Today, 18 February, it is -8 degrees Celsius. We still have a garden, and we have expensive and collectible varieties of peonies. We inspected the garden, and it took our breath away: in half a metre of snow, the tree peony is already ready for spring. We are a little worried. What a thirst for life this plant has, how reckless it is.
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liked thisGreetings to all peony lovers. First of all, we would like to thank Mr. Кoen Hurtekant for his invitation and for his work in promoting peonies around the world. We have been commercial members of the APS for two years, where we have gained knowledge about hybridisation and peony care. However, your website contains much more useful and relevant…Read More
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Paeonia emodi. A plant wild collected in Pakistan. It didn’t grow too well before and was replanted last Autumn. Seems to do better now and it bloomed for the very first time here. Not sure if it is due to the replanting, but the sepals don’t really show those long ‘tails’ (caudate) and the bud was more rounded than pointed as I’m used to in this…Read More
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liked thisGot an e-mail telling me that registration wasn’t working for the site, or at least activation mails not arriving. Manually activated some applications. Made some changes to the registration / login settings, hope it works now, I’m no IT specialist unfortunately. If any problems, feel free to send an e-mail to info@peonysociety.org , if people…Read More
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OF never makes good carpals at my house, so the method I used was to use OF as a pollen parent. Which means knowing a friend who lives somewhere where the season is much earlier than in my (quite late) area where I can get pollen, and then use it on earlier varieties.
You are right though; strong stems are the goal here, and in the long run I believe will be the ultimate goal of all work with the herbaceous hybrids, even if not all of our wonderful new varieties have them yet.
Bob