Paeonia 2012

[chasw]

Well it is what I purchased it as many years ago from Ashwoods but googling it on the net seems to bring up something different ..............................any ideas?

Well just found this so maybe it is right

http://www.flickr.com/photos/versicolor/3577778088/

[Hans J]

Sorry Chas ,

here is a pic from the real P.off.anemoniflora :

http://www.paeon.de/h2005/botanical_magazine/3175.html

Hans

[chasw]

O.K.so any ideas?

Kalle dk?

[Hans J]

Chas ,

your plant looks for me a normal P.officinalis ...they have big variations ( depending from which area they came )

I suppose your plant is grown from seeds ...and thats not possibly with such a cultivar

You could look for this plant in the nursery of Riviere/France ...

Hans

[chasw]

O.K thanks Hans will have to search more thoroughly.................................more research needed I think

[Lori S.]

Sorry Chas ,

here is a pic from the real P.off.anemoniflora :

http://www.paeon.de/h2005/botanical_magazine/3175.html

Hans

Ah, then I guess mine is a normal P. officinalis too... just as well, I like it better anyway!    Thanks for posting this.

[Darren]

A couple from me.

First flowering of P. clusii from seed sent by a forumist several years ago. I'm delighted by this!!  Pic is a few weeks old - it actually flowered in late March.

Next is an unidentified tree peony we bought in a local garden centre last year because of its strong rose scent. Now it is properly established we really like the flowers too.

[David Nicholson]

I'm quite proud of this one, grown from seed sown 16 June 2008. The seed was from SRGC Seed Ex. 2006/7- 2678 (could it have been from HansJ-hope you read this Hans). Flowering for the first time and just have been released into the garden from a 3ltr. rose pot. I think there were five seeds and all germinated and gave me some seedlings to sell on the member's Plant Stall at last years South West AGS Show.

The seeds were labelled Paeonia delavayi forma lutea although this one looks, well, to my inexperenced eye, to have a fair amount of P delavayi angustiloba blood in it. What do otheres think? I got seed of angustiloba from the same Seed Ex. (2676) and again they gave me seedlings to sell as well as a couple I have kept and one of those has been released into the garden. No flowers on this one yet though.

[ronm]

I only grow a few species Paeonia, and cannot really comment on the nomenclature. But I know that I really like the look of this one David.
Surely well worth the effort,

[Michael J Campbell]

Very nice David,mine didn't flower very well this year,they aborted the buds with the warm dry  spell in March.

[ronm]

Seems like the ants like yours as much as they do mine
Why is this with Paeonia?

[David Nicholson]

Thanks Michael and Ron.

My garden's absolutely crawling with ants as it is most years and I spent half an hour spraying them today. A new bit of rockery I made recently is full of them. Ian Young has no trouble at all from ants.

[Michael J Campbell]

I have had a plague of ants (very small black ones) in the living-room for the past two weeks,just got rid of them yesterday.

[ronm]

Why are you killing them David?( interest not criticism) Are they doing harm?
Seems Paeonia are very attractive to them. I don't know why? I'm thinking sugar but may be well off beam!!

[arilnut]

An old wives tale around these parts is that the ants eat the sticky nectar
on the the buds and this enables the buds to open.

John B

Why are you killing them David?( interest not criticism) Are they doing harm?
Seems Paeonia are very attractive to them. I don't know why? I'm thinking sugar but may be well off beam!!