Paeonia 2009

[Hans A.]

While in more northern parts still Galanthus are in flower, and Crocus and Helleborus actually have started, the first Paeonias are in bloom here in the more southern part of europe: Paeonia cambessedesii   

[Maggi Young]

Wow! Yes, our snowdrops, crocus, eranthis and reticulate iris are just beginning!! Yours is another world, Hans 

[Hans A.]

Thanks Maggi, you are right, maybe  it is a bit warmer here
At saturday I had a very sympathic visitor from this forum in my house when the buds of the paeonia still were closed - two warm days and now they are open...

[David Nicholson]

Lovely Hans.

[Oron Peri]

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[Carlo]

...and I love the way it's growing out of rock! We don't normally think of paeonia that way...

[Miriam]

Very beautiful!
I wish I could grow these kind of plants here, but there is no way...maybe I need to buy an outside refrigerator like Oron

[ian mcenery]

Hans lovely cambessedessii while mine are only showing buds at ground level

[Lesley Cox]

Really lovely Hans. I guess if spring is springing in the north, autumn will very soon be falling here. Leaves are turning already and we may get a few frosts after all this rain, welcome though it is, now in the 6th day without a break except of a few minutes here and there. A heavy fog as well today.

[fermi de Sousa]

...and I love the way it's growing out of rock! We don't normally think of paeonia that way...

I'm sure I saw them planted in the Rock Garden in Kew because that's what I did with the seedling I grew and it's been flowering size the last few years http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2436.105 reply 116 includes a pic of it last year. Hopefully it will survive our extremely hot summer to flower again next year ( unless it gets frosted!)
Hans
it's lovely to see your pic of this paeonia in the wild.
Lesley, please stop talking about rain!
cheers
fermi

[Hans A.]

Thanks for the comments,
@Miriam - I would think this species can be grown in Israel in a shady place and little watering.
@fermi - even if it looks untidy - the plants grow in my garden - this are 5 years old seedlings and I do not feed them very much so they look a bit skinny

[Lesley Cox]

Sorry about that Fermi, I know you need rain so much. Otto says he's had nothing since mid December. It's stopped here for the moment but more is forecast for Friday and Saturday, in time for me to be drenched again at the Market. 8 hours last Saturday with sodden clothing but I didn't get a cold though I expected to.

This is my favourite Paeonia species.

[cohan]

While in more northern parts still Galanthus are in flower, and Crocus and Helleborus actually have started, the first Paeonias are in bloom here in the more southern part of europe: Paeonia cambessedesii   

at least a couple of months before there will be any flowers outdoors here! maybe sooner for pussywillows!
nice to see this species paeonia, very innocent looking compared to the grand madame hybrids..

[Oron Peri]

Two rare species are in flower now,
P. mascula, only a few dozen plants are growing in one location in the Galilee.
P. clusii from the Island of Rhodos.

[arillady]

Oron what conditions is P. mascula growing in? Might be one of the few Paeonia I can try to grow.