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An interview with Silvia Saunders in the New York Times (1974). Silvia Saunders (1901-1994) is the daughter of A.P.
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P. coriacea is a species which grows in the mountains in both the south of Spain (Sierra Nevada) and Morocco (the Rif and Mid-Atlas). Not too much information can be found, it is difficult to obtain and grow and
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Bill Seidl, a well-known American hybridizer of advanced herbaceous and tree hybrid peonies, passed away October 8th, 2016. I’ve only had a few short e-mail conversations with him several years ago, so I
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Read MoreBill Seidl, a well-known American hybridizer of advanced herbaceous and tree hybrid peonies, passed away October 8th, 2016. I've only had a few short e-mail conversations with him several years ago, so I won't claim to have known him...
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Lois’ Choice was picked by the American Peony Society (APS) as the 2017 Gold Medal winner and hence also as the 2018 peony of the year. It’s a quite recent introduction from Chris Laning, not too tall, but with
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The site is working fine now. Registration and logging in works like a charm. If you have a story to share, you can either post something in the forum or if you have a longer article on offer, then you can submit
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Something bizarre happened this year. As I was wandering through my fields of blooming peonies, I passed at a row of some 20 Rozella plants. In between the row of dark pink flowers were three pale pink ones,
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Here it is again Bob, in the Dutch Dirt. Needs “The Hand”, but fun it is. Now to see if I can get some pollen from it.
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Could only upload one picture at the time. Now with the infamous hand..
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Ballerina is a peony bred by A.P. Saunders in 1941 from the cross Wittmanniana x Lactiflora ‘Lady Alexandra Duff’. This one is in fact a difficult cross as Saunders himself would put it:
“This
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Canary Brilliants is one the finest Itoh-hybrids. This one has been bred by Roger Anderson and was registered in 1999. There are four Itoh-hybrids that I would candidly recommend: First Arrival, Garden Treasure,
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“Blushing Princess’ children were on average far better than Pink Vanguard’s children with the same father. But in the end, the best plants were from Pink Vanguard x Lavender Baby as I had ten times as much plants to choose from. ”
This is a great article Koen. It’s always educational to hear about other’s hybridizing results. But in the end it can be as you said in your quote : More than the public may realize, rather than intrinsically being a matter of cleverness, hybridizing is often a numbers game.
We see a wonderful registered result from a cross, but we don’t see all of the others from that very same cross that were duds. Growing many seedlings from the same cross may be the brute-force method it’s true, but that’s often what it takes to get a pleasing result.