Being a popular flower is nice, people do write about you from time to time, here’s a new one ‘Passion for Peonies’.
https://www.press.umich.edu/11492590/passion_for_peoniesHillary, chosen as peony of the year for 2021.
One of my favourites, and surely my current top pick for a successful cut flower. Grand Massive, early, semi double white with closed, white buds. Very floriferous and an extraordinarily increaser. Sturdy stems, large buds, good stem length. I’d project this one to end up in the top 10 most sold cut flowers eventually, which is a bold statement,…Read More
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It’s good to hear your opinion of this. Here in the US, aside from Quitzen, we only know about the Fawkner things from a distance.
OFF-4, which is Old Faithful x Coral Charm. This one (and the previous one CC-1-1) from Hans Maschke. Nice one, many good qualities, but the stems tend to fall open, despite them being as sturdy as its mother.
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I’ve grown some seedlings using OFF-4 pollen, and the curious thing about OFF-4 is the high percentage of hollow seeds that it makes when used as a pollen parent. Lots of nice glossy black seeds…but a very large percentage of them are hollow inside. I dealt with this by making 3 times the number of crosses that I might normally make, and f…Read More
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Not really sure about the reasons they list. Transportation of open flowers is obviously difficult, but peonies that merely have ‘soft’ buds can’t be that much of a problem I guess? I’m also not completely sure that large growers only go once through their field to harvest them all. Sure, if you place twenty interim workers that have never cut…Read More
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This is an unfortunate problem to hear about, as it’s something that could give the public a bad feeling about peonies as a cut flower. Here in Oregon the growers that I am familiar with make every effort to harvest their cuts at the proper time, and get a premium price as a result. Also, I know that the bosses of their crews know the proper…Read More
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