Paeonia wendelboi.

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Paeonia japonica. Needs a lot of shade. Slow increase. Most greenish buds I’ve seen in species.

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Many years ago I got my first plants of P. caucasica grown from seeds I had received from Will McLewin (UK). One of the seedlings was different from all others. It flowered at the same time and had the same height, but there were more leaflets to a leaf (usually 11 instead of the 9 which is typical of P. caucasica) which were also somewhat shorter…Read More

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Slightly unusual form of Paeonia wittmanniana. Shorter and slightly wavy leaflets which are also somewhat smaller.

An unusual form of P. caucasica which has 11 leaflets on the largest leaves. Otherwise identical to the species.

Paeonia caucasica

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Paeonia x litvinskajae

Paeonia daurica ssp daurica (P. triternata). Rather small, short, somewhat wavy leaflets. Early flowering.

Division received from Hans Maschke (DE). His plant grown from seed supplied by Will McLewin. Resembles the description quite well. Short growing, pale yellowish in bud, turning white at blooming time. Some pale

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.

March 1st, some species are already growing strong outside. P. emodi has lots of stems, but experience from years past tells us that some cold harsh weather along the way to blooming will heavily damage them again. But before that happens they always look very promising. The second image shows P. triternata, or P. daurica ssp daurica as it is…Read More

March 1st, Coral Charm and Coral Sunset in our unheated high tunnels.

Šīs ir manas no sēklām izaudzētās peonijas.

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For those wanting to read more about peony species, and more specifically about those growing on Russian territory (or nearby in the Caucasus). Sergey Banketov has written several interesting articles about them. It’s in Russian, but if you use chrome or another modern browser you’ll get instant translation so you’re sure to learn a…Read More

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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Got 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

Some photos from this season, all species have finished blooming. This is P. japonica. Flower colour somewhat greenish pale yellow. Didn’t see it open, as the flower was destroyed to hybridize with it.

A new book about the greatest peony hybridizer A.P. Saunders 😀

Now registered: Strong Coral. Formerly known as OFF-4. As young plant single to semi-double, when older semi-double to nearly full double.

Peak bloom time. First one shown is Mieke Bral. Second one as yet unnamed, Mieke Bral F2. Third one is Christine Carrette.

Nelda’s Joy. Within this group (the ones resembling Salmon Dream), it is the best IMHO. Closed buds, rather double, upright. Not the fastest increaser though.

Andreas Maschke. From the cross Bartzella x Lemon Chiffon. Healthy, good and pretty.

Paeonia arietina (from Turkey).

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Paeonia obovata alba

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P. mascula russoi hybrid (probably x P. cambessedesii)

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https://www.instagram.com/p/DILQox4NXOR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Paeonia kesrouanensis in Lebanon, Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve (50 km NE of Beirut, in the Mountains)

Paeonia x litvinskajae (P. wittmanniana x P. caucasica). Except for the colour, very much alike P. wittmanniana. Not much pink in this plant, but it does have a nice greenish yellow shine in bud, which then fades into something milky white.

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P. caucasica itself. All different plants, from selected mothers, ranging from pale pink to dark red, these seedlings nearly all flower dark reddish pink. Leaflets rather variable, small or large, wavy or flat, narrow or wide. All leaves made up of 9 leaflets though (3+3+3).

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Amirani (unregistered). P. caucasica x unknown. Flowers at the same time as P. caucasica. More leaflets than that species.

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A new book by Gail Harland. Don’t know yet if it’s good, have only glanced through it for a few minutes. It seems well researched with a long overview of the species. The history of the peony also and the use of them in art. When I’m through reading it, I can perhaps tell some more.

Paeonia tomentosa ssp archibaldii (aka P. archibaldii).

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Peonies are growing well here. Dry warm weather, very little rain, not too windy, cold nights. More or less perfect circumstances thus and the ones above ground are looking really great, such a difference with last year. Here some interesting pretty ones.
Image 1: (Big Jhonny x open) 001. Descends from Garden Peace (sister seedlings to it…Read More

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For those that reside in the USA, this company sells wild-collected seeds of P. brownii. Usually not easy to find, so if you’d like to try your hand at it… A pity they don’t sell their seeds abroad, but given the phytosanitary regulations and costs it’s understandable.
https://www.butterfieldseeds.com/seeds/p/browns-peony

Brown's Peony — Butterfield Seeds

Paeonia brownii zones 2-5 15 seeds Paeonia brownii is a low to medium height, herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Paeoniaceae . It has compound, steely-gray, somewhat fleshy leaves and small drooping maroon flowers. Its vernacular name is Brown's Peony, Native Peony or Wester

www.butterfieldseeds.com

Even better is part two: the growing field with again the name plates followed by shots of the plants in the field. You can perfectly see which ones stand up better than others, have prettier flowers, are more floriferous, have open or closed buds and so on… The last part is the highlight: the area where @bobjohnson his seedlings are propagated.…Read More

A short update one temperature treatments for germination of peony seeds. As was noted a constant temperature was better than fluctuating temperatures. The seeds which went into the warm treatment later did show a difference in that the one that were left in my house at some 22-23°C had hardly made any progress and showed as good as no…Read More

An interesting article for commercial growers of peony cut flowers:

The potential post-harvest treatments to delay flower senescence and improve Botrytis resistance in cut peony flowers.

And a fourth video.

More of Adelman’s peonies, but this time later in the season when the lactifloras are in full swing.

@helmut-dorner informed me about some interesting video footage which was shot at Adelman Peony Gardens in the USA. It consists of two videos actually. The first below is like a visit to their show garden, highlighting some peony varieties in bloom at that time. They are shot name plate first and then the whole plant so you get a good idea about…Read More

All peony roots have been planted. I hope everybody can say the same as Autumn is the best time to do so 😃

A peony farm in New Zealand
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/533264/country-life-business-is-blooming-at-family-focused-peony-farm?fbclid=IwY2xjawGaulRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU3ctghvCE557sIGKJUYQlcmGHkG-iIrzuvMo_Wo2pNt3Bfzo99MByma0A_aem_kG8O_ENIMiC7f_2VuSiGsA

Country Life: Business is blooming at family-focused peony farm

Flower picking and packing for export is in full swing at Prebbleton Peonies. Most of the large, fragrant flowers are flown daily to Japan, the US and Europe.

www.rnz.co.nz

After some days offline, the website is back online. The site is now at a different hosting company. Another difference is that I’ve moved it from peonysociety.eu towards peonysociety.org . I’ve had both domains for several years, but the latter not as early, so it started with .eu because I wanted to try to bring people together that loved…Read More

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A short update on the ULO long term storage project of peonies. In a terrible peony year with quality far below par you cannot expect better peonies after twelve weeks of storage. So we tried only few stems of second grade to see how far we got. A longer article will follow when leisure is available. Some results: drying them out too much before…Read More

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Several species peonies seem to have difficulty with the wet Winter/Spring. Resulting in quite a few losses. Sometimes I have several plants of species, most often when I receive a dozen seeds and I get quite good germination. Often it can be seen that some plants within the same species are better than others at withstanding our local climate,…Read More