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Title: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Thorkild Godsk on December 19, 2013, 01:13:26 PM

. Paeonia rockii
Paeonia rockii hybrid seeds I received in 2003 from Phedar, here is the result.
Thorkild. DK

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Maggi Young on December 19, 2013, 01:17:14 PM

Superb! Especially  the second photo.
 Are all the plants equally robust?

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Thorkild Godsk on December 19, 2013, 01:29:15 PM

Yes they are all equally robust

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Maggi Young on December 19, 2013, 01:40:11 PM

Even better - all will be fine additions to your garden as well as being such pretty flowers.

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Anne Repnow on December 21, 2013, 04:49:16 PM

Your hybrids are quite gorgeous. Congratulations!
(Your success gives me hope for my own (still tiny) seedlings...)

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: ruweiss on December 21, 2013, 10:51:54 PM

Bought this Paeonia Hybrid Chojuraku 2 years ago from a
Bavarian Nursery and it flowered this year in May for the
first time.

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Anne Repnow on December 22, 2013, 02:27:24 PM

Lovely! Quite as beautiful as the original 'Shimane chojuraku'
The coloring doesn't seem to be too different - but that is difficult to tell. Much depends on the light, I find.

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Anne Repnow on December 22, 2013, 02:34:34 PM

Here is a Paeonia rockii hybrid given to me by Wolfgang Gießler, the wonderful peony nursery sadly completely flooded in early summer. Looks very much like one of yours, Thorkild. Brightens up these dark days...

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: plantsman50 on December 28, 2013, 06:04:01 PM

They are indeed wonderful plants. Silly s*d here has been looking for the 'like' button to click then realised it is not Facebook!

Martin

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Anne Repnow on December 28, 2013, 08:58:04 PM

 ;D
One does get muddled...

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Thorkild Godsk on December 29, 2013, 10:24:41 AM

Paeonia rockii.
I think it is best to sow seeds rather than buy grafted plants, plants from seed is stronger, I think. When I bought Paeonia seeds from Phedal has always been good.
 4 image more of Paeonia rockii.
Thorkild-DK

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: rosa on February 13, 2014, 11:56:01 AM

I think you've hit the nail on the head re. grafted versus seed-raised. I grow P. delavayi, lutea, potaninii near the sea in the Shetland islands, all raised from seed, but struggle with P. rockii in sheltered positions - grafted plants.

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Thorkild Godsk on February 13, 2014, 03:41:37 PM

Hello
I understand you well if you have been looking for the fine "Moutan rockii hybrids." My congregation is that the grafted plants frost cracks, and after a period of some years, they suddenly finished. I sow seeds because I will have plants on their own roots, it is my opinion. Thorkild

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Regelian on March 05, 2014, 09:39:37 PM

Could be something to the grafting being less hardy, but you would wonder why.  I have many grafted Paeonia in the garden and they are all fine.  Most likely they are on their own roots at this point.  I have 3 Rockii hybrids, but these are divisions of plants originating from Lithuania.

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: littlebin on April 25, 2014, 05:42:14 PM

So beautiful!

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: Maggi Young on April 25, 2014, 06:03:43 PM

Welcome, 'littlebin'  -  good to have a newcomer arrive with such great taste   ;) :D

These paeonia are sublime, are they not?

Title: Re: Paeonia rockii
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on April 27, 2014, 04:49:20 PM

A nice unnamed pink form of Paeonia rockii, and Paeonia 'Shimona-Fuji'