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<a class="wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip" title="<div class="wpg-tooltip-content"><p>Dbl. type; large; late. Globular white flowers on strong, medium tall stems. Seedling # 11-27.</p> </div>" href="https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/elsa-sass/" >Elsa Sass</a>, the last flowering one we use for cutting here. This marks the end of our peony cut flower season. A good one, these are third year plants. Last year the stems were a little thin and short, but they’ve made up for that now, taller and some 90% of stems very sturdy.
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+3&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a class=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; title=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;div class=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;wpg-tooltip-content&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p style=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;text-align: justify;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Lacti. Double. Late. Pink. This flower won the silver medal of the American Peony Society at St Paul in 1923, and we expect to find an especially beautiful flower if it is worthy of such an <a class="wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip" title="<div class="wpg-tooltip-content"><p>22". Single, pink bright, rather large. Stamen stems long white with cream tops, near white pistils. </p> </div>" href="https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/honor/" >honor</a>. Those who know this have not been disappointed. It is a plant of fine habit, good height and stems and excellent foliage. The flowers are large, of full rose type and a beautiful shade of light pink quite similar to the shades found in Tourangelle. The flowers are freely borne and open late, but while more dependable than its gold medal sister, yet it does sometimes fail to bloom.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; href=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/myrtle-gentry/&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; &amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Myrtle Gentry&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;, which is, according to many growers, the most fragrant herbaceous peony. Late flowering, full double pale pink on stems sturdy enough. Alas, it doesn’t grow very well here and I’ve lost a few plants of it over the years, otherwise it would top my ‘favourite pink’ list. The fragrance of this one is simply fantastic.
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Large scale peony cut flower growing somewhere in Austria.
&amp;amp;amp;lt;a class=&amp;amp;amp;quot;wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip&amp;amp;amp;quot; title=&amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;div class=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;wpg-tooltip-content&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Growing mostly in deciduous broad-leaved forests, pine forests or mixed forests, less frequently in grasses. The species prefers calcarious soils and is found usually at altitudes from 50 to 1,500 m. Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy (Mt San Donato di Ninea), Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Turkey.&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The most distinct character of Paeonia peregrina is its always teeth-lobed leaflets or &lt;a class=&quot;wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip&quot; title=&quot;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;wpg-tooltip-content&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;a leaf is &amp;#039;segmented&amp;#039; when it consists of pieces of various shapes, which are more or less separated from one another&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot; href=&quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/segments/&quot; &gt;segments&lt;/a&gt;, which distinguish it readily from P. officinalis and P. saueri. The other distinct characters are <a class="wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip" title="&lt;div class=&quot;wpg-tooltip-content&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;tuber: a starchy storage organ (such as a potato) formed by swelling of an underground stem or the distal end of a root.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;" href="https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/tuberous/" >tuberous</a> or &lt;a class=&quot;wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip&quot; title=&quot;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;wpg-tooltip-content&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Spindle-shaped, that is being wide in the middle while narrowing or tapering at both ends.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot; href=&quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/fusiform/&quot; &gt;fusiform&lt;/a&gt; lateral roots, leaflets or &lt;a class=&quot;wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip&quot; title=&quot;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;wpg-tooltip-content&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;a leaf is &amp;#039;segmented&amp;#039; when it consists of pieces of various shapes, which are more or less separated from one another&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot; href=&quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/segments/&quot; &gt;segments&lt;/a&gt; often with &lt;a class=&quot;wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip&quot; title=&quot;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;wpg-tooltip-content&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;a stiff or rigid, hair-like process&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot; href=&quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/bristles-2/&quot; &gt;bristles&lt;/a&gt; along veins on the upper surface, and dark-red and cup-shaped corollas.&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/species/herbaceous/paeonia/peregrina/&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;More info&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;quot; href=&amp;amp;amp;quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/p-peregrina/&amp;amp;amp;quot; &amp;amp;amp;gt;Paeonia peregrina&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt; in Romania, seems to grow in open forests, thus full sun might not be the best option to grow this one?
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From these last series, they've received a long warm period and will now go into cold storage. Here the two…
Worked like a &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a class=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; title=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;div class=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;wpg-tooltip-content&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Very dark red Jap. Good upright grower, vigorous, late, 34 inches. An improvement on Fuyajo. Seedling # JE-3.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;
&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Award of Landscape Merit (ALM) description: &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#039;<a class="wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip" title="<div class="wpg-tooltip-content"><p>Very dark red Jap. Good upright grower, vigorous, late, 34 inches. An improvement on Fuyajo. Seedling # JE-3.</p> <p>Award of Landscape Merit (ALM) description: 'Charm' (Franklin, 1931) Lactiflora Group, Late mid-season, 38? — A lustrous and satiny, dark red Japanese form bloom with a center of the same red petaloids, etched yellow. Stiff and relatively straight stems angle outward gracefully to form a very large, harmoniously mounded, fountain of blooms. An eight-year-old plant matures to 40 or so stems that emerge from a relatively compact area. Although individual blooms are at their peak for a shorter duration than those of other lactifloras, plenty of side buds help 'Charm' maintain its striking presence in the landscape. One of the later Japanese form peonies to bloom.</p> </div>" href="https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/charm/" >Charm</a>&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#039; (Franklin, 1931) &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a class=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; title=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;div class=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;wpg-tooltip-content&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Growing in bushes and grasslands, but also in open woods, at altitudes from lowlands to 2,300 m, but to 3,400 m in Sichuan Province (Kangding), China. In E Asia: China, the Korea Peninsula, E Mongolia, and Russia (the Far East and SE Siberia).&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The most distinct character of Paeonia lactiflora is the cartilaginous thickening along the leaf margins, which are <a class="wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip" title="&lt;div class=&quot;wpg-tooltip-content&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having a toothlike or serrated edge.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Leaf_morphology_dentate.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-25337 alignleft&quot; src=&quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Leaf_morphology_dentate.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;204&quot; height=&quot;122&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;" href="https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/dentate/" >dentate</a>—spinose on these thickenings.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/species/herbaceous/albiflorae/lactiflora/&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;More info&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; href=&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/p-lactiflora/&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; &amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Lactiflora&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; Group, Late mid-season, 38? — A &lt;a class=&quot;wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip&quot; title=&quot;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;wpg-tooltip-content&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Herbaceous hybrid. Semi-Double. Lacti x lobata. Intense, luminous, vermilion scarlet bomb. Very large.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot; href=&quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/lustrous/&quot; &gt;lustrous&lt;/a&gt; and satiny, dark red Japanese form bloom with a center of the same red petaloids, etched yellow. Stiff and relatively straight stems angle outward gracefully to form a very large, harmoniously mounded, fountain of blooms. An eight-year-old plant matures to 40 or so stems that emerge from a relatively compact area. Although individual blooms are at their peak for a shorter duration than those of other lactifloras, plenty of side buds help &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#039;<a class="wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip" title="<div class="wpg-tooltip-content"><p>Very dark red Jap. Good upright grower, vigorous, late, 34 inches. An improvement on Fuyajo. Seedling # JE-3.</p> <p>Award of Landscape Merit (ALM) description: 'Charm' (Franklin, 1931) Lactiflora Group, Late mid-season, 38? — A lustrous and satiny, dark red Japanese form bloom with a center of the same red petaloids, etched yellow. Stiff and relatively straight stems angle outward gracefully to form a very large, harmoniously mounded, fountain of blooms. An eight-year-old plant matures to 40 or so stems that emerge from a relatively compact area. Although individual blooms are at their peak for a shorter duration than those of other lactifloras, plenty of side buds help 'Charm' maintain its striking presence in the landscape. One of the later Japanese form peonies to bloom.</p> </div>" href="https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/charm/" >Charm</a>&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#039; maintain its striking presence in the landscape. One of the later Japanese form peonies to bloom.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;
&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; href=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/<a class="wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip" title="<div class="wpg-tooltip-content"><p>Very dark red Jap. Good upright grower, vigorous, late, 34 inches. An improvement on Fuyajo. Seedling # JE-3.</p> <p>Award of Landscape Merit (ALM) description: 'Charm' (Franklin, 1931) Lactiflora Group, Late mid-season, 38? — A lustrous and satiny, dark red Japanese form bloom with a center of the same red petaloids, etched yellow. Stiff and relatively straight stems angle outward gracefully to form a very large, harmoniously mounded, fountain of blooms. An eight-year-old plant matures to 40 or so stems that emerge from a relatively compact area. Although individual blooms are at their peak for a shorter duration than those of other lactifloras, plenty of side buds help 'Charm' maintain its striking presence in the landscape. One of the later Japanese form peonies to bloom.</p> </div>" href="https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/charm/" >charm</a>/&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;<a class="wpg-linkify wpg-tooltip" title="<div class="wpg-tooltip-content"><p>Very dark red Jap. Good upright grower, vigorous, late, 34 inches. An improvement on Fuyajo. Seedling # JE-3.</p> <p>Award of Landscape Merit (ALM) description: 'Charm' (Franklin, 1931) Lactiflora Group, Late mid-season, 38? — A lustrous and satiny, dark red Japanese form bloom with a center of the same red petaloids, etched yellow. Stiff and relatively straight stems angle outward gracefully to form a very large, harmoniously mounded, fountain of blooms. An eight-year-old plant matures to 40 or so stems that emerge from a relatively compact area. Although individual blooms are at their peak for a shorter duration than those of other lactifloras, plenty of side buds help 'Charm' maintain its striking presence in the landscape. One of the later Japanese form peonies to bloom.</p> </div>" href="https://www.peonysociety.org/registered_peonies/charm/" >charm</a>&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; this time. Rooted seeds of nearly all 'difficult' samples and almost all of them looking perfectly…
Updated with some more info I received from Aleksej.
OF never makes good carpals at my house, so the method I used was to use OF as a pollen…
I haven't followed up on it and I don't grow any of them myself. You're right to ask for it…