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 Don't you just love Peonies?  I have so many around our house....they just get so tall and fill out so big.  Then the blossoms...  The blossoms are just amazing...bigger than my hand. Stand so tall and then the wind comes up and down they go.....mine are white with just specks of pink and then at the end I have one red plant.  This  year it came up big and tall and had about 5 blossoms on it.  The smell is just amazing also.  The ones around our wagon spread out all over the fence.  Last year a man stopped by and asked if he could pick a couple for his wife.  He said he was laid off and no money and it was his wife's birthday. So hubby and I said ok go ahead.  This year he came back and asked again.  We asked how he was doing and he said real good a nice job and money coming in.   So why then do you need to pick our flowers....He said "because they are pretty".  So we said "no not this year".  We really don't want him to make a habit of pi