Paeonia 2010

[Giles]

First of the season with me:
Paeonia qiui P.decomposita

[Hans A.]

Thanks for the comments - I also was very glad to find them and did not expect to find flowering plants so late in the season.

Marvellous that your efforts were rewarded finding these beautiful Paeonia cambessedesii still flowering in the wild Hans - and what a habitat....did you have ropes? 

Next time I will take some with me...

Beautiful Paeonia Giles, thanks for showing - a species I have seen only very few pictures.

[Lesley Cox]

John, in Reply #24, the third of your four pictures, nothing beats but something eats?

[johnw]

John, in Reply #24, the third of your four pictures, nothing beats but something eats?

Support and compression in a tight spot come May.

johnw

[Lukas H]

One of my favourite Paeonia is the first which is in flower this year. It is Paeonia decomosita (P. szetchuanica)
Greetings from the sunny lowlands of Switzerland

[Gail]

Lovely flowers Giles and Lukas, and great foliage on that P. decomposita too.  I'm still waiting for my first peony but any day now....

[Lesley Cox]

Support and compression in a tight spot come May.

johnw

Oh, of course. I'd been visuallizing a rampaging flock of rabbits.

[Gail]

My first peonies are out now; P. mairei, sometimes said to be nutmeg scented, mine has more of a musky fragrance, and a peony grown from AGS seed that was said to be P. anomala which it is not, anomala has more finely divided leaves, this looks mascula-type; a good robust and floriferous plant.

[Lesley Cox]

They're lovely Gail, especially the AGS one. Shows how it is so much better if you can plant a group rather than just a single. The advantage of raising from seed, or one of them.

[Gail]

They're lovely Gail, especially the AGS one. Shows how it is so much better if you can plant a group rather than just a single. The advantage of raising from seed, or one of them.

That group results from just two seedlings that germinated, I regularly divide my peonies (well just slice bits off the sides of plants rather than dig them up) so I can get nice groups or share with friends.  I don't like having just one plant of anything in case of disaster (swift moth larvae eating the roots, being the main problem with peonies here)

[Regelian]

A new seedling this year.  From a double red-purple, possibly Kamada Fuji, crossed with Godaishu.  A single, but I really prefer them big and open with little filling.

[TheOnionMan]

Two Paeonia species opened today, after two days of warm sunny weather (82-86 F, or 28-30 C), P. japonica, and P. wittmanniana.  The general appearance of the flowers is similar, but P. japonica is a small delicate plant with white flowers, growing in an open shady location, and P. wittmanniana is an imposing tall brute with cream flowers, which is growing in full sun.

[Giles]

P.triternata (= P.daurica)
P.emodi
P.qiui (I think the earlier one wasn't qiui, but decomposita instead).

[Lesley Cox]

Mark and Giles, such beautiful flowers, sumptuous yet elegant. Thanks for sharing them.

[Gail]

Lovely pictures Mark and Giles.  Are you particularly sheltered there Giles - my emodi is still in tight bud.