Tree Peonies 2009

[Paddy Tobin]

Hans,

Many thanks for the clarification regarding the names. Obviously, my yellow-flowering paeonia is P. ludlowii as it has small yellow flowers, does not sucker and has copious amounts of seed. My memory must have failed me. I was given this plant as a present 26 years ago, planted it in a previous garden, took it with me as seed and have it growing in this garden nearly 23 years now.

Many thanks, Paddy

[Hans J]

Paddy ,

do you have a pic of your plant ?
If you look in my pics from last year so you will find there a P.ludlowii :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1690.msg44265#msg44265

P. ludlowii is easy to recognize :
from here size -they can reach 2 -3 m
from her fruits - they made one or two  fruits with really big seeds
...they have not small flowers ....

[Hans J]

here is a new tree peony in flower ( for me the first time ):

P. 'Kinkoo'

I have received it from a friend from a Botanical Garden -I dont know exactly what it is ....but it looks if P.rockii was one of the parents ...
If I get more informations I will make a update ...

[Paddy Tobin]

Hans,

I don't have a photograph to hand and the weather is too bad to go out and take some now - tomorrow, if I can.

I have looked back at your photographs of P. ludlowii from last year and I believe that is what I am growing.

Paddy

[Ragged Robin]

A gorgeous colour tree peony and cute name 'Kinkoo' - does the word mean anything Hans?  

[Hans J]

Robin :

It is really strange for me with this name ....

Normaly is 'Kinko' or 'Kinkou' a cross from a P.lutea with P.suffruticosa -and this plants flowering yellow ( a other name is 'Alice Harding')

But I'm shure that my friend has sent me a true named plant -maybe it is a very old import from the 30 er year ( Goos + Koenemann )
I have it tried this afternoon -in the web is nothing to find ....

"Kinkou" means "Golden Light"

[Hans J]

Robin ,

I have now found some informations more to this plant :

The name 'Kinkoo' is questable ....this plant is from the China National Native Produce Shanghai 1983 or from Goos & Koenemann - in a older catalog is listet is under ( maybe ) the name : 'New Yersey'
.....anyway : a nice plant !

[Ragged Robin]

A really lovely plant, Hans, and looking so happy to be grown by you!  Thanks so much for all the information about the name, I do find it interesting how they come about...tree peonies are gorgeous carrying their blooms so generously even if the flowering is short it is magnificent and the leaf too has a lovely form.

[Hans J]

Thank you Robin 

For you ( from Valais ) is it not so far to drive to  France to Riviere ....( look in Paeonia 2009 I have post today a link to this nursery ).....they have a fantastic selection !

[Ragged Robin]

Will do Hans, thanks for the link...

[Hans J]

in year 1998 I have bought from Will McLewin my first P. rockii ( quit expensiv ) ....and I was really dissapointet when it's flowers in spring 1999 .....it was not a P. rockii 

I wrote him and he send me in next fall a replacement of a real nice P.rockii ....

This here is the (wrong ) plant :

P. 'Zi Ban Bai'

I suppose it is a breeding which has P.ostii has including - it is clear to see from the flower ( subsection vaginate ) and from the leaves

[Regelian]

This bloomed from the root stock of a chinese tree paeonia.  I am not sure, but think it fits P. ostii.  Any comments?

[Regelian]

I have to share these.  They are seedlings from my garden that I gave to a dear friend before they bloomed.  This year was the maiden.  Both are lovely.  The colours in the fotos are correct.  Isn't that lavender wonderful?  The cross was Renkaku x Kamada Fuji.

[David Nicholson]

Both are beautiful Jamie.

[Lesley Cox]

They certainly are lovely. Though I really love 'Renkaku' perhaps best of all. The Japanese names means, I think, "Flight of Cranes."