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Hans J

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Paeonia 2008
« on: April 24, 2008, 07:52:09 PM »
Hi @ all !

The peony flower season has startet before some day -but with this bad wether it was not possibly to make ealier pics - here some from today :

Paeonia maireii
Paeonia morrisii
Paeonia qiui ( one of the rarest peonies )
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2008, 07:56:39 PM »
some more :

Paeonia russoi
Paeonia szechuanica
Paeonia tenuifolia

...to be continued....
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2008, 08:03:32 PM »
Very nice indeed Hans, I particularly liked Paeonia qiui. Do you devote a large part of your garden to Paeonia?
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2008, 08:11:09 PM »
David ,

I'm glad that you like it !

But dont have any hope to get a P. qiui .....and it seems it is not self fertil !

My garden is more or less full with peonies -I prefer all kind of species ....
I have now stopped with sowing of them -because there are so many in pots ( and thats like peony not ! )
many are in waiting position ....
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2008, 08:43:00 PM »
As our paeonies here are just growing their leaves, most are only 30 to 40cms out of the ground, it will be a while yet before we see such beauty, so it is great to share your flowers, Hans  8)
I have never seen P. qiui before... how very lovely it is.  Paeony flowers make me think of ladies in fabulous evening dresses !
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2008, 08:57:34 PM »
Maggi ,

....and lilac will also start soon !
Wait - and you will see some beauties more .....
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2008, 09:07:26 PM »
Lilacs so soon? 
Look what we said last year, at almost the same time :
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Hans, you have made my day so bright with these lovely flowers! Felix has a fine place to make his sleeping spot, does he not? How luxurious to take your siesta under a P. rockii!!
I am very excited to have seed of these excellent forms: for instance, the form of P. rockii IR... so pink and what wonderful colour in the foliage!  Today I have told my peonies in the garden that their cousins are making flowers in Germany:  here we have only leaves and some buds which show promise for a few weeks' time.


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Some of this are really rare like P. qiui and P. decomposita
Super to see these plants, Hans. I have not seen them before in "real life". Beautiful! What a joy your garden must be to you with all these fine plants!

So the timings are similar to last year but I have still not seen the P. qiui in real life!
 Maybe next year  ::)
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Hans J

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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2008, 09:34:21 PM »
Maggi - thank you !

It is real interesting ...it is really near the same time !
The P. rockii will need some days more ...
In this year I will have some plants ( self growing from seed )who flowering for the first time !!!

I fear you will never seen P. qiui in real in your country - exept you come and visit my garden .
They are really rare in China - and only with very good connections is it possibly to get a plant ....

I wrote you by my return from Athens that there has flowering the lilac ....now near 4 weeks later start it's here... 8)
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2008, 12:34:26 AM »
Hans,

Beautiful!  I too like 'Qui'.  Such delicacy!  :D

P. tenuifolia is a favourite of mine as I love the leaves.  I used to grow it but never managed to flower it unfortunately before it died out one year due to the maraudings of blackbirds damaging the new shoots and covering everything with mulch.  I lost a few Paeonia that same year unfortunately.  I've seen it in flower in a friend's garden though and the combination of that lovely soft looking green foliage and the BRIGHT red cup-like flowers is very very striking.  Lovely to see it here again as my friend has now moved many hours away so no chance of seeing it in person again for a while.

Thanks for the wonderful pictures and looking forward to seeing more of them.
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2008, 08:56:40 AM »
Hi Hans

The pics are every bit as good as I imagined. P szechuanica is very fine; lovely foliage and flowers.


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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2008, 08:57:37 AM »
Paul ,

If you will come to Europe ( one fine day ) so it is not a problem to give you seedlings of P. tenuifolia ;)

the correct name for this Paeonia is P. qiui ( it is escriptet from Pei & Hong in 1995 ) and it was found in province Hubei ,they grows on 1650 - 2000 m altitude .
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2008, 09:01:09 AM »
Hi Gerry ,

Yes the leaves of P. szechuanica are really interesting - I will show here in few days a similar plant :
P. decompostia

The botanists are not shure if it is the same or a seperate species .
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2008, 09:09:10 AM »
Hans, very fine paeonia. I believe there is a pink fever, what will start in me. Yesterday I had the first flower of a P. russoi in my garden. It closes a gap between the very early P. mairei and the later ones. But all aren`t not as showy as your brillant plants.
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2008, 09:22:50 AM »
Hagen ,

Thanks !
Wait - and you will see other colors too ....
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Re: Paeonia 2008
« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2008, 09:30:10 AM »
My favourite is P. tenuifolia, very lovely paeonies Hans! Are there any yellow ones?
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