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Leena, in my garden P. mairei opens about the same time as kesrouanensis.
I got seeds of Paeonia sp ex China, 50cm, yellow/red from the seed exchange and the first of them is now showing the root after two months in warm and moist vermiculte. I'm really happy.I was wondering if there was a picture of the mother plant somewhere in the forum or if anyone could tell me more about this peony? The seeds were very big, so is it a tree peony?
If the colour of the flowers is red/yellow and the seeds are quite big, the "type" of the mother plant is likely to be a form/hybrid of Paeonia delavayi or Paeonia ludlowii.
The second volume of Hong's Peonies of the World book is really good for showing the diversity of the species in the wild.
At Cambridge Botanic Garden they have the form of P. delavayi known as P. potaninii that is yellow flowered and low growing - it makes a lovely ground cover plant under larger shrubs.
That would be a good plant for me, being low it would have the snow protection. I hope my seeds turn out like that. I don't have Hong's books (they are quite expensive ), and didn't know there were so low growing forms of tree peonies, thank you Gail.