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Hello @lindapeony . Challenging it was indeed. For peonies at least we had our most profitable year ever, so we won’t complain. We are slightly earlier than Holland, about one week, but that does make a lot of difference. The last ones were mostly kept for ULO-storage, which failed miserably this year, but as the rest was very good… Early forcing went well, and GA3 as well, just have a look at the photo attached here (may be only visible in the ‘activity’ stream, not as comment below the article, software bug). This shows The Fawn outside during the season. The rows on the right had received GA3, whilst those on the left are naturally grown. The difference is about one week and the two series overlap somewhat, but you can clearly see that it’s possible to split work this way and have them earlier.
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The most profitable year!! A just reward for the efforts you had made.
The tunnel with GA3 should be much earlier than the ones with GA3 in the open field. So why didn’t you try more peonies in the polytunnels? Maybe the sky-high price period would be longer or earlier for yourself.
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I did. The results in the polytunnel are the same, about one week difference. It’s just coincidence that I got a better picture outside. I was unable to cut all of the Fawn and therefore you can see some flowering in the right rows in that picture and therefore the difference is better shown. In The Fawn on the left not one flower was in bloom and the picture was taken before I was going to cut them for the first time.
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Does anyone know of independent peony trials other that the large one reported in the dutch Dendroflora no 35 1998 and the new one in 2021 by the britiske RHS?
I am about to write a major article about the two for the Danish Peony Society and would like to consider all indeendent trials available.
Sincerely
Allan Høxbroe,
Denmark
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I think those two are the only independent ones, I quite regularly try to follow (scientific) literature on peonies and those are the only ones I know of that have compared many cultivars. The RHS study may be the most interesting one as it is more recent and thus also compares newer cultivars. The Dendroflora one is somewhat biased towards the…Read More
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Thank you, Khurtekant. We have read the professional report from RHS on the new peony trial and are in no way impressed. Several ways to easily make the trial valuable seems not to have been considered. And due to the pandemi the trial was cut short.
In the Dutch trial from 1998 we see exactly the same problems as you mention.
In this stuation we…Read More
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This variety was extra-sensitive to our late frosts for me. I grew it for many years as Bill’s Best Yellow, and although I had a big plant of it, I almost never got flowers, let alone any seeds. My home garden is small, and I finally dug it out to make way for another variety. But I sent the divisions off to some other people, so it did not go…Read More
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@bobjohnson I can see what you mean. This year we experienced the coldest and wettest Spring and Summer in over a century. Some varieties didn’t take it well and Vanilla Schnapps was one of the worst. Three quarters of all buds were destroyed one way or another (rotten, deformed and so on). The image shows some that were standing unsheltered, you…Read More
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Nelda’s Joy. A good one. Medium height. Upright stems, buds well closed and round.
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‘Nelda’s Joy’s buds are so graceful!
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Ballerina. Our favorite A.P. Saunders introduction. From the cross P. wittmanniana x P. lactiflora ‘Lady Alexandra Duff’. Saunders didn’t have too many doubles, definitely not in the first generation of his crosses. This is one of the very few exceptions and it really is an excellent one. Pale yellow flowering early in the season. Large flowers…Read More
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‘Ballerina’ is the most beautiful of all Saunders’s peonies, IMHO.
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Small change to the website: facebook login has been removed. Standard registration/login is now the only way to get to your account and interact with the site.
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Still testing long-term storage with ULO treatment. Lots of disappointments this year, I’ve thrown away thousands and thousands of peony stems. However there’s a glimmer of hope, these are now 80 days old after cutting them and seem to be the first bunch that is truly able to compete with freshly cut ones.
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Joshua Scholten’s peony farm in Holland specializes in hybridizing peonies to distinguish himself.
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Definitly 2021is quie challenging!! Too much raining and cold. Did your early forcing work with GA3 and polytunnels? Hope you meet the sky-high price period!!