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Nikolai Vavilov, an extremely sturdy plant with very large single red flowers, bred by Harald Fawkner. Somewhat resembling The Little Corporal, but it is much taller. Named for a Russian botanist who fell out of favour of the Communist leadership undeservingly.
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River Tud again (outside growing this time), an as yet unregistered plant from Harald Fawkner. A very attractive, brilliant red colour on sturdy stems with dark green leaflets. Somewhere between single and semi-double. Don’t know what its parents are, but P. peregrina surely features in it, as the foliage is reminiscent of it.
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The lockdown and gardening.
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PVBM002, a good early single white, standing straight up, large white buds.
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A small documentary about a peony farm in my own country. In French, but you get to see several flowering plants with their cultivar name.
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Daedalus, a Daphnis hybrid. A very large plant here. Reliable and a very intense red colour.
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Hélène Martin. Actually a ‘Lutea-hybrid’ and it shows in the hanging flowers unfortunately. Otherwise a pretty, large, floriferous and healthy plant.
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Some seedlings flowering for the first time here. Nothing much can be said about them yet, but at least they have a nice flower.
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PVBM003, Pink Vanguard X Buoy Master that is. A semi-double, early and very sturdy pale pink with a nice fragrance. Other years it has been more double than this, something I’ve seen with other varieties as well this season. Perhaps the extremely dry and hot Summer last year?
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Two species that are close to one another. I should check in detail whether they are what they are supposed to be, but from a good source. First Paeonia anomala, then Paeonia intermedia. Intermedia should be somewhere between P. tenuifolia and anomala. From these plants I would agree.
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