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Does anyone know of independent peony trials other that the large one reported in the dutch Dendroflora no 35 1998 and the new one in 2021 by the britiske RHS?
I am about to write a major article about the two for the Danish Peony Society and would like to consider all indeendent trials available.
Sincerely
Allan Høxbroe,
Denmark
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I think those two are the only independent ones, I quite regularly try to follow (scientific) literature on peonies and those are the only ones I know of that have compared many cultivars. The RHS study may be the most interesting one as it is more recent and thus also compares newer cultivars. The Dendroflora one is somewhat biased towards the…Read More
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And for the R2 peony showgarden also a short video:
Thank you, Khurtekant. We have read the professional report from RHS on the new peony trial and are in no way impressed. Several ways to easily make the trial valuable seems not to have been considered. And due to the pandemi the trial was cut short.
In the Dutch trial from 1998 we see exactly the same problems as you mention.
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This variety was extra-sensitive to our late frosts for me. I grew it for many years as Bill’s Best Yellow, and although I had a big plant of it, I almost never got flowers, let alone any seeds. My home garden is small, and I finally dug it out to make way for another variety. But I sent the divisions off to some other people, so it did not go…Read More
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@bobjohnson I can see what you mean. This year we experienced the coldest and wettest Spring and Summer in over a century. Some varieties didn’t take it well and Vanilla Schnapps was one of the worst. Three quarters of all buds were destroyed one way or another (rotten, deformed and so on). The image shows some that were standing unsheltered, you…Read More
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I mean all independant trials of course