Paeonia 2009

[David Nicholson]

Maybe it's an anomaly David.

 

[Guff]

Peony flowers

[Ragged Robin]

Great varieties Guff; all so different - peony 4 is my favourite

[Paul T]

Beautiful!

[Lukas H]

Hello all,

I am new to this forum. And I know that it is a bit late to post actual pictures of Peonies. I hope I can do that next year. I cultivate a lot of species of Paeonia especially interested in tree peonies. Here a welcome picture of Paeonia rockii. On the left, there is a Paeonia ludlowii, foreground (already passed) Paeonia anomala ssp. intermedia, white is Paeonia ostii 'Fen Dan Bei' and in the background Paeonia beresowskii. This is not my garden, this is the collection of Wädenswil (Switzerland) and a lot of my plants originate from plants in this collection. Hope you enjoy it.

It is very nice that you just can post your pictures straight from your Desktop. In other forums I post (mostly Cypripedium forums) it is more complicate.

Best regards

Lukas

[Maggi Young]

A very warm welcome to this Forum, Lukas.

We do hope that the system proves  easy to  all to use and you have posted a very beautiful picture for your first!
P. rockii has to be one of the most beautiful af all the paeonias, in my opinion.

[David Nicholson]

Welcome to the Forum Lukas and thank you for your very nice first picture. You will find many Forumists are interested in Peonies and you will also find we are much interested in your beautiful country.

[Ragged Robin]

Hi Lukas, what a terrific photo to start with in this wonderful Forum - you will feel at home in no time with all the interest and advice (if your need it!) from Members....tree peonies are fabulous and there are some great examples here to enjoy 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Welcome to the family Lukas ! 
I'm sure you will enjoy yourself here -  we certainly enjoyed your first picture !  An amazing plant !
Thanks for joining in.

[Lukas H]

Thank you all for the warm welcome

re anomala or veitchii

I have read that some of you have problems to distinguish anomala and veitchii. I try to show you the differences

Regelian is absolutely right. I cultivate both species in my garden. There are some differences as mentioned:

veitchii has up to 4 flowers (axillary flowers, similar to lactiflora), anomala has 1 flower
veitchii has tomentose carpels, anomala glabrous

these two are the most obvious differences. further:

veitchii has finer leaves than anomala
flower colour is more or less similar (veitchii is never reddish)
veitchii has smaller flowers than anomala
veitchii is usually a shorter plant than anomala
veitchii carries its flowers more in the leaves, anomala has them above the leaves
veitchii has 2 - 3 carpels, (except ssp. altaica) anomala has 3 - 5 carpels

But the veitchii anomala complex is still under research. At the moment there are:

P. veitchii ssp. veitchii var veitchii (Type, China)
P. veitchii ssp. veitchii var. woodwardii (has hairs on the veins, China)
p. veitchii ssp. altaica (ex. beresowskii) (has larger flowers and a taller habit, 4-5 carpels, altai mountains)
P. anomala ssp. anomala (single magenta flower, from Finnland through Russia to NW China)
P. anomala ssp. hybrida (ex. intermedia) (huge rose flowers, very tall habit, finer dissected leaves, from Finnland through Russia to the altai mountains)

Hope this helps

Lukas

[Lukas H]

Some more pictures of the whole plants...

[David Nicholson]

Thanks for that information Lucas, I think it shows that my plant, referred to earlier in the thread, is P. anomala.

[Regelian]

Lukas,

some really nice Paeonies.  Thanks for putting the differences between anomola and veitchii 'on paper'.  Makes a nice reference.

[Paul T]

Welcome, Lukas.  Wonderful pictures of some wonderful Paeonia.  Thank you!! 

[arillady]

Lukas I agree with Jamie that the illustrated references are great - so  much easier to see the differences.
Thanks for the great photos.