Paeonia 2010

[Hans A.]

Paeonia clusii is one of my favourites.
Some years ago I was given three seeds of this rare species, two of them germinated and now the first is flowering - a wonderful flower although a bit damaged by cutworms.

[Gail]

Lovely Hans - it's one of my favourites too.  They have a good plant of it in the Davies alpine house at Kew, which unfortunately was about a week off flowering when I visited in 2008.  I must try again to see it open this year.

[Lesley Cox]

A beautiful plant Hans, lovely in flower. Gail I hope you can make it in time for the flowers to be open on the Kew plant (and post it here of course). It really looks a stunning specimen.

[iann]

That's a cute one I haven't seen before.

[Hendrik Van Bogaert]

Paeonia clusii is one of my favourites.
Some years ago I was given three seeds of this rare species, two of them germinated and now the first is flowering - a wonderful flower although a bit damaged by cutworms.

Hi Hans,
herewith a picture (from a few years ago) of two beauties: Paeonia mascula ssp. bodurii and P. clusii; unfortunately I have no close-up of clusii; plants are still alive and grows v ery well in raised beds; during summer the plants are protected against rain by glass.
Hendrik

[Hendrik Van Bogaert]

Paeonia clusii is one of my favourites.
Some years ago I was given three seeds of this rare species, two of them germinated and now the first is flowering - a wonderful flower although a bit damaged by cutworms.

Sorry Hans, wrong picture!
I have send a picture of P. coriacea instead of clusii and mascula bodurii.
Now the right one
Hendrik
 

[Hans A.]

Wonderful plants Hendrik - hope will et as large as yours.

Last weekend a paeonia specialist (and forumist) and me tried to spot Paeonia cambessedesii in the local mountains - here is one of the very few we found, still some days from flowering - it might be so rare here because of the high number of goats.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Last weekend a paeonia specialist (and forumist)

Another Hans on Mallorca ?? 

[TheOnionMan]

Paeonia wittmanniana is emerging:

[Hendrik Van Bogaert]

Today flowers Paeonia kesrouanensis.
Always the first paeony that flowers here in my garden!
Hendrik

[Gail]

That's very early! Like the red stems on that.

[TheOnionMan]

Today flowers Paeonia kesrouanensis.
Always the first paeony that flowers here in my garden!
Hendrik

Hendrik, where is P. kesrouanensis native to?  Not only are the stems red, but the red continues right up into the central vein of each leaf... beautiful.

No paeonias in bloom here yet, but I just love what these things look like emerging.  Two pics of P. wittmanniana emerging, one taken in low light near dusk, the second taken in bright light this morning.  The one of P. japonica.

[Hendrik Van Bogaert]

Mark,
P. kesrouanensis is a subsp. of mascula; it grows wild in Syria, Lebanon and Turkey (Boz Dag and Finike).
It flowers always very, very early (the first of all my wild species) and is here in Belgium completely hardy.
It is uncommon in cultivation but grows and flowers well.
Hendrik

[TheOnionMan]

Paeonia wittmanniana growth buds are expanding, such a muscular species in spring emergence, so I share this update.  Only just starting to emerge is an old hybrid, but a remarkable one indeed, P. 'Buckeye Belle', that has shiny intense blood-red petals.  The spring buds are bright red too.

[Lesley Cox]

You'll show us 'Buckeye Belle' when she's fully out Mark.