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liked thisAn article about the Dutch peony growing business. Molenaar and Scholten being interviewed.
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Short? At my place it reached upto 100cm. Great plant, seedlings were disappointing. Single flowers with common and ugly colours.
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Not very tall here, but these are second year plants, so they may still increase in height. The colour is rather common, but for some reason it attracts a huge number of bees (which I like), whilst other blooming peonies around it are neglected by them.
I planted a portion of Flevo Star this early spring and it took well and made a couple of main buds. My interest is the foliage so I have crossed it with Sparkling Windflower. The other flower and the laterals were left to open pollination. I would be interested in knowîng about fertility of Flevo Star both as pod and pollen parent. Any…Read More
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Flevo Star has some fertility. Maybe some effort is needed but I have raised some 20-30 seedlings until yet. I never have used the pollen for hybridisation.
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For nice and beautiful foliage I would recommend to cross it with Salmon Dream.
Sparkling Windflower has a nodding flower, bad colour and louzy habitus.
Strong Coral (from Old Faithful x Coral Charm).. These are second year plants, they’ll increase a lot over time. Fades beautifully I think. You can see the Paeonia peregrina background still in the lobes on the leaflets.
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An english translation for those not speaking Dutch…