2005 Events of the Society
Peony Week in Québec
July 1st - 5th, 2005
Le Jardin le Florilège, Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce, home of Claude Quirion and Clemence. A beautiful garden filled with hemerocallis, peonies and many other wonderful plants |
Front entrance at the gardens |
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Claude explains the different types of peonies |
Paulin and Lisette Tanguay share their peony petal jelly with visitors |
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Price of admission on the day of the peony visit – one peony! |
Claude, Clémence, and Rock Giguère (Québec Director of CPS) enjoy the admission fees |
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Normand Thérriault with ‘Alice Harding’ in his garden in Sainte-Hélène-de- Kamouraska |
‘Ama-No-Sode’ in Normand's Garden |
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‘Old Faithful’ in Normand's Garden |
‘Going Bananas’ Itoh peony photographed during visit to Pivoines Capano in Chicoutimi, QC |
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Itoh peonies on a rainy day in the nursery in Chicoutimi |
Radio Canada captures the visit, as Mano shows some of her species peonies |
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Hybridizing peonies |
The foggy trip back across the St Lawrence |
Copyright Canadian Peony Society 2006 |
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