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It won’t be long before the specialized peony shops start showing their new offering for the coming season (harvest 2021). Most do this December/January so it’s a good idea to have a look at the website of your favorite trusted peony site to see when they’ll start their new offer as rare and new introductions are usually sold out incredibly fast.…Read More
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Interesting to see that Joshua is already sold out of a number of items. Not necessarily the most expensive things, but some of the more common things too. Growers need to be able to estimate the sort of yield that they will get from their plants, as orders taken now are for fall divisions which will be taken from plants which have not even…Read More
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Dec 5th today, Canary Brilliants which rebloomed end of July after cutting down, is still standing green. The few plants in the front left row that hadn’t been cut back (the ‘comparison plants’), have no green foliage left. Mowing them all today as frost and snow is expected the following days. That clearly marks the end of the 2020 peony activities.
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American Peony Society auction now live. If you live in the USA, it might be tempting.
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A very interesting article on peony hybridizing, its’ past, present and future. Authors are nearly all from China, showing that, at least in the domain of exact sciences, they are top notch. It’s in an ‘open access’ journal, so freely available to read. Not exactly bed-time literature as one needs to have a clear head reading it, but well worth…Read More
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A Russian video featuring some favourite peonies. Fortunately the names are also displayed in English.
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Name unknown – does anyone know? Tree Peony flowering now (August- late winter in NZ) but known to flower 3 months earlier….
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I have no idea what it might be, shrubby peonies are not my specialty and it is very difficult to identify peony varieties as there are so many of them. I like the color, but what surprises me is the fact that you write it is known to flower 3 months earlier than now, August. Considering you’re on the opposite side of the world, August would be…Read More
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I have gone back and checked photos and It has consistently flowered Aug/Sep or Sep/Oct for the last 7 years. I shifted it 8 years ago to a more sheltered less frosty position so that may explain it. Magnificent flowers but they often suffer from rot at the stem of the flower despite spraying a fungicide regularly.
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And for those that regularly buy from well-known USA nurseries, Klehm’s peonies go to Hollingsworth peonies (which itself was taken over some years ago).
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The man behind Paeonia rockii
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A story about a large organic peony growing company: Swenson Gardens.
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As chance would have it, I just found out that Colonel Owen Cousins can have a very poor plant habit with the stems easily leaning down due to the heavy flowers. Somewhat better in cold climates it seems, but I guess not the best recommendation. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1216285451864393/permalink/1763030040523262/