Some footage from the past Heze Peony Festival in China:
khurtekant posted in the group Species Peonies International Network (SPIN)
Almost there, the first one to flower here (perhaps P. clusii would be earlier, but that one didn’t survive again): P. kesrouanensis. Blooms well before the leaflets are fully developed, I suppose in very cold weather (or high up the mountains in deeper shade) it may postpone this blooming somewhat until the leaflets are more mature. I did have a…Read More
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Next to our daily work we have two things we’d like to do soon on this site. First one is to compile a new list of growers of species plants and compare those to the ones that have been requested. Then we can see what is possible or not. One question to ask there is whether it would be wise to send directly from the supplier to the receiver or…Read More
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This tugs at my heartstrings, and touches the root of the root of my people.
I always knew my homeland was rich with resources, but this requires a decent, thorough reading session.
Life is taking me in new directions, but I will hold to the course, and make time for this journey.
I intend to undertake a Peony Pilgrimage one day. Go up, see them in the wild, wherever I can find them, be it in Anatolia or the Caucasus.
Oh, and I definitely dream of Luoyang.