Paeonia 2016

[David Nicholson]

David, wonderful colour.  One of the few species i do not have at the moment.  Hmmm, what is it, 6 years from seed?....................

Thanks Jamie, it was sown 2007/8 and probably handled quite badly until it was released into the garden about 4 years ago. Since then it has done rather well.

[GordonT]

Flowering today.
Paeonia emodi

Arnold- Beautiful to see it. I love the unique foliage on Paeonia emodi. How are you growing it? I have a few seedlings now, and would like to move one out in the landscape, but my concern is about winter hardiness. The web seems inconclusive on the amount of cold emodi can handle. Other tree peonies are doing very well here (Renkaku, ostii 'Phoenix White', High Noon, rockii, suffruticosa alba), so perhaps I should just take a chance with it.

[Hoy]

All from seed.
What is the correct name of this yellow tree peony? Paeonia delavayi?




And this red one, also P. delavayi?




Paeonia 'rockii'. Not as many flowers as last year.

[Hoy]

Also from seed.

Probably a hybrid. Nice big flowers though.




Paeonia obovata? The leaver are not quite right though. 10 big flowers this year.




Paeonia wendelboi?. Attractive for all kind of insects.

[Regelian]

Hoy,
your yellow look to be P. lutea, maybe var. ludlowii.  How tall is it?  Ludlowii can reach 3 meters.  The flowers are larger than the type.

The second red one looks to be a hybrid of P. delavayi, as there is some yellow cast.  Probably with P. potanini trollioides.  That said, there are reportedly yellow delavayi.  P. delavyi and P. potanini are easy to distinguish as the former is shorter and not stoloniferous.  P. potanini and its hybrids tend to make loose clumps.  Their leaves are somewhat finer segmented, but, as pure plants are rare in cultivation, I find the point moot.

hope this helps a bit,
j.

[Hoy]

Thanks Jamie

The yellow one is 3m tall! The reds are hybrids, yes. I once grew a peony that should be delavayi but it died and left a lot of seedlings in different shades of red. (Crosses with the yellow one.) The clumps are all tight in my view.

[Michael J Campbell]

Paeonia Lactiflora 'Shirley Temple'

[Leena]

From seed, Paeonia arietina

Very nice. I have now second year seedlings so maybe in a few years I will have flowers.

I love the unique foliage on Paeonia emodi. How are you growing it? I have a few seedlings now, and would like to move one out in the landscape, but my concern is about winter hardiness. The web seems inconclusive on the amount of cold emodi can handle.

I have grown P.emodi from seeds, but for some reason it has never yet flowered although it is already at least six years old. So it is hardy here, and I have a friend who has it also flowering in Finland.

Paeonia obovata? The leaver are not quite right though. 10 big flowers this year.

How do you mean the leaves are not right? My P.obovata ssp willmottiae has different kind of leaves than P.obovata ssp obovata.
Very beautiful P.wendelboi? What kind of place do you grow it? In the rock garden?

[Leena]

Some of my peonies from last week.
P.anomala, a big clump, about 1 meter tall but doesn't need any support. It holds its flowers in very typical way. This plant is one generation from will collected P.anomala, so it should be right.
I have several seed grown P.veitchii, and they flower the same time here as P.anomala, and have hairy carpels when P.anomala has glabrous carpels.
In the third picture there are P.veitchii and on the left a Finnish P.officinalis cultivar 'Kesähamonen' (Little summer dress)
Fourth picture seeds grown P.daurica sp (the white bits are fallen apple tree flower petals)
Fifth picture Paeonia x hybrida, which a natural cross between P.anomala and P.tenuifolia. It is a tall plant, I meter high with quite big flowers.

[Gabriela]

Beautiful peonies from all! 

[DaveM]

I agree. Here's my Paeonia mlokosewitschii, image taken last weekend.

[Hoy]

How do you mean the leaves are not right? My P.obovata ssp willmottiae has different kind of leaves than P.obovata ssp obovata.
Very beautiful P.wendelboi? What kind of place do you grow it? In the rock garden?

I'll take a picture of the leaves tomorrow

I am growing P. wendelboi(?) in a well drained place with sandy and rocky soil. It seems to like the spot and increase every year.  (I have to remove large quantities of Circaea lutetiana which try to invade.)

You have  quite some peonies yourself, Leena

[Hoy]

I agree. Here's my Paeonia mlokosewitschii, image taken last weekend.

Impessive, Dave! My plant do not flower this year

[Gabriela]

I agree. Here's my Paeonia mlokosewitschii, image taken last weekend.

Fantastic Dave. How many years till my 3 years old plant will look like yours?

[DaveM]

Thanks, I think my plant is about 9 years old.