Members – The Peony Society

Yong

yongyang

Andy

aphahn

Sebastian Pudelko

We graft and culitavte varieties of Peony lutea, suffruticosa and rockii. We are nursery growers and peony collectors.

Breeding of peonies.

langpaeon

phenix

leena

jillstevens

Morgan

Have been growing peonies since spring 2008 when I got some peonies and loved the flowers. Since the start, I have only bought according to color and shape. Started with lactiflora mostly for the reason that they were on our garden and probably planted in the 50s. It has been difficult to get tree peonies to develop in our garden and because of that, seed sowing has been a natural part to try and today there are about ten tree peonies in the garden. Collecting peonies originating from Irene Tolomeo and now passed 20 of them. Have about 40 Itoh peonies and some seeds F1 and F2. There are around 260-280 varieties and seed plants of herbaceous peonies.

Ruud

ruud

Peter

Joined the American Peony Society in 1984 and started hybridizing in 1985. Read about Saunders, and visited Hamilton College archives several times in the 1990’s, copying many records. Decided to start a project that includes taking Saunders plants several generations further, while repeating some of the Saunders crosses to see what he must have seen, but were never photographed for those of us in the future. This project required species plants. Some species plants came from Galen Burrell, but most are from seed of various sources, like Will McLewin, The Scottish Rock Garden Club, the Alpine Garden Society, and the North American Rock Garden Society. At the present, this has resulted in a very large collection of seedling plants. All seedling data, ( and Saunders information), is in databases. Unlike some growers who might discard many seedlings early on if they don’t have a particular feature, most of the seedlings here have been allowed to grow to 10 years old or more, allowing some sense of the mature form. This is a one-man project, taking all my time, with nothing left over for sales, and only a little for distribution. I admire natural species plants for their beauty. At the same time, I do have a few goals of hybridizing. One of these goals is to produce a tall plant with very large leaves. The standard of comparison for this feature is the area of the photosynthetic blade (in square inches) of the largest leaflet, and it must be a repeatable feature, not just a one-time observation. To date, the largest single leaflet of this effort is about 36 square inches. I am a huge fan of the richness of species as shown in photos of those found in the region of the Caucasus. In spite of considerable effort to get a plant of macrophylla that breeds like Saunders’ macrophylla did, not one of many putative macrophyllas has proven to be ‘correct’. I would very much like to find a true source of the plant I here define as “Saunders macrophylla”.

Vasile

vasile

Ulf

Werde Ende Mai 63 Jahre alt. Wir haben seit 2000 Grundstück in Mölkau am Rande Leipzig. Über Jahre einen guten Bestand an Staudenpaeonien , Baumpaeonien und Wildarten gepflanzt. Bin Mitglied in der Gesellschaft der Staudenfreunde Fachgruppe Paeonien. Nehme an den jährlichen Treffen teil und kenne dadurch viele Leute.

Mirela

mcordeausamvcluj-ro

Glen

glen

Dick

dick

Stefano

subisoffi

Tina

I have just bought my first house and am in TX. I want to grow peonies and hope to find advice here.

Helve

Olen looduslaps. Avastused looduse vallas teevad mind õnnelikuks.

Chantale

I have been addicted to peonies for over 15 years. I like nothing more than seeing them shooting up in the spring. As a fine art photographer, my on going series "Paeonia erotica" focuses on the diversity of peony flowers. @chantale_noel_art

enfleurs

solveig

agersted

US breeder of intersectional hybrids

Arvids

I am a peony collector from Latvia. My peony garden is located in the city of Daugavpils and more than 400 varieties grow there. I have started hybridizing and propagating peonies myself. The collection also includes botanical species of peonies.