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Paeonia broteri. Nice glossy foliage, good stem strength, pretty flower. Does need drier soil, several plants lost due to somewhat long periods of rain previous year and Winter.
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liked this1 CommentI just received some images of Matias Krieger’s seedlings and they were added to the page about him and his work. Have a look to see some nice ones for the future… Here’s already one of which I’m just a little bit jealous 😉
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I am posting an image of Andreas Maschke (B3) flowering in my garden. Very nice plant, herbaceous in appearance, very similar to its pollen parent. The flowers have pollen and carpels.
I have used its pollen on so called fertile itohs to increase the tree peony characters and obtain fertile backcrosses. I tried it also on herbaceous hybrids like…Read More![]()
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@roberto Have you obtained any seedlings from the cross Itohs x B3?
I have tried B3 pollen on several itohs such as Watermelon Wine, Belle Tolousaine, Sonoma Rosy Future, Gordon Simonsen but no seeds yet. This year I have tried also the same pollen on Golden Experience. Results if any will be visible in a couple of months. I do not want to cross these RIBC2 with herbaceous hybrids because it increases the…Read More
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@roberto I forgot to answer your question about my results hybridizing with this, sorry. Now that I see this post again I suddenly remember…
Growing seedlings currently from these crosses with B3 (Andreas Maschke):
(Big Jhonny x open) double pink x B3: 9 seedlings
(Old Faithful x Grand Massive)001 x B3: 2 small ones
(Pink Vanguard x Buoy…Read More
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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.
This may look as a common seedling. Not special and multi petal/ semi double flower.
It’s a seedling from Flevo Star. Probably from pollen with Blushing Princess.
After discarding several seedlings from Flevo Star with dull single flower this seedling indicates that Flevo Star has (hopefully) doubleness in its genes.
The foliage is nice a…Read More![]()
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can you offer some P. broteri seeds?