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Read MoreOrganic Peonies - Off the beaten path Translated from: Langen, E. “Biologische pioenen - Sprong in het diepe.” In: Greenity, 2024, May 31st, pp. 12-15. Organic agricultural farm Verduyn in Zeewolde (The Netherlands) started growing organic peonies four years ago. For...
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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
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liked thisPaeonia 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
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I don’t have much experience growing Paeonia obovata and P. japonica plants, they tend not to grow very well here for some reason. These are some plants grown from seeds, so perhaps not all ‘true’ (the only flowering one was a ‘pink’ P. japonica, see last picture), but there are some 5 different ones of each species and within each species they…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
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