Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum

• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 22nd
  Oh my word, Gail , your Paeonia 'Zi Die Ying Feng' is glorious!! Not sure if I've mentionedc this before, but Gail Harland's   Peony book, in Reaktion's Botanical series is just out........https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/peony 
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 22nd
  some tree peonies;Paeonia 'Zi Die Ying Feng'Paeonia 'Cardinal Vaughan'Paeonia 'Shima-nishiki'This is the first year that Shima-nishiki has produced a stripey flower for me.
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 22nd
  Everything is rushing into flower here now.Paeonia obovata alba Paeonia tenuifoliaPaeonia mascula subsp. russoi
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 14th
  Paeonia x litvinskajae. Supposedly a natural hybrid between P. wittmanniana x P. caucasica. Or P. daurica ssp wittmanniana x P. daurica ssp coriifolia if you'd like to follow current nomenclature. Always looks like P. wittmanniana except for the colour...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 10th
  Grown as Paeonia cambessedesii although clearly not 'glabrous throughout'.
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 9th
  Having never seen a peony growing wild, I?m certainly not helpful when it comes to identify them. Thank You both for Your valuable information!When Herman Mylemans showed his P. kesrouanensis, I had the idea that my seedling flowering for the first ti...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 9th
  Well, as coincidence happens I once wrote an article about peonies in Turkey, so I think I know most or all of them. In Turkey there are many peony species, but only few of them are white and restricted to small areas:-the best known one is P. mascul...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 8th
  Mariette ,maybe this is P.mascula v. bodurii ?This species flowers white and is a P.mascula and it grows in Turkey :https://www.peonysociety.org/species/herbaceous/corallinae/mascula/The other P.mascula with white flowers like P.mascula v. ikaria +...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 8th
  You?re certainly right, Koen - by closer inspection the carpels seem tomentose and the stigmas not fitting for P. kesrouanensis. When browsing for information on that species I found a turkish webside with precise botanical desriptions and many picture...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 8th
  I was curious to see that white P. kesrouanensis, so went to see on the nargs site. But that is not P. kesrouanensis, the picture is not very clear nor large, but as far as I can see the carpels are tomentose. And the foliage doesn't resemble P. kesrou...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 8th
  That?s very interesting, Koen. Loving scented plants, I smelled at the flower, and it had a slight scent. Reminding me more of the shrubby peonies than P. lactiflora. A friend collected seed in Turkey and succeeded to germinate them, but lost the seed...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 7th
  I've never seen a white P. kesrouanensis. I did have some seeds a few times, but only a few and they are difficult to germinate. The seeds are usually much larger than other peony species seeds (except for P. ludlowii). I try crossing this species with...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 7th
  Yes, Koen, at first I thought it would be a hybrid, too. But the early flowering - decidedly before P. mlokosewitschii and caucasica - made me doubt and look closer for the details. I wonder if my single plant will produce seed.  Did You rise seedlings...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 6th
  Yes, at first I thought you would have P. x lagodechiana (=P. caucasica x P. mlokosewitschii) since those can have all kinds of colour. But the image was quite clear with the glabrous carpels. A rare species :-)[quote author=Mariette link=topic=19724....
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 6th
  Quote from: koen on April 06, 2025, 09:41:44 PMPaeonia archibaldii blooming now in Belgium.Koen, very nice Paeonia!
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 6th
  Quote from: koen on April 06, 2025, 09:04:55 PMThat does look like P. kesrouanensis to me. Glabrous carpels indeed. Very early flowering. Very short hairs on the backside of the leaflets. If fertilized seeds develop in the car...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 6th
  Paeonia archibaldii blooming now in Belgium.
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 6th
  That does look like P. kesrouanensis to me. Glabrous carpels indeed. Very early flowering. Very short hairs on the backside of the leaflets. If fertilized seeds develop in the carpels, those carpels will become huge, much larger than with other peonies...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 3rd
  Thank you Maggi! 
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 2nd
  Quote from: Gail on April 02, 2025, 09:12:50 AMMy Peony book, in Reaktion's Botanical series is just outhttps://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/peony And so is Gail Harland's excellent book, "The Rock Garden"  published by ...