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Giles

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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #30 on: April 20, 2010, 07:48:53 PM »
First of the season with me:
Paeonia qiui P.decomposita
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #31 on: April 21, 2010, 09:03:54 AM »
Thanks for the comments - I also was very glad to find them and did not expect to find flowering plants so late in the season.

Marvellous that your efforts were rewarded finding these beautiful Paeonia cambessedesii still flowering in the wild Hans - and what a habitat....did you have ropes?  :o

Next time I will take some with me... ::) ;)

Beautiful Paeonia Giles, thanks for showing - a species I have seen only very few pictures.
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #32 on: April 22, 2010, 02:03:05 AM »
John, in Reply #24, the third of your four pictures, nothing beats but something eats? ???
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #33 on: April 22, 2010, 11:33:44 AM »
John, in Reply #24, the third of your four pictures, nothing beats but something eats? ???

Support and compression in a tight spot come May. :D

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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #34 on: April 22, 2010, 04:58:14 PM »
One of my favourite Paeonia is the first which is in flower this year. It is Paeonia decomosita (P. szetchuanica)
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #35 on: April 22, 2010, 08:32:30 PM »
Lovely flowers Giles and Lukas, and great foliage on that P. decomposita too.  I'm still waiting for my first peony but any day now....
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #36 on: April 22, 2010, 09:42:27 PM »
Support and compression in a tight spot come May. :D

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Oh, of course. I'd been visuallizing a rampaging flock of rabbits. ;D
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #37 on: April 29, 2010, 09:55:10 AM »
My first peonies are out now; P. mairei, sometimes said to be nutmeg scented, mine has more of a musky fragrance, and a peony grown from AGS seed that was said to be P. anomala which it is not, anomala has more finely divided leaves, this looks mascula-type; a good robust and floriferous plant.

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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #38 on: April 29, 2010, 12:24:14 PM »
They're lovely Gail, especially the AGS one. Shows how it is so much better if you can plant a group rather than just a single. The advantage of raising from seed, or one of them. :)
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #39 on: April 29, 2010, 02:40:46 PM »
They're lovely Gail, especially the AGS one. Shows how it is so much better if you can plant a group rather than just a single. The advantage of raising from seed, or one of them. :)
That group results from just two seedlings that germinated, I regularly divide my peonies (well just slice bits off the sides of plants rather than dig them up) so I can get nice groups or share with friends.  I don't like having just one plant of anything in case of disaster (swift moth larvae eating the roots, being the main problem with peonies here)
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #40 on: April 29, 2010, 10:24:00 PM »
A new seedling this year.  From a double red-purple, possibly Kamada Fuji, crossed with Godaishu.  A single, but I really prefer them big and open with little filling.
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #41 on: May 02, 2010, 04:42:45 AM »
Two Paeonia species opened today, after two days of warm sunny weather (82-86 F, or 28-30 C), P. japonica, and P. wittmanniana.  The general appearance of the flowers is similar, but P. japonica is a small delicate plant with white flowers, growing in an open shady location, and P. wittmanniana is an imposing tall brute with cream flowers, which is growing in full sun.
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #42 on: May 02, 2010, 05:26:24 PM »
P.triternata (= P.daurica)
P.emodi
P.qiui (I think the earlier one wasn't qiui, but decomposita instead).

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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #43 on: May 03, 2010, 01:39:12 AM »
Mark and Giles, such beautiful flowers, sumptuous yet elegant. Thanks for sharing them.
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Re: Paeonia 2010
« Reply #44 on: May 03, 2010, 07:53:22 AM »
Lovely pictures Mark and Giles.  Are you particularly sheltered there Giles - my emodi is still in tight bud.
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