The Peony Patch

Peony Season 2024

Peony Season 2024

Peony season at the farmlet always seems to arrive in a rush, but this year, it was even quicker than usual! Thanks to a warm late winter, everything kicked off much earlier, with the first Corals blooming in mid-October. By early November, the rest of the patch...
Peony Season 2022

Peony Season 2022

It was a wild spring in the ranges. Peony season started on the 29th October with the early Coral Peonies. The rest of the patch started the appear in early November. I picked our final peony on the 2nd December. We had a few groups in to pick this year and a big...
Peony Season 2021

Peony Season 2021

This years peony season was wild. The weather in Melbourne was much colder and wetter than average, plus a couple of massive storms. Luckily the peonies didn’t seem to mind too much. I was away at the beginning of the season visiting family in Tassie, but I...
Our lockdown pool

Our lockdown pool

Living in the Yarra Valley, an hour outside of Melbourne, we are are usually treated as rural (especially when it comes to deliveries). Unfortunately during the Covid-19 pandemic all of a sudden we became part of metropolitan Melbourne and got locked down with...