Paeonia 2008

[Joakim B]

Fermi well done

The seeds were they fresh or dried from a seed-exchange?
If dried how did You do when sowing?
if fresh please let us now that one as well.
My record with sowing Paeonia is not the best but the ones that has succeeded to seed itself or be sown has more or less just ended up in the ground or in a pot when fresh and then had to take care of it self. That meant I planted in the Autumn and let them get the winter when it came. Some survive this treatment others do not.

Once again well done and great to see peonies.
Kind regards
Joakim

[fermi de Sousa]

Thank you, Hans, Paul and Joakim,
I'm pleased with how well this has done but I do hope it sets seed this year.
I collected the seed fresh in the UK in Autumn 1997, sowed it in Australia in our autumn the following year (I think) in a pot with grit on top, left open to the elements, but I was still in Melbourne then, so they would not have experienced a frost. I got 5 out of 5 to germinate but I only have the one plant left as I gave away 2 and lost the others.
I only got flowers for the first time in 2006 but the previous year the bud/s got frosted which is why it took so long I think. I suppose in a year with heavy frosts I'm likely to lose the flowers
Maybe it's doing well because of Global Warming?
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

Fermi,

If you're successful with seed, or ever have a small division to spare, I'd be most interested.  I used to grow it previously but lost it one hot summer because it was too out in the open.    Live and learn.  I have a few species coming along from seed as well, but still many years off flowering.  I do grow a few other herbaceous and tree types in the garden as well.  Got to love such flowers from so little effort on our part!! 

[Joakim B]

Fermi  thanks for the information . Just a follow up question
Did You store the seed humid and cold or just cold or how did You store them?
Kind regards
Joakim

[fermi de Sousa]

Fermi  thanks for the information . Just a follow up question
Did You store the seed humid and cold or just cold or how did You store them?
Kind regards
Joakim

Hi Joakim,
my standard way of storing is in an envelope in a box in a cool part of the house.
I did at one stage try storing the envelopes in a glass jar in the fridge but had a problem with condensation that was not solved by using silica gel.
cheers
fermi