Hello Hannah,

Paeonia parnassica is not easy in cultivation. The best ist pot culture.

I have a 6-year old plant, I hope for the first flower in 2020 or 2021. And a young plant too.

I have my plant in a pot under glass from october to march. The other time half-shade near my house with protect again summer rain.

Soil is 3 parts potting…[Read more]

Roger, I have a slight seed addiction problem you could say 🙂

At the moment I have no good space for all seedlings, so I have to plant them out with too little space between. This is a problem every year, but some how I have managed until now. I have no idea of where to plant all of these. But I´ve been looking for a place for a while now, and…[Read more]

Thanks, Hannah for your reply. You’re obviously more experienced than I am and those are great statistics indeed.  Please do let me know how those rockii seedlings perform. And I’m also a curious what you’re planning to do with all those rockii seedlings. It amounts to quite a big plot of land when they mature, do you have that amount of space (I…[Read more]

Thank you very much, Koen. I think your research will help us very much indeed. I will now let our chairman in the Danish Peony Society take over to do exact arrangements. The American Peony Society also were a great help finding two other contacts.
How very nice to have your website, which I think nobody knows in Denmark, except for Luriel. I…[Read more]

Roger, Thank you for your thoughts.

Actually I don´t find it strange at all that the seeds germinate when I put them cooler. The seeds has been started indoors in a nice moist vermiculite for around 3 months. Now when I lower the temperature for them they realize that winter is on it´s way and that they have to form a root. I actually didn´t co…[Read more]

Thank you Koen for posting for me!

Hi Hannah,

I’ve probably not a percentage of the experience of Sabrina, but I’ve used both the indoor and outdoor method in the last four years with all sorts of peony seeds and the outdoor method for me is much less hassle than the indoor method, with greater chance of succes. No need to check the progress of your seeds, no trouble acc…[Read more]