I’m glad you are keeping the Hybridizer’s Corner open. The fact that it’s somewhat hidden away is just fine with me, as I’m not a fan of social media pages for holding serious conversations. And Facebook seems to be so unfocused. Our Pacific Northwest Peony Society’s actual membership is made up primarily of commercial growers in our area,…Read More

Outside, newly planted ones. If storage of the roots is too cold and early Winter too hot, this may occur. We’ll see how they handle this cold spell.

Hum, I wonder what they are trying to contend here, when they appear to show two different P.Brownii, and two different P.Californica ? It seems like they do this with several other of the species as well. Are they just saying that they looked at several different samples, or are they saying that they found distinct subspecies ?

We have Brownii growing locally in the forests here, but despite it living at a higher altitude than my house, it blooms very early – much before the herbaceous hybrids at my home bloom. If one wanted to try hybridizing it, you’d pretty much need to have it growing on your own property I think, so you could keep track of the exact time that the…Read More

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/

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