Paeonia 2011

[Lukas H]

Hello everyone,

The year is getting older and the plants are starting to grow. Even here in Switzerland the peonies show already their flower buds. But up to know none is in flower. But there are several seedlings which show their first leave. So it is not that far any more till the blooming season is arrived.

Good growing

Lukas

[Lukas H]

First Paeonia in flower. But "only" in the greenhouse. It is a division of my Paeonia qiui which flowers that early this year.

Greetings

Lukas

[Matt]

Hi Lukas and hi to all forum members,

I am a new arrival on the SRGC forum, so let me introduce myself in few worlds...my name is Matt. I live between London, where I work, and Trieste in NE Italy, where my garden is.

Attached are a few pics taken today in my garden...lots of promising buds, but still a couple of weeks for the flowers to come through!

I look forward to reading and seeing more from all the other members.

Matt

[Maggi Young]

Welcome to you, Matt.
The new foliage of paeonia must be among the most luscious of all. Such colours and such wonderful stems, who could resist them?

[zephirine]

Here in the hills at the foot of the Alps mountains, a welcome sight in these first days of spring: Paeonia tenuifolia 'Flore Pleno' seems to be born with its buds already developped. I know it will be another 4 weeks before they open, but what a treat to see them back! Between 5 and 7 buds have appeared (some are too tiny to be sure yet), instead of 2 last year! Yeah!

[Lukas H]

The tenuifolia always look funny with its flower bud which get, under an increasing weight, higher and higher day by day.

Thanks for posting

Lukas

[ruweiss]

The shots of Paeonia mlokosewitschii cannot resist the warm weather(up to 20°), rise rather
quick and promise a good flowering.

[johnw]

The shots of Paeonia mlokosewitschii cannot resist the warm weather(up to 20°), rise rather
quick and promise a good flowering.

Beautiful lusty shoots there Rudi!

johnw

[Lukas H]

Here are two more pics of emerging peonys.

The first one shows Paeonia daurica subsp. wittmanniana which is always one of the first with its shiny green leaves.

The second one is the common Paeonia mascula subsp. mascula

[Lukas H]

Here I have a special plant which is going to show its first flowers this year.

This is Paeonia algeriensis. It took me severel years to get the division make a second shoot. But now they even flower both! 

The other special plant is a rockii Seedling which have axil flower buds. After transplantation, there are mostly two buds each stem. But last year there were two stems which had 3 flowers per stem! This one has huge white flowers with dark red blotches, but not black blotches. All other seedlings of my garden collection of a rockii subsp. rockii (ex. linyanshanii) are one flowered plants and two were rose flowered.

Lukas

[Lukas H]

Here are some more emerging Peonies.

[Matt]

Hi everybody,

Risking a severe reprimand, this afternoon I climbed on the Rock Garden at Kew Gardens, and took a pic of Paeonia turcica/ Paeonia mascula subsp. kesrouanensis (according to the the Kew labels), which was in flower. It should actually be Paeonia kesrouanensis, after the last 2010 Hong De-Yuan revision.

However, the leaves look to me a little different from those of the plant in the picture posted by Hendrik Van Bogaert last year
(Paeonia 2010, Posts: 107, 03 April 2010)...any comments about this?

Matt

[Matt]

Two more images of an other plant of P. turcica in the Rock Garden at Kew and P. obovata in the Woodland Garden.

Matt

[Lesley Cox]

The new, tender foliage is almost as beautiful as the flowers to follow. Lukas, your first one, P. qiui is a treasure.

[Lukas H]

Dear Matt,

Thanks for risking a severe reprimand for us to take pictures of these wonderful and rare early flowering Peonies. 

Greetings