Valentine - REDs

Can’t let Valentine’s Day go by without a few REDs from the garden.  Nothing like this going on out there today with so much snow and cold these last weeks.  However, one hopes for the return of these REDs and so much more – SOON!!!

Enjoy

 Lets start with a RED sunrise in January

 RED Daylily at Locust,

parent of the day lily shown below.

 One of the RED Peony bushes

 RED Poppy

 This is a special RED Peony - grown in Guatemala

from a seed of the Peony shown above.

It bloomed the second year after germinating

and had more than 100 flowers! Must be the volcanic soils.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

 While we are looking at Guatemala,

here is a RED from a private garden I visited there.

 This is one of many Day-lilies

hybridized here in the Gardens at Waters East - #X3

 RED Geranium

 Here is a different RED Peony from the gardens here.

 RED Tulips

 This is another of the RED hybridized day-lilies #X1

 This RED is from a second private garden

I visited in Guatemala - brilliant

 RED Tulip

Gootendorf Rose - "shade"of RED.

Not the reddest RED - but I needed a Rose for Valentine's Day!