Checking the progress of my harvested peony seeds. All seems to be going well. Several of them already have a long radicle (first root), whilst you can see in the image there’s at least one already starting the growth of the plumule (first shoot). That will clearly be one needing little cold… Not all are this far and not all are successful, but…Read More

Since about a week this site has experienced unusually heavy traffic. About 1,000 ‘unique’ visitors each hour, mostly from faraway places where peonies cannot be grown (Singapore, Brazil, Vietnam), so it feels like a deliberate attempt to slow down the site, which you may have noticed. Traffic from those countries could easily be blocked, but we’d…Read More