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This Peony was given to me 2004 by Jenny Archbald the widow of Jim Archbold. She said Jim grew the plant from seed collected by himself reference JJA19.199. It had never flowered. The pot was labelled 19.199
It first flowered in March 2011.
The photo of the plant in flower was taken in May 2021.
This year it has 12 flower buds and will hopefully flower shortly.
I am told it is P.wendelboi. JJA19.199 was collected in the Talysh around 2000m.![]()
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Thanks for your comments. I was growing the plant in alkaline stony ground at my allotment, which has public access. I dug it up last Autumn and now keep it in a large terracotta pot at home. Photo taken today.
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It is Paeonia wendelboi indeed. Very pretty and still very rare (and very expensive), not many people grow it so I’m sure there are many peony species lovers that are envious of your mature plant. The reference you give is to this species and in the Talysh mountains you have P. daurica ssp tomentosa on the side of the Caspian Sea at more or less the tree line where there is a lot of rain, whilst P. wendelboi grows on the other side of the mountains which is very dry and sunny.
There’s more info here, feel free to post some more pictures of it :-)