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

Paeonia kesrouanensis has some of the largest seeds in the peony kingdom. I’m not sure if the same can be said of P. turcica, which is sometimes said to be synonymous, as I don’t have mature plants thereof. But in P. kesrouanensis they are markedly bigger than in other herbaceous ones. It also shows in the developing carpels which can be massive.…Read More

German Medusa (Giessler, 2018). A somewhat different intersectional hybrid peony. Different because the mother is the tree peony and not the lactiflora variety, which is unlike nearly all others. And also because the tree peony is no lutea hybrid peony but rather Paeonia delavayi, the red form, resulting in a dark red intersectional with different…Read More