Tree Peony

I finally have a tree peony in flower - it was a gift from a friend, and has suffered from being shifted around the garden. This spring, settled at last in the Willow Tree Garden, it is flowering.

Since tree peonies are deciduous they're easy to forget about over a winter - in fact this one is lucky it wasn't dug up or planted over by something else! The colour is rather subtle and very beautiful - the most brownish-red flower I've seen in the garden.