One of my favourites, and surely my current top pick for a successful cut flower. Grand Massive, early, semi double white with closed, white buds. Very floriferous and an extraordinarily increaser. Sturdy stems, large buds, good stem length. I’d project this one to end up in the top 10 most sold cut flowers eventually, which is a bold statement,…Read More
2 CommentsOFF-4, which is Old Faithful x Coral Charm. This one (and the previous one CC-1-1) from Hans Maschke. Nice one, many good qualities, but the stems tend to fall open, despite them being as sturdy as its mother.
1 CommentI’ve grown some seedlings using OFF-4 pollen, and the curious thing about OFF-4 is the high percentage of hollow seeds that it makes when used as a pollen parent. Lots of nice glossy black seeds…but a very large percentage of them are hollow inside. I dealt with this by making 3 times the number of crosses that I might normally make, and f…Read More
Not really sure about the reasons they list. Transportation of open flowers is obviously difficult, but peonies that merely have ‘soft’ buds can’t be that much of a problem I guess? I’m also not completely sure that large growers only go once through their field to harvest them all. Sure, if you place twenty interim workers that have never cut…Read More
This is an unfortunate problem to hear about, as it’s something that could give the public a bad feeling about peonies as a cut flower. Here in Oregon the growers that I am familiar with make every effort to harvest their cuts at the proper time, and get a premium price as a result. Also, I know that the bosses of their crews know the proper…Read More
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Dark red ones shown on Facebook. First ever image I’ve seen of Sable. Peter Brand is in reality much paler and more reddish compared to Buckeye Belle. Red Glory I’ve never seen and the Russian (?) one in the lower right…Read More2 CommentsInteresting to see a picture of ‘Sable’. I’ve always wondered if it still existed. I obtained a plant of Pherson’s Sable x Eclipse from Don Hollingsworth some years ago, but it’s more of an oddity than anything else. It’s very very tall; much taller than other hybrids, with long and twisted awkward stems, and a red color that is not…Read More
Hello Bob. I’ve also got both Old Soldier and Valkyrie with the latter being my favorite as well and with the same remarks. Another nice dark red one is Night Watch, which grew very well here. Haven’t done anything with it. I do have a few seedlings with P. parnassica, although still very small and, until now, many of them have struggled and died…Read More
CC-1-1, which descends two generations down from Coral Charm. Many sidebuds and a better stature, but of course a single flower and a totally different colour.
2 CommentsNice to see these plants from Hans. I have quite a number of seedlings I’ve bloomed using Hans’ CC-3 pollen (a first generation from Coral Charm) which he was kind enough to send me several years ago. This was the year that they all bloomed : some showed signs of coral color, or interesting and uncommon shades of pink, and I crossed them all…Read More
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Een nederlandse video waarin de reporter op bezoek gaat bij My Peony Society, een collectief van pioenenkwekers en -kopers. Ze verhandelen ongeveer 30 miljoen pioenen per jaar, terwijl de totale Nederlandse productie wordt geschat op een goede 100 miljoen stuks jaarlijks. Wie wat inzicht wil in hoe de handel daarvan verloopt, kan dit best…Read More
CNB, a dutch broker for plant growers, organises a peony show yearly. Due to the coronavirus unfortunately not this year. Instead they’ll be making some videos this year to give you an impression of the people that show those peonies. First is Harry van Dongen. The spoken language is of course dutch, but there are english subtitles (choose ‘…Read More
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Elsa Sass, the last flowering one we use for cutting here. This marks the end of our peony cut flower season. A good one, these are third year plants. Last year the stems were a little thin and short, but they’ve made up for that now, taller and some 90% of stems very sturdy.
Myrtle Gentry, which is, according to many growers, the most fragrant herbaceous peony. Late flowering, full double pale pink on stems sturdy enough. Alas, it doesn’t grow very well here and I’ve lost a few plants of it over the years, otherwise it would top my ‘favourite pink’ list. The fragrance of this one is simply fantastic.
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