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Title: Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ...a interesting story .......
Post by: Hans J on April 29, 2010, 01:14:28 PM
Hi all ,

I have decide to make a own topic for this peony story ....

In year 2000 I have bought from a german nursery the famous Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ....I was keen for a long time for this plant .
After some years the plant startet with flowers and I was really dissapointet to see the flowers are only full red ....I wrote my contact from the nursery and I told him this ....he says it is normal that this plants flowers in the first years always like the orginal plant ( Shima Nisiki is a mutation from Tayio )

Some year later this plant flowers still only red   :-\..and it was pretty expensiv...but it looks well and healty and I have acceptet this plant   :-\-such things happens and I was normaly always satisfied with this nursery !

I have postet in 2008 pics of this plant :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1690.msg43896#msg43896

Before two days I looked in the evenig for my plants ( in this days flowers a lot of my peonies ) and it was like a shock when I saw the flowers :

THIS IS THE TRUE PAEONIA 'SHIMA NISHIKI  :o :o :o

....it is always the same :
we must have a lot of patience and never give up our hope !

Enjoy
Hans 8)
Title: Re: Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ...a interesting story .......
Post by: Carlo on April 29, 2010, 01:24:09 PM
Beautiful Hans. AND a strange behavior for a plant. I suppose it just had to grow up!
Title: Re: Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ...a interesting story .......
Post by: Paddy Tobin on April 29, 2010, 01:52:51 PM
Hans,

Certainly a very strange and interesting development in this plant - and a very beautiful one.

Paddy
Title: Re: Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ...a interesting story .......
Post by: Alberto on April 29, 2010, 04:38:00 PM
If one zooms on it can see you have painted it!  8)
Alberto
Title: Re: Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ...a interesting story .......
Post by: Gail on April 29, 2010, 07:18:48 PM
If one zooms on it can see you have painted it!  8)
Alberto
  Quite likely Alberto!  ;D

Lovely story Hans and beautiful pictures of a gorgeous plant; your patience has been rewarded.
Title: Re: Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ...a interesting story .......
Post by: Hans J on April 29, 2010, 08:31:42 PM
Thank you all for your interest !!!

Alberto :
how strange ....I do not paint my flowers ....also I make not flowers from wax
 ::) are maybe such methods in your country common ???
Title: Re: Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ...a interesting story .......
Post by: Alberto on April 29, 2010, 08:37:45 PM
are maybe such methods in your country common ???
They teach us at school just at the beginning!

Alberto
Title: Re: Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ...a interesting story .......
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 29, 2010, 09:43:53 PM
Like the old-fashioned striped roses but more sumptuous. A long wait, well rewarded Hans. I hope you are telling the story to the nursery from which you bought it. :)
Title: Re: Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ...a interesting story .......
Post by: Rodger Whitlock on April 30, 2010, 03:34:30 AM
Like the old-fashioned striped roses but more sumptuous. A long wait, well rewarded Hans. I hope you are telling the story to the nursery from which you bought it. :)

There are modern roses that are beautifully striped. "Fourth of July", "Fred Astaire", and "Ginger Rogers" come to mind, though I only grow the first of those.
Title: Re: Paeonia 'Shima Nishiki' ...a interesting story .......
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on April 30, 2010, 12:41:03 PM
Fascinating stuff Hans !!
A gorgeous flower !
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