Paeonia 2011

[Maggi Young]

I am so excited by the photos of the wild peonies that I am practically speechless.. thank goodness my fingers are still working, so I can type! 

[Oakwood]

I am so excited by the photos of the wild peonies that I am practically speechless.. thank goodness my fingers are still working, so I can type! 

Dear Maggi, may be one time you would visit our native Crimea to see Paeonia tenuifolia fields on jajlas and Paeonia daurica in woods 

[Lukas H]

Dear Olga,

Thank you very much for posting these amazing pictures. Like all the others I can say not that much as I am speechless!

If you have as beautiful pictures of daurica from the Crimea we would be pleased to see them! :-)

Best regards

Lukas

[Oakwood]

Dear Olga,

Thank you very much for posting these amazing pictures. Like all the others I can say not that much as I am speechless!

If you have as beautiful pictures of daurica from the Crimea we would be pleased to see them! :-)

Best regards

Lukas

Lukas, I'm not Dear Olga at all, but if you insist I could partially replace her in some issues of Crimean peon pictures. So, please find here below P. daurica from wild Crimea and from my garden. Also I put here more pics of P. tenuifolia in natural habitats in Crimea growing together with Asphodeline taurica. Enjoy!  

[arisaema]

Breathtaking pictures, thanks for posting!

Does anyone know a source for the mascula ssp. arietina selection 'Northern Glory'? Lost my own plant this winter, just when it had started getting big

[Hans J]

Arisamea :

I grow also P.arietina "Northern Glory" ...I have searched for it many years ...
I have it received from a plantfriend from USA ( swap )
All P.arietina cultivars are difficould to get !

Hans

[Olga Bondareva]

Lukas, I am not good in Crimea peonies. I was there only once. I have one P. taurica (I can not wright daurica) but it is too young for blooming.

My dear Oakwood  , think you know what I want to do with your albino tenuifolia.  Images of Crimean peonies are breathtaking.

[Oakwood]

Lukas, I am not good in Crimea peonies. I was there only once. I have one P. taurica (I can not wright daurica) but it is too young for blooming.

My dear Oakwood  , think you know what I want to do with your albino tenuifolia.  Images of Crimean peonies are breathtaking.

My Dearest OlЬga      ME TOO!!! what would I DO with my very small and newly acquired albino P. tenuifolia many many times!!!!!!     

[Olga Bondareva]

Yes!  And you have to do it many many times because you have many many friends... 

[Leena]

I join all the others and thank for the wonderful pictures of peony species in their natural habitats, really great to see them! i look at P.daurica pictures with small hearts in my eyes.

Olga, what a fantastic picture of all the P. tenuifolia plants.  Your large packet of seed was well distributed. I hope.......

I hope there will be more seeds in the future, too.

[Leon]

The existence of P. tenuifolia 'alba' opens up a lot of possibilities.  P. tenuifolia 'rosea' has been reported to only spawn red seedlings. However, it seems that 'alba' chould actually bear seeds that potentially would result in white blooming offspring.  It will be interesting to find if it does or not. 

A few years ago there was batch of seed that came from Will McLewin that was P. tenuifolia 'rubra plena' X P. tenuifolia 'rosea'.  One of the resulting seedlings appeared to be P. tenuifolia 'rosea plena'.  A photo of that plant is on the HPS website.


If pollen of P. tenuifolia 'alba' is used on 'rubra plena' perhaps the second generation could yield plants of 'alba plena'.   

All existing tenuifolia hybrids are red.  tenuifolia hybrids using 'alba' pollen could result in hybrids of other colors.

This plant of P. tenuifolia 'alba' opens vast areas of opportunity.

Leon

[Arykana]

mine



and my neighbour's

[Matt]

Dear Oakwood,

GREAT HABITAT IMAGES! thank you very much!
Are the beautiful P. daurica "forms" you grow in your garden also from wild origin?

Have you got images of wild P. kavachensis, P. caucasica and P. ruprechtiana...all slightly different in the morphology, but all now described under the name of P. daurica subsp. coriifolia?


Dear Arisema,

Whit regard to P. arietina 'Northern Glory' (the one you lost), have you got images of the entire plant...or at least of the leaves? I might have a division for you but I want to be sure to have the right thing.

Matt

[arisaema]

Dear Matt;

Thank you, that would be wonderful! I received it from a good gardening friend years ago, but her garden has since been sold and I suspect the peony is long gone. Does this picture help at all? It was the only one I could find showing parts of the foliage.

[Oakwood]

Dear Oakwood,

GREAT HABITAT IMAGES! thank you very much!
Are the beautiful P. daurica "forms" you grow in your garden also from wild origin?

Have you got images of wild P. kavachensis, P. caucasica and P. ruprechtiana...all slightly different in the morphology, but all now described under the name of P. daurica subsp. coriifolia?

Yes, Matt. I'm culturing my P. daurica from Crimea. I haven't the pics of P. kavachensis, P. caucasica and P. ruprechtiana, pity.