From these last series, they've received a long warm period and will now go into cold storage. Here the two…
An article about the Dutch peony growing business. Molenaar and Scholten being interviewed.
https://www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2026/06/01/populariteit-van-nederlandse-pioenrozen-neemt-toeShort? At my place it reached upto 100cm. Great plant, seedlings were disappointing. Single flowers with common and ugly colours.
I planted a portion of Flevo Star this early spring and it took well and made a couple of main buds. My interest is the foliage so I have crossed it with Sparkling Windflower. The other flower and the laterals were left to open pollination. I would be interested in knowîng about fertility of Flevo Star both as pod and pollen parent. Any…Read More
Flevo Star has some fertility. Maybe some effort is needed but I have raised some 20-30 seedlings until yet. I never have used the pollen for hybridisation.
For nice and beautiful foliage I would recommend to cross it with Salmon Dream.
Sparkling Windflower has a nodding flower, bad colour and louzy habitus.
Strong Coral (from Old Faithful x Coral Charm).. These are second year plants, they’ll increase a lot over time. Fades beautifully I think. You can see the Paeonia peregrina background still in the lobes on the leaflets.
This may look as a common seedling. Not special and multi petal/ semi double flower.
It’s a seedling from Flevo Star. Probably from pollen with Blushing Princess.
After discarding several seedlings from Flevo Star with dull single flower this seedling indicates that Flevo Star has (hopefully) doubleness in its genes.
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An english translation for those not speaking Dutch…