Alain posted in the group Species Peonies International Network (SPIN)
This year some of my peonies flowers/flowered for the first time.
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We need some recommendations for fertilizing our peonies.
Adam here from Parkland Peonies in Calgary, Alberta. We are a small company growing peonies for bare root mail order, and local cut flowers.We are reaching out to the Peony Society in hopes that someone might help recommend a fertilizer blend and or trace minerals for our peony field.…Read More
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This is a late reply, I know, but for what it’s worth, the nursery I’m associated with sends foliage to their local agricultural agency, where they grind the leaves up and analyze their constituents , and base their fertilizer recommendations off of those results. So they use plant samples, rather than soil samples. How they know what they want…Read More
Image I saw on a page. I think experts can make a better species definition from the visual.
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Difficult to say really. All we see are tomentose carpels, dark pink stigmas and a pink flower. You can exclude many peonies, it’s not a tree peony for example as there is no ‘sheath’ around the carpels. And the species with normally a different color or glabrous carpels can also be excluded, but several remain. Some possibilities: P. mascula ssp…Read More
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P. daurica?
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It could be, but without the leaflets it’s hard to say. If from Turkey it could be P. arietina, P. daurica or P. mascula ssp mascula. For P. arietina you would need hairs on the stems and leaf stalks and backside of the leaflets. The others will be without hairs on those places. P. daurica will have only 9 leaflets on the lowest leaf and should…Read More
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You are very knowledgeable. How did you get so much information? Congratulations. Thank you for this good information. If this information had been released as open source, perhaps much newer species could have emerged. I believe it is useful information.
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Thank you for the compliment although I don’t consider myself an expert. If you go to ‘species’ in the menu above, you can read quite a bit about the peony species. It is true that most publications about peonies are not exactly open source. Some garden books are not too expensive, but the specialized botanical books or articles are usually way to…Read More
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Pretty. From where in Turkey? I cannot count the number of leaflets, but from the look of it I think it is P. daurica, or perhaps (less likely) P. mascula ssp mascula. So from the images I would guess somewhere Southern Turkey?
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You’ll find that guidelines for peony fertilization vary widely. Surveys sent out to professional peony growers in the Netherland in the 2010’s found that knowledge on this subject is rather limited and based upon previous years of experience. Guidelines from research institutes also have a huge range for all those elements. Next to that how the…Read More