APS Zoom seminar:
Winter 2026 Zoom Seminars – Saturdays at 10:30 am CST
January 24: “Contemporary European Hybridizers and their Cultivars” – Koen Hurtekant (Belgium). Learn about the people creating new peonies in the old continent. European hybridizers, well-known and lesser known, professionals and amateurs: what have they done, what are their goals? The personalities and their creations. These are some who may be discussed: Fawkner, Scholten, Gamoletti, Giessler, Shulze, Gorobets, Rat, Wajgert, Sekerka, Mandrona, Bijman, Warmerdam, Banketov, and Maschke.
Open to the public, you don’t have to be an APS-member. Registration link: HERE
After registration, you’ll receive a link by e-mail where you can click on to follow the presentation.
10:30 CST is 8:30 Los Angeles; 11:30 New York; 16:30 London, 17:30 Brussels, 18:30 Kyiv, 19:30 Istanbul, 00:30 Jan 25th Beijing,…
The Powerpoint presentation can already be downloaded here (90 MB)
Older Bulletins from the American Peony Society (APS) can be downloaded or read here. All are available up through 2006. For current APS Bulletins and other benefits please consider membership in the APS.
Paeonia was an international newsletter for peony hybridizers and all issues are available for download. It was published quarterly from April 1970 to spring 2002.
. Excited to learn and connect!
SPIN
Species Peonies International Network
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