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Hans J

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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #75 on: May 16, 2010, 07:05:25 PM »
Robin:

Please do NOT die for this P.rockii ...we need you here  ;)

There is no problem to send you seeds in fall from my P.rockii !!!

I have seen my first P.rockii in year 1998 in Italy ( Centro Botanico Moutan ) .....the price for a flowering plant was 480 DM ......
In meantime I have many of P.rockii here in my garden -like you I love them really !!!
But this plant is not only a beauty - it is a very good garden plant- never I had a problem with them -they really hardy and much better for cold climates like P.suffruticosa or P.ostii

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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #76 on: May 16, 2010, 07:09:32 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on May 16, 2010, 06:00:33 PM
Paeony seedlings of any kind are well worth the wait, I reckon, but any rockii is more so!
Perfect photos of perfect flowers, Hans... and such a good provenance to put  icing on the cake!  8)

Many thanks for your compliment Maggi  ;D
As you know I'm a little crazy for peonies ....my problem is only the room in my garden  :'(
Do you mean 'Black forest cherry cake' ?

Hans 8)
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #77 on: May 16, 2010, 07:17:24 PM »
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There is no problem to send you seeds in fall from my P.rockii !!!

Oh Hans, I would be so thrilled to receive some seeds from you of your P rockii - what a challenge it would be to raise a plant from your stock and you imply as regards cold it would be OK in the Alps? 
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #78 on: May 16, 2010, 07:28:41 PM »
Robin

please look in my seed offer list .....I will list them in fall

I have just looked in my books ....there is written :
the home of P.rockii are the provinces Gansu ,Shaanxi,Henan,Hubei
the altitude is 1000 -3000 m
summer max. 40°
winter min. - 25° ( winter is from September - Mai )
around 36° latitude

If you find time so please visit the "Col de Lautaret" ...( 2000 m) ...you will find there a botanical garden with a lot of peonies !!!
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #79 on: May 16, 2010, 07:36:15 PM »
robin,
thanks...
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #80 on: May 16, 2010, 08:01:47 PM »
"Col de Lautaret"

What an amazing botanical garden!  I would love to visit one day...meanwhile many thanks Hans for your advice and I'll keep a note to watch for your seed list later in the year
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #81 on: May 16, 2010, 08:23:17 PM »
Robin ,

I have vist "Col de Lautaret" several times -it is fantastic.

For peonies you can look in the nursery of Riviere - a very good nursery !!!
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #82 on: May 17, 2010, 10:08:11 AM »
Quote from: Hans J on May 16, 2010, 12:38:00 PM
Before many years Will McLewin send me a little seedling of a P.rockii ....on the label was written :P.rockii from orginal seed ex Stern ( F2)
Now after reading the book from Will understand I a little more - there is written that Mr. Rock has sent to Mr. Stern a letter - ( there is also a pic from the lamasery from 1925 ) from this plants has collect Mr.Rock the first P.rockii seeds .....and I'm really happy to have material of the orginal P.rockii !!!
Will has given now this plants of P.rockii which growing in Highdown in the garden from Mr.Stern the cultivar name P.rockii 'Highdown'
Here is my plant :
Paeonia rockii 'Highdown'
Enjoy
Hans
Stunning plant Hans, that is such a beautiful flower, but as I understand it 'Highdown' is a clonal name, so can only be used for plants propagated vegetatively from the original plant and you say yours is a seedling?  The original plant of 'Highdown' died but Ivan Dickings, formerly plant propagator at Notcutts nursery and now president of the Suffolk Group of Plant Heritage, had taken some scions of the peony in 2008.  He has recently returned a grafted plant to the Highdown garden.  There is a useful article on rockii here -  http://www.paeon.de/h2006/rocks_peony.html
I was lucky enough to be able to visit Ivan's own garden where he has some fantastic peonies including a specimen of the lipstick pink 'Sybil Stern' named for Lady Stern and several rockii-type.
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #83 on: May 17, 2010, 10:18:28 AM »
Chris - some lovely plants there, your tenuifolia is a really good specimen.  You may want to keep an eye on the ?peregrina plant.  That brown blotch on the leaf can be an indication of peony botrytis which can spread very quickly.  I usually remove and bin or burn any suspect foliage.  See  http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/FactSheets/botrytis/botrytis_peony.htm
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #84 on: May 17, 2010, 10:36:37 AM »
gail, many thank´s...i´ll be careful...
regards
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #85 on: May 17, 2010, 11:47:12 AM »
Thank you Gail !

shure you are right with the clonal name ....I have it correctet in P.rockii ex Highdown
This information with Mr.Dickings is also writtten in the book of Will .

I know Carsten and his peony project well ....I have also worked some time for this german peony group .
Great pics of the P.rockii from Ivans garden

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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #86 on: May 17, 2010, 04:30:35 PM »
here are two of my favorite peonies from today :

Paeonia 'Gauguin' ( a breeding from Nassos Daphnis)
Paeonia 'Lavender' ( a breeding from Prof. Saunders)

enjoy
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #87 on: May 17, 2010, 06:48:05 PM »
Enjoying your peonies, - cant wait till mine open, molly about there but the others are running late this year.
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #88 on: May 17, 2010, 07:30:22 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on May 17, 2010, 04:30:35 PM
here are two of my favorite peonies from today :

Paeonia 'Gauguin' ( a breeding from Nassos Daphnis)
Paeonia 'Lavender' ( a breeding from Prof. Saunders)

enjoy
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Lovely Hans - you are lucky to have 'Lavender', there are not many plants of it around.  Does it fade to a bluer colour?
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #89 on: May 17, 2010, 07:42:04 PM »
Gail  ;)

yes ....Lavender is pretty rare -I have it from a friend from USA

the flowers are fresh open ....they will fade later
But : Lavender is a strain ...not a single clone !
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