Hi Hannah
I am a member of the Peony society..if you are interested i can share the seed list that comes from this years growing – But.. you will have to know.. many of this seedlings is open pollinated..

so the seeds is : Of this mother peony ( name ) – and the father is often open pollinated ( pollen )
This means that it is NOT the same peony…[Read more]

Hi Carsten

No i will not participate in this conference – the only thing i have done with this, to me many mails about buying their tree peonies.. was to give them some advise..

As they grow use to grow their tree peonies by seedlings.. and the seedlings that looked as some of the named ones, they gave the seedling.. the name –  it was not, as…[Read more]

That is a shame, but thanx for the answer though!

Took a look at the blooming chart and these seem to be the latest according to that chart:

John L. Crenshaw  (39 days)

Golden Dawn (36 days)

Charles McKellip (32 days)

Red Satin (25 days)

Polly Sharp (25)

Fantastic (25)

Avalon (25) (fertile)

The problem is that  I  can´t find any of them, except for Red Satin, in Europe. I found seeds fro…[Read more]

Hello Hannah,

Unfortunately it is not. I’ve tried several times but could never find usable pollen nor carpels. Cutting it down to promote growth of the secondary smaller buds didn’t help either, I got smaller flowers but they were still double.

I’d very much like a seedling of it because it’s very good, but I’m afraid it’s a dead end when it…[Read more]

Thank you for a nice article! Is this variety fertile?

Thank you for starting this thread and for the great information about varieties, and the peony bloom date chart! I didn´t see this until now, so I already wrote a similar question in the hybridizers group. Sorry for that 🙂

Michael Denny’s peony bloom date chart lists Dr. John L. Crenshaw as blooming 39 days after Red Charm.  It’s got to be a very obscure and hard peony to find, though. Elsa Sass is listed as only 15 days later than Red Charm, and Ann Cousins only 17 days later.

I am growing Lord Cavin (19 days) and Candy Stripe (20 days). They are new in my garden…[Read more]