Updated with some more info I received from Aleksej.
It won’t be long before the specialized peony shops start showing their new offering for the coming season (harvest 2021). Most do this December/January so it’s a good idea to have a look at the website of your favorite trusted peony site to see when they’ll start their new offer as rare and new introductions are usually sold out incredibly fast.…Read More
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Interesting to see that Joshua is already sold out of a number of items. Not necessarily the most expensive things, but some of the more common things too. Growers need to be able to estimate the sort of yield that they will get from their plants, as orders taken now are for fall divisions which will be taken from plants which have not even…Read More
Dec 5th today, Canary Brilliants which rebloomed end of July after cutting down, is still standing green. The few plants in the front left row that hadn’t been cut back (the ‘comparison plants’), have no green foliage left. Mowing them all today as frost and snow is expected the following days. That clearly marks the end of the 2020 peony activities.
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Read MoreThis year we tried forcing some peony flowers into earlier flowering so we would have more of them before Mother's Day (they usually start flowering outside after that date). We bought some new hoop houses to this end and...
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Very Interesting Koen. Ga3 applications are very time sensitive. And in what I am reading that application timing differs from cultivar to cultivar. ? I would love to talk about. We in Morocco are not that much looking for early production, We need GA3 in the first place for dormancy addition and stem length elongation.
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American Peony Society auction now live. If you live in the USA, it might be tempting.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157452215927256&id=286230507255A very interesting article on peony hybridizing, its’ past, present and future. Authors are nearly all from China, showing that, at least in the domain of exact sciences, they are top notch. It’s in an ‘open access’ journal, so freely available to read. Not exactly bed-time literature as one needs to have a clear head reading it, but well worth…Read More
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As chance would have it, I just found out that Colonel Owen Cousins can have a very poor plant habit with the stems easily leaning down due to the heavy flowers. Somewhat better in cold climates it seems, but I guess not the best recommendation. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1216285451864393/permalink/1763030040523262/