A sunny and warm day we have, peonies going fast. Here’s what I consider to be the best single yellow: Concordia Droysen. Exceptional plant habit and an attractive lime yellow colour.
2 CommentsFéerie, a hybrid with P. peregrina, bred by Cayeux, unregistered, although some offspring is. Upright growth, looks good.
These are some failures within my seedlings, flowering now (Coral Sunset is now blooming, if you want to have an indication of their blooming period) . Flower pretty enough, but usually the plant habit is poor or they have ‘open buds’ which is something I don’t want.
2 CommentsPaeonia emodi. Not a particularly easy species to grow. Buds and flowers are very frost prone, although the plant itself is hardy enough. Early Windflower or Late Windflower are far superior, but then you don’t have the species of course. It’s difficult to buy the true species, unless you start from seed as I did. The species has foliage with less…Read More
A new seedling flowering for the very first time. Belleville x Vanilla Schnapps. Pale yellow and tall from large well covered buds. Looks good, needs some additional years to make a final decision of course 😉
Another seedling ‘PVLB Pretty Foliage’. The name already implies what is best about it, the flower and plant stature is ok, but not spectacular. The leaflets are heavily divided as can be seen. No ‘segments or lobes’ but just a lot of small leaflets, sometimes arranged one over the other. One of the plants which I consider to be very attractive…Read More
1 CommentA flower I have forgotten to pollinate. This is Paeonia arietina ‘Northern Glory’. An old, but rare selection, it took me a long time to locate one. I’ve posted images of it a few weeks ago, where it showed its pretty foliage. It is also known as the ‘Ram’s horn peony’. If you look closely at the dark red style/stigma above the carpel, you’ll…Read More
Just Peachy, a pale beige colour. Semi-double on short stems. Clean buds, including the sepals. Large buds also and sturdy stems with foliage all the way down to the ground. A very good early peony.
Valkyrie, a Bill Seidl plant. Very dark red on floppy stems unfortunately.
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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Six days later…