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khurtekant on The best peony germinating substrate: part 22026, March 27th
From these last series, they've received a long warm period and will now go into cold storage. Here the two…
khurtekant on The best peony germinating substrate: part 22026, March 27th
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…
The Peony Society on Peony Hybridizers: Bredikhin Aleksej2025, November 28th
Updated with some more info I received from Aleksej.
Bob on Old Faithful as a hybridizing parent2025, September 2nd
OF never makes good carpals at my house, so the method I used was to use OF as a pollen…
The Peony Society on Pink double fernleafs2025, May 7th
I haven't followed up on it and I don't grow any of them myself. You're right to ask for it…

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