garden at Tilden in Berkeley. I’d never seen one blooming before. To quote Las Pilitas, “You need perfect drainage, a very green thumb, and luck with this one.”
Paeonia californica, California peony
Deborah Small’s Ethnobotany Blog has a beautiful photo of one growing wild.
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California Peony going dormant
A photo of the peony going dormant in early July.
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