I just received some images of Matias Krieger’s seedlings and they were added to the page about him and his work. Have a look to see some nice ones for the future… Here’s already one of which I’m just a little bit jealous 😉

Today the peony world has lost a great man; Don Hollingsworth passed away at a blessed age. He was the founder and owner of Hollingsworth nursery before it was sold. A great hybridizer of peonies and prolific contributor to many peony discussions, you can find many very informative articles within the APS Bulletins or the Paeonia newsletters. If…Read More

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Estria. Short, upright, floriferous. It’s good.

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Paeonia sterniana. Seedling.

Foliage on several (true) Paeonia emodi.
Most are grown from seeds

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Paeonia qiui.

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P. obovata hybrid. With tomentose carpels this must be a garden hybrid. Much easier growing compared to the true species.

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Not completely sure what this is. Received it as ‘unknown’, but from wild collected seeds in former Yugoslavia. P. velebitensis, P. mascula, P. daurica? This is a first year plant so it may well change the following years, perhaps then I’ll be able to tell what it is, but I find it already rather attractive.

Paeonia tenuifolia

Paeonia clusii.

Paeonia japonica. Needs a lot of shade. Slow increase. Most greenish buds I’ve seen in species.

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Many years ago I got my first plants of P. caucasica grown from seeds I had received from Will McLewin (UK). One of the seedlings was different from all others. It flowered at the same time and had the same height, but there were more leaflets to a leaf (usually 11 instead of the 9 which is typical of P. caucasica) which were also somewhat shorter…Read More

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Paeonia daurica ssp daurica (P. triternata). Rather small, short, somewhat wavy leaflets. Early flowering.

Paeonia broteri. Nice glossy foliage, good stem strength, pretty flower. Does need drier soil, several plants lost due to somewhat long periods of rain previous year and Winter.

Paeonia emodi. A plant wild collected in Pakistan. It didn’t grow too well before and was replanted last Autumn. Seems to do better now and it bloomed for the very first time here. Not sure if it is due to the replanting, but the sepals don’t really show those long ‘tails’ (caudate) and the bud was more rounded than pointed as I’m used to in this…Read More

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Some photos from this season, all species have finished blooming. This is P. japonica. Flower colour somewhat greenish pale yellow. Didn’t see it open, as the flower was destroyed to hybridize with it.

Paeonia arietina (from Turkey).

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Paeonia obovata alba

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For those that reside in the USA, this company sells wild-collected seeds of P. brownii. Usually not easy to find, so if you’d like to try your hand at it… A pity they don’t sell their seeds abroad, but given the phytosanitary regulations and costs it’s understandable.
https://www.butterfieldseeds.com/seeds/p/browns-peony

Brown's Peony — Butterfield Seeds

Paeonia brownii zones 2-5 15 seeds Paeonia brownii is a low to medium height, herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Paeoniaceae . It has compound, steely-gray, somewhat fleshy leaves and small drooping maroon flowers. Its vernacular name is Brown's Peony, Native Peony or Wester

www.butterfieldseeds.com

It is a great time of the year to be moving seedlings from the germination flats. This back cross of P. (tenuifolia rosea Kinlin x tenuifolia flore plena)x P tenuifolia Kinlin will be fun to see bloom in a few years.

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

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Paeonia coriacea.

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The new database of SPIN plants is ready I think. I’ve been adding the plants in the old list to the new one, although there’s no real automatic way to do that and I have to do this manually. It may take a little more time to add the last ones of them. But in ways of functionality I think it is more or less finished. I would appreciate any…Read More

For Uwe @manolito some images of roots of P. macrophylla. From North Eastern Turkey, wild plants. As you can see: carrot shaped roots, (sometimes very) long and rather slender. Images from Cemal Sandalli, Turkish scientist, working on a paper describing this species in more detail. Publication forthcoming.

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