Paeonia 2015

[JPB]

Leena, thanks for showing your beautiful peonies! You really do have a very nice collection!!

Cheers, Hans

[ruweiss]

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Can anyone solve this puzzle for me? Several years ago I inherited some pots of seeds, and eventually a paeony seedling germinated. I did not make a note of the name, and now find that the label has snapped in two. The remaining writing is very faint, I think it says
------phyton
------anatum
VH Tibet, 4400m, slate, scree.
I know that the seed was collected by Vojtech Holubec. The plant is now flowering for the first time and it would be nice to know what it is. The flowers are pink.

Maybe found your plant in Vojtech's seed  list from 2007

[Carolyn]

Thanks Rudi, I think you have found the answer! So the label had been used on both sides. My plant is definitely a paeony.

[Carolyn]

And here at last are some photos of my mystery paeony.  Can anyone help with identification? Apologies for the tatty petals, the weather has not been kind to the garden this spring.

[Carolyn]

Here is P. emodi, seed sown 2009, first flowers now.

[johnw]

A Paeonia veitchii from seed and a much cleaner pink than any we've grown to date.

johnw

[Leena]

Nice P.veitchii, John. Did it fade to white when the flower aged? That is what happens with my P.veitchii.

Carolyn, your peony is not familiar to me, but could it be P.mairei? Although P.mairei should be very early to flower in May, so that is why I'm not at all sure about it.

[Carolyn]

Carolyn, your peony is not familiar to me, but could it be P.mairei? Although P.mairei should be very early to flower in May, so that is why I'm not at all sure about it.
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Thanks, Leena. Looking at photos of P. Mairei, I can see some ressemblance, but the petals of my flower are very narrow. I think I'll just need to wait until next year and see what the flowers are like then. Is it possible that in the first year of flowering the flowers are not typical? As for flowering time, everything is 2 to 3 weeks late because of the cold spring. I think this plant flowered after P. obovata alba had finished.

[Leena]

I think P.mairei should flower before P.obovata, so maybe I'm wrong.
Yes, flowers can be untypical when flowering first time, but sometimes also plants grown from garden seeds have crossed and the flowers can be anything. I have had so many plants grown as this and that species and then they end up being something else, sometimes very pretty plants but couple of times also plants not worth growing.

[Hoy]

A chance seedling from a cross between delawayi and lutea. It is still small, but has started flowering. It is also late which is nice as it is growing at our summer house.

[fermi de Sousa]

Paeonia cambessedesii in the rock garden
cheers
fermi

[fleurbleue]

Nice plant Fermi