Updated with some more info I received from Aleksej.
Paeonia kesrouanensis now blooming here. You can see it’s far ahead of all other species, some twenty other species are growing around it, but nothing comes close.
Hallo an alle Pfingstrosenfreunde, heute kommt im Deutschen Fernsehen MDR 21 Uhr eine Sendung über Tulpen und Paeonien. Der Beitrag kann auch in der Mediathek MDR unter ” Der Osten entdecke wo du lebst” angeschaut werden. Zu sehen sind die Pfingstrosengärtner Steffen Schulze und Wolfgang Giessler und einige Mitglieder unserer Züchtergruppe. Au…Read More
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Close to flowering: Paeonia kesrouanensis.
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I got 2 in the fall – they are not yet ready to flower and are only just sprouting now – a young kesrouanensis Kemer syn. turcica is also there – it is also only showing tender shoots in the wind-protected cold frame.
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I don’t think kesrouanensis and turcica are the same. P. turcica will show reddish or rather dark foliage upon emerging, whereas P. kesrouanensis is green from the onset. P. kesrouanensis is also a rather pale pink flower colour, whereas P. turcica is most often reddish, the few pink exceptions notwithstanding of course. P. kesrouanensis flowers…Read More
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Showing the plant from the side, you can see how small it is when it flowers here. Images I’ve seen from Syria also show it flowering before full development, but at least in a more advanced state. I believe the much higher altitude and thus lower ambient temperatures prevailing there are the cause of that.
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Thank you for your experiences with a scientific character – it’s fun to read. I am also looking forward a little more to my little P. turcica , which I still have to create a well-drained planting place in partial shade – whether it wants slightly acidic soil because it is a forest dweller (as some pictures of the natural habitat show) . But…Read More
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I’d love to see it. But it turns out that MDR has geoblocking enabled and the video cannot be viewed outside of Germany. Perhaps with a proxy server and such things it would be possible to bypass that filer, but I would have to look into that. Maybe I can find the television station on my own tv this evening. Thanks for the notice!