P. caucasica itself. All different plants, from selected mothers, ranging from pale pink to dark red, these seedlings nearly all flower dark reddish pink. Leaflets rather variable, small or large, wavy or flat, narrow or wide. All leaves made up of 9 leaflets though (3+3+3).

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

Paeonia officinalis ssp microcarpa (also known as Paeonia humilis). Growing in Portugal/Spain and South-West France. Not a fast increaser here, only one stem, but it does show the characteristics of the species with rather narrow leaflets and indumentum on the stems and petioles. The subspecies microcarpa differs by having more segmented leaflets…Read More