After some days offline, the website is back online. The site is now at a different hosting company. Another difference is that I’ve moved it from peonysociety.eu towards peonysociety.org . I’ve had both domains for several years, but the latter not as early, so it started with .eu because I wanted to try to bring people together that loved…Read More

A short update on the ULO long term storage project of peonies. In a terrible peony year with quality far below par you cannot expect better peonies after twelve weeks of storage. So we tried only few stems of second grade to see how far we got. A longer article will follow when leisure is available. Some results: drying them out too much before…Read More

Paeonia 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