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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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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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Finally, Hong’s third volume of ‘Peonies of the world’ has been published. We have some reading to do… It raises P. veitchii from subspecies to species rank and divides all species into seven groups. There’s obviously more in it as well, but we’ve only just received it an hour ago.
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And to end the season here are some images of my favorite pink one: The Fawn.
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Peony season is over here. Here are some images of Old Faithful. An excellent dark red late flowering hybrid. One of the very best thanks to its’ strong stems and other good qualities. It does fade somewhat as you can see from the images below. IMHO it is at its’ best when just open and when placed in a vase the fading goes much more slowly.
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https://www.thursd.com/articles/ten-classics-by-my-peony-society/
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From Green Works, a Dutch grower and exporter of peony roots. They have their own show garden with some 400 varieties. These are some of the early flowering highlights: Lois’ Choice, Paula Fay, Pastelegance.
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‘Ballerina’ is the most beautiful of all Saunders’s peonies, IMHO.