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« Last post by Maggi Young on May 03, 2025, 05:52:22 PM »
Oron has been away - as is often the case - try further contact - I'm sure he'll get back to you.
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« Last post by Vinny 123 on May 03, 2025, 05:01:36 PM »
I dropped a mail to Oron maybe 3, 4 weeks ago and haven't had an answer as yet. Normal?
A group of friends are looking to place an order when the new listing appears and I was hoping that we could all order individually and then ask Oron to combine them.
Thoughts, anyone?
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« Last post by Maggi Young on May 03, 2025, 04:08:12 PM »
A couple of shots during judging from SRGC President - and Glasgow Show Secretary - Richard Green - of juding this morning at the show. The room looks great - seems like a really super show!   Thanks, Richard!! Judges shown in the foreground here are Peter Semple, Sandy Leven and Ian Bainbridge.
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« Last post by Kathy1987 on May 03, 2025, 10:05:15 AM »
Hi Claire,
the Iris Looks like Iris ruthenica, maybe var. nana.
Greetings
Katharina
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« Last post by Mariette on May 03, 2025, 09:44:51 AM »
Thank You, Jürg!
My problem is the layer of clay - the kind You make bricks of - below the 30-50 cm of topsoil. This means an almost complete lack of drainage. I should have to build raised beds for plants needing good drainage, another problem in our increasing number of hot and dry summers. Not only P. rockii on its own roots, but also several Chinese varieties on their own roots succumbed to the conditions here.
@ Jeff: As long as Your soil is well drained, it may be worth trying tree peonies. Preferably grown from seed or on their own roots.
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« Last post by Jürg P on May 03, 2025, 07:01:15 AM »
Also your seedlings look great, Mariette!
I also have heavy clay in my garden, but most of my peonies have no problems with it. Also P. rockii and its seedlings are growing well. P. rockii 'High Down' had a few years a problem but I guess it had to do with its grafted root, which probably started to die, and P. rockii's root were not well developped so far. But you can mix sand into your clay which would certainly allow you also to grow P. rockii.
I mixed my clay with sand and compost for some peonies which are naturally growing in more shady or forest conditions, like P. japonica, P. obovata and P. mairei. All these are also doing fine in my garden due to that.
However I do have some problems with some peonies, as they do not like their current conditions. Some I have replanted and given either more light or more shade and meanwhile I give also fertilizer, as I have not given any fertilizer to my plants in the past (as in nature there is also nobody fertilizing the plants; I have not done it in the past, but I realized in the last 2 years, that several plants started to get smaller and weaker).
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« Last post by Jeffnz on May 02, 2025, 10:31:18 PM »
Some great photos, have never grown tree paeonies as my conditions are to wet over winter.
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« Last post by Mariette on May 02, 2025, 09:37:34 PM »
Many years ago I got from a friend P. rockii 'High Down', a very wonderful P. rockii clone with the dark purple basal blotches. I pollinated it in the year 2020 with itself, but did not protect the pollination. While last year the first few seedlings flowered, some more flowered this year. One of them showed the outer filaments as small leaflets with anthers on it. The plant showed 2 flowers this year, but as it was the first year of flowering, I hope it will be like this also in the future years.
Attached is first a photo of P. rockii 'High Down' and second are 2 photos of my seedling, which also shows dark purple basal blotches (but also hidden by the leaflets of the outer filaments.
Very beautiful seedlings, Jürg! Unfortunately, Paeonia rockii and it´s F1 hybrids do not tolerate my heavy, waterlogged clay. Yet the seedlings of ´Gessekai´x ´Major Howell´ do all well in my garden. Maybe because they are growing on their own roots, or maybe because they are F2 hybrids.    The same flower somewhat later 
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« Last post by Gail on May 02, 2025, 07:23:04 PM »
What do you think and what are your observations on this?
Here are mine if it helps -photos just taken so not in full flower yet.  Paeonia 'Early Windflower' from I think Paul Christian  Paeonia emodi CC1764 - Kashmir wild collected seed from Chris Chadwell  compared the wild emodi has noticebly larger leaves with less segments but the flowers tend to stay cupped and look smaller. I received two seeds which both germinated but one promptly died so I only have this one clone and am sure they will vary. If you only have space for one then I'd suggest a windflower as the better garden plant - flowers are better displayed and it makes a fantastic specimen.
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« Last post by arisaema on May 02, 2025, 05:48:58 PM »
I like the genus, but the main problem here is a lack of hardiness... Did find one labelled R. henryi in flower today in the garden, it's for sure R. glutinosa: 
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