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A 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
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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.
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Valkyrie, a Bill Seidl plant. Very dark red on floppy stems unfortunately.
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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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Last year my ‘Lorelei’ made a flower much lighter than the original, special neon-orange-reddish pink colour (how to describe the colour of ‘Lorelei’ – impossible!) . I will check if this happens again, and then isolate the part of the root.
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@ruud Mine comes from Ruud; it would be interesting to know the name :) ‘Lorelei’ is a slow grower, and seems to wander off, now some stems grow well apart from the main plant.
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@leena @khurtekant
I do have a selection from my Lorelei. Found this mutation in 2011, in the week that my (not-so-little-girl-anymore) was born. Logic and with the heart in my head, I have garden named it after her: Nikita. Ever since I have been monitoring this mutation, to see if remains stabile. And so far it does. I have been propagating it…Read More-
Dear Ruud, thanks for your prompt reply. I did write once about this (with photos) on the APS Fb group, addressing Don H, but never received any comments or replies from anyone. I had just one flower (last year) on a stem in the corner of the plant (which seems to have an officinalis tendency to wander around). I will keep a close eye on the…Read More
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Actually the crawling habit might be more the peregrina pedigree (it is believed that Rubra Plena etc. are of peregrina pedigree also). For me Lorelei is a wonderful grower. True, the first two years it can be slow compared to others. But then… It just takes off! I am picking 15-20 stems per plant from my cut flower block (picture) every year.
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My Rubra Plena is all over the place and peregrina stays put. Hm….How wonderful it would be if this blonde version of ‘Lorelei’ was a ‘Nikita’ – you know I have it on my wish list since you showed me the photo for some years ago, but I never thought it would be a Lorelei mutation. I will certainly keep you posted, and hugs to the Real N.
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@ruud – found a very bad photo of the plant from last year with both flower colours.
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Very odd, to me. No double appearances in my Lorelei’s nor in my “Nikita’s”. My selection is 100% similar to Lorelei, in every aspect. And my Nikita with long hair enjoyed your hug very much!
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@ruud Ruud Warmerdam has such a mutation from Lorelei if I recall correctly. I think he even named it, but I don’t remember how. Nice colour, but Lorelei never has been a good grower for me.