It’s a small world… The seeds of it I’ve just received are from Vlastimil Pilous. They are ‘wild collected’  and if you don’t know the difference between hellenica and parnassica, the mistake is easily made, more so if he doesn’t collect them himself. We’ll see. I got some P. clusii plants from him and, although still very small, they seem to…[Read more]

Unfortunately, at this time I don‘t know a source of three year old Paeonia parnassica.

I received my plant from Vlastimil Pilous from Czech Republic. But in the last two years he offered wrong plants, which are Paeonia mascula ssp. hellenica, which also grow at the same location on Mt. Parnass.

The only Person, I know that offered Paeonia p…[Read more]

@jani if you know of a source for another three year old plant, I’d be very interested to know 🙂 I’ve once bought a small seedling, but as it turns out, it’s mislabeled. This year, for the first time after many years of searching, I was able to buy some seeds, only a few, but hopefully they’ll germinate and grow. Everybody I’ve spoken to that…[Read more]

I have my plant in a 20 cm pot. I bought the plant in 2017 as three years old plant but I don‘t know, how long it takes usually to the first flower.

Jan, thank you for the information. How big pots do you use?
is it common that it takes more than 6 years until the first flower? Did you plant a root or seeds?

/Hannah

Small update. Today, roughly one month after putting the test bags into cold storage 70% of the P. peregrina seeds has germinated, or started cracking. None of the tenuifolia seeds show signs of germination, maybe they need a 2nd heat period first. I’ll let it stay cold for another 2 months and then evaluate.

I have the same with Paeonia cambessedesii under glass. The leave is green now today and the new leaves are coming

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]