Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum

• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, June 15th
  Quote from: Gail on June 15, 2025, 10:34:56 AMPaeonia 'Green Halo' which I bought out of curiosity. Curiosity now satiated!Mercy! That is one scary flower!!
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, June 15th
  Paeonia 'Green Halo' which I bought out of curiosity. Curiosity now satiated!
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, June 10th
  Superb colour.
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, June 10th
  Last two flowers on 'White Innocence' now but it has done well this year and is a good riposte for those who complain that peonies don't last long. Paeonia lactiflora 'Madame Gaudichau' is a joy for months with the wonderful bronze-red shoots and folia...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 21st
  Mariette, Gail, you have beautiful peonies in your gardens.Tree Peony 'Dou Lu' (Pea Green Peony) (Green of Beans)Paeonia potaninii ?Orange-Rot?[img]https://i.im...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 17th
  Such lovely paeonies Gail, well photographed.  'White Innocence' is exquisite.
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 17th
  'White Innocence', one of the tallest herbaceous peonies, it benefits from support. Outstandingly beautiful flowers with the best fragrance of any peony - light, sweet and citrusy.
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 13th
  Impressive colour.
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 11th
  The Itoh hybrids are starting now.This is 'Magical Mystery Tour'
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 9th
  It may help to improve the topsoil, but wouldn?t make any difference regarding the 7 m of clay below, I?m afraid.?Gessekai? has proven a good mother for my crosses with rockii- seedlings.
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 3rd
  Gypsum can help improve drainage with clay soils.
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 3rd
  Thank You, J?rg!My problem is the layer of clay - the kind You make bricks of - below the 30-50 cm of topsoil. This means an almost complete lack of drainage. I should have to build raised beds for plants needing good drainage, another problem in our ...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 3rd
  Also your seedlings look great, Mariette!I also have heavy clay in my garden, but most of my peonies have no problems with it. Also P. rockii and its seedlings are growing well. P. rockii 'High Down' had a few years a problem but I guess it had to do ...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 2nd
  Some great photos, have never grown tree paeonies as my conditions are to wet over winter.
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 2nd
  Quote from: J?rg P on May 02, 2025, 05:02:51 PMMany years ago I got from a friend P. rockii 'High Down', a very wonderful P. rockii clone with the dark purple basal blotches. I pollinated it in the year 2020 with itself, but...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 2nd
  Quote from: J?rg P on May 02, 2025, 04:30:43 PMWhat do you think and what are your observations on this?Here are mine if it helps -photos just taken so not in full flower yet.Paeonia 'Early Windflowe...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 2nd
  Many years ago I got from a friend P. rockii 'High Down', a very wonderful P. rockii clone with the dark purple basal blotches. I pollinated it in the year 2020 with itself, but did not protect the pollination. While last year the first few seedlings f...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, May 2nd
  I got last autumn a plant from a friend who received the plant as P. emodi, but he believes it is rather 'Early Windflower'. I searched on the internet on the difference between these 2 and I found an article which describes as difference the number of...
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 27th
  Tree peonies in full flower now;Paeonia 'The Captain's Concubine'Paeonia rockii UK form
• Re: Paeonia 2025 2025, April 23rd
  Thank you Maggi, and yes, Paeonia 'Zi Die Ying Feng' is indeed glorious. It is one of the Gansu Mudan peonies with P. rockii blood so has lovely blotches at the centre of the flowers. The new spring foliage is gorgeous too.