I live in the land of late freezes.  We live at 3,600′ at the base of the Cascade mountains in what is basically the desert.  Once it clears off at night, it’s normal for temperatures to drop into the high 20’s.  We’ll normally get some level of frost for many nights before bloom time.  It’s been my experience that buds remain more resistant to…[Read more]

Luriel,

I doubt that it’s micropropagation, if it has anything to do with the Corals !  They corals are  the very easiest peonies to propagate quickly, because of their adventitious nature, and would be the last peonies that one would want to use micropropagation on !

Having said that, while intersectionals have been successfully m…[Read more]

An interesting topic and most people that grow peonies will have experienced some frost damage at one time or another.  I’ve been looking for some more information about it and especially on what cultivars might fare best.

In a post dated April 5th 2013 by Henry Chotkowski (who posted the original topic here) on the Yahoo Peonybreeders forum,…[Read more]

The question about easier ways of Registering
Is NO..
– beside the registering of a cultivar, there is also many years of growing the new cultivar and growing it under different lokations, it has to be different to what is already made.. and more things.. that an registrar has to examine
But..We are in a time where things are changing.. and we can…[Read more]

My first thought is that it could very well be – Micro propagation !!

– If Coral Charm.. has been under the program where you can propagate by micro propagation
we growers are seeing that –  when you propagate this way. other genes can be active.. and other.. as here colors
Also as you mention.. the operater could be interested in removing the…[Read more]