Paeonia 2015

[Leena]

I got Paeonia Tbilisi hybrids seeds from the seed exchange, very exciting. Can anyone tell me anything about them? Are they P.daurica hybrids?

[Helen]

Can that be just open pollinated seeds from Tiblisi garden?

[Leena]

Can that be just open pollinated seeds from Tiblisi garden?

I guess I will have to wait 3-4 four years to find out. 
I had hoped the donator of these seeds had written more about them here, that is why I asked.

[Helen]

 

[Leena]

Paeonia daurica ssp mlokosewitchii in my garden now.
How are everyones peonies doing?

[Hoy]

Hi Leena,

No flowers here yet but the earliest is not far away!

Pp. lutea, rockii and an early hybrid from seed.

I have some nice seedling in the greenhouse also

[Philip Walker]

1st flower,4 years after recieving the plant.
P.cambessedesii

[Hoy]

Philip, that one looks very nice!

[Philip Walker]

Hopefully it will get better year on year.If it looks as good as the person's that gave me it,I will be very happy.
I also have 6 seedlings sown at the same time that I got this,Sept 2011

[Steve Garvie]

Paeonia cambessedesii


Paeonia caucasica


Paeonia cypria

[johnralphcarpenter]

Superb!

[Leena]

How does P.caucasica differ from P.cypria? Is there difference in height of the plant or in the leaves?
I have sown both from seed exchange seed and they are now starting to grow root.

[Steve Garvie]

P. caucasica is a more robust plant with larger leaves which are darker and of a different shape.
Though the flower tepals are of a similar colour the centre of the flowers have different markings.

P. caucasica is bone hardy here but P. cypria struggles in cold winters -though it did survive (just) -15C without snow cover (Paeonia rhodia didn't!).

[Leena]

P. caucasica is bone hardy here but P. cypria struggles in cold winters -though it did survive (just) -15C without snow cover (Paeonia rhodia didn't!).

Thanks Steve, I will have to try to take extra care of P.cypria if and when it germinates.
This kind of information is important now that many of the species are lumped together in taxonomy.

[JPB]

In Paeonies of the World, Hong De-Yan (2010), P. cypria is not even mentioned and the only peony species occurring in Cyprus is P. mascula subsp. mascula. Also, P. cypria is not in The Plant List, not even as a synonym. The picture of Steve looks like P. mascula but to be sure one has to see the leaves/habitus.

Beautiful pictures, by the way!