Paeonia 2009

[Lvandelft]

This is a generous gift from a good friend - a layer of a good form of Rockii - its first flower

I don't think I have the same friend as Ian, but the coincidence is that I last year
was given a nice plant of Paeonia rockii by a generous friend too.
Today I made some pictures, just before a heavy wind and rain started for some hours.
I hope they did not suffer much, because it is soooo beautyful.

[ian mcenery]

This is a generous gift from a good friend - a layer of a good form of Rockii - its first flower

I don't think I have the same friend as Ian, but the coincidence is that I last year
was given a nice plant of Paeonia rockii by a generous friend too.
Today I made some pictures, just before a heavy wind and rain started for some hours.
I hope they did not suffer much, because it is soooo beautyful.

Quite lovely Luit

[ian mcenery]

Here are a few more of mine

P cambessedessii just going over
P wittmanniana - I hope
P a self sown hybrid I am guessing is cambessedessii x molly the witch
P veitchii woodwardii raised from society seed

[annew]

Your self-sown hybrid is beautiful. Joakim, it was a bee, so I have hand pollinated this time.

[Sinchets]

I agree, a great hybrid Ian. Any clues as to which parent was the mother? I love P.cambessedesii, but would not want to torture it with a winter here.
Flowering today- bought as Paeonia mascula hellenica 'Sicula'

[Sinchets]

Some more from today- both from seed.
Paeonia peregrina
Paeonia mascula arietina (a different plant and seed packet to previous posts)

[David Nicholson]

Simon, how long from sowing to first flowering please?

[Sinchets]

David, it has taken 4 or 5 years for the ones I have shown so far. The seed was soon after it was bought from the seed exchange surplus in 2004. They germinated and were planted out the next year, then brought here in 2006. For some this is the first flowering. Some like P.rockii flowered last year. Some, such as seed sown P.veitchii and P.anomala, don't look as if they will flower this year.

[David Nicholson]

Thanks for that Simon, If the Gods stay with me I should have some nice pictures to post in a few years time. I have P.broteroi and P. liphophiola from Hans J's seed sown in June 2008; P. delavayi angustiloba and P. delavayi lutea from SRGC Seed Ex also sown in June 2008, and P. cambessedesii sown in 2007-all germinated very well indeed.

[Roma]

I've been meaning to visit the Cruickshank Botanic Garden in Aberdeen  since February but just got round to it yesterday when I took in some plants for the twice yearly plant sale.  The following two Paeonies were looking good.  I don' remember if the rockii (or hybrid) was bought as a plant or grown from seed but it has been there a long time.  It is growing in a very dry border between a high wall and paving with a large Pinus radiata hanging over from the other side of the wall.  I couldn't decide which was the best picture so have posted all three.   

[Ragged Robin]

Roma, your paeonia photos are taken in the most lovely light - my favourite is the obovata and it's great to see the flowers on the plant and a single in CU - delicious! The rockii looks pale pink or is some of that the reflection of the maroon centre?  I am going to look up Cruickshank Botanic Garden on the web and hopefully have a virtual tour today 

[Hans J]

here two pics from today :

P. broteroi
P. emodii

[Paul T]

Hans,

Is there anything in particular that edmodii needs to flower?  I've grown it for a number of years but have never managed to flower it, although the herbaceous hybrids and officinalis rubra plena flower well for me each year.  It just seems to not want to cooperate.

[Hans J]

Paul ,

I have nothing any special treatment for P.emodi ....it grows on a sunny place in my normal calcy soil -two or three time in year fertilizer ( Nitrophoska )....
I have two big bushes of P.emodi both from different sources ( one from Will Mclewin and one from w.c. seed from Afganistan )

[Sinchets]

Flowering on limestone escarpments around Veliko Tarnovo- Paeonia peregrina (?).
I counted and the woodland plants all had 10 petals.