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Reply To: different results with pollen vs. seeds
Hi Hanna, I read your question quite a while ago, and recently read this in Carol Deppe’s book Breeding your own vegetable varieties. Bob had the gist of it quite right. “The Cytoplasmic in Inheritance More than 99 percent of the genes in plants are arranged on chromosomes located...
Санни Герл – отклонение от нормы
Добрый день! Предыстория такая. Осенью после деления корня Санни Герл осталась не маленькая часть корня без глазков. Я этот слепой корень посадил так же как и остальные. Весна была холодная, лето опоздало. От этого корня росток появился с опозданием. Его листья не похожие на листья Санни Герл, они большие,...
Reply To: Early forcing of peonies (hoop houses and GA3)
Cool experiment, Koen! Seems very useful for your business.
Reply To: Buy peony roots for CANADA
In Europe, you can order peonies at numerous website https://dutch-bulbs.com/peonies/
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The American Peony Society just sent me their latest Bulletin. Lately they have done a lot of effort to make membership more attractive than ever before. Their website did receive a full revamp and for the future all past Bulletins wil become available online for members. That’s quite a treasure when you’re really into peonies. More information on…Read More
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The Peony Society added the event Ueno Toshogu Peony Garden
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Hello, if anyone knows where in Europe I can buy Rose Crystal peonies, I would be grateful for the information
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Didn’t expect it anymore, but apparently the third volume from Hong De-Yuan’s books on peonies is in print. The species classification is about to have an update.
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Hum, I wonder what they are trying to contend here, when they appear to show two different P.Brownii, and two different P.Californica ? It seems like they do this with several other of the species as well. Are they just saying that they looked at several different samples, or are they saying that they found distinct subspecies ?
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@bobjohnson I think they simply took two plants from different locations. Even within species there are small differences, both between different locations and probably, though smaller, also between plants in the same population. If you would stand before a population of such a species and could take home whatever you’d like, I guess we’d all go…Read More
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We have Brownii growing locally in the forests here, but despite it living at a higher altitude than my house, it blooms very early – much before the herbaceous hybrids at my home bloom. If one wanted to try hybridizing it, you’d pretty much need to have it growing on your own property I think, so you could keep track of the exact time that the…Read More
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Roger replied to the topic different results with pollen vs. seeds in the forum General discussion forum
Hi Hanna,
I read your question quite a while ago, and recently read this in Carol Deppe’s book Breeding your own vegetable varieties. Bob had the gist of it quite right.
“The Cytoplasmic in Inheritance
More than 99 percent of the genes in plants are arranged on chromosomes located in the nuclei of cells, and they are inherited according to Men…Read More -
It won’t be long before the specialized peony shops start showing their new offering for the coming season (harvest 2021). Most do this December/January so it’s a good idea to have a look at the website of your favorite trusted peony site to see when they’ll start their new offer as rare and new introductions are usually sold out incredibly fast.…Read More
Peony Assortment - Peony Shop HollandOur peony nursery is specialized in growing and multiplying exclusive, high quality peony roots and flowers. Peonyshop.com is a family-owned business run by Jeremy and Joshua (brothers). We propagate our peonies the traditional way and don’t use Meristem culture. The peony flowers are mainly sold in the Netherlands. The roots are exported all over the world, mostly to wholesale peony buyers.www.peonyshop.com2 Comments-
As chance would have it, I just found out that Colonel Owen Cousins can have a very poor plant habit with the stems easily leaning down due to the heavy flowers. Somewhat better in cold climates it seems, but I guess not the best recommendation. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1216285451864393/permalink/1763030040523262/
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Interesting to see that Joshua is already sold out of a number of items. Not necessarily the most expensive things, but some of the more common things too. Growers need to be able to estimate the sort of yield that they will get from their plants, as orders taken now are for fall divisions which will be taken from plants which have not even…Read More
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Dec 5th today, Canary Brilliants which rebloomed end of July after cutting down, is still standing green. The few plants in the front left row that hadn’t been cut back (the ‘comparison plants’), have no green foliage left. Mowing them all today as frost and snow is expected the following days. That clearly marks the end of the 2020 peony activities.
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Yuri started the topic Санни Герл – отклонение от нормы in the forum General discussion forum
Добрый день! Предыстория такая. Осенью после деления корня Санни Герл осталась не маленькая часть корня без глазков. Я этот слепой корень посадил так же как и остальные. Весна была холодная, лето опоздало. От этого корня росток появился с опозданием. Его листья не похожие на листья Санни Герл, они большие, широкие и темно-зеленые. Один цветок и…Read More
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Hello Yuri. Would you by chance have a picture of that Sunny Girl Unicum? It’s difficult to tell from your description and a picture would probably help a lot. I find it difficult to believe this would be a mutation from Sunny Girl. For several reasons:
1. I think mutations happen one at a time usually, thus perhaps a change in colour, or height…Read More
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Привет! У меня есть эти кораллы и я не ошибся. Может я не правильно понимаю что вы не увидели фото, которое я прикрепил? Фото не ошибочное. У меня еще есть видео в формате 4К. Там аппарат передает оттенки светлее, но все равно близко к истине. Их несколько кадров по 1-2 минуте. Я собираюсь это все соединить в один небольшой видеосюжет. Я не увере…Read More
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Hello again. You’re right. It seemed unlikely you wouldn’t know the Corals. In the forum the images are shown, not in the activity stream here, I therefore hadn’t seen them. That’s a software error of the site, sorry. It looks indeed like a more orange Sunny Girl, a bit in the colour of Canary Brilliants. Strange and unexpected, I would definitely…Read More
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Если это останется навсегда я буду очень рад. Реально в начале роспуска он темнее Canary. Он тоже есть у меня. Меня так же удивило то что и листья другие, и цветок другой. Но если это ситуация единичная, то можно попробовать воссоздать подобную схему искусственно. Ну это при желании. Осенью я для интереса посмотрел глазки на этом саженц…Read More
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Roger started the topic Backgarden hybridizing and replanting disease in the forum General discussion forum
I’ve got two related questions about replanting disease because I hybridise on a pretty small piece of garden and my garden grows fuller exponentially with seedlings every year, competing for space. I might have to grow plant on lots where peonies have grown before.
Does anyone know how some of the earlier hybridisers dealt with replanting d…Read More
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By replanting disease, I assume you are talking about the mysterious phenomenon, whereby peonies are thought not to grow well in soil which has been used to grow peonies in the past. Folks used to talk about this quite a bit in the past ; so much so that it’s hard to ignore the possibility that it’s true. But in my experience, and despite a few…Read More
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Thanks for your reply Bob. I’ve read also about the nematode, nutriant-depletion and “chemical hairroots” hypotheses, none of which seem to be validated as of yet, as you say. The effect looks like negative allelopathy; the way a walnut inhibits growth of nearby plants with juglon. I can imagine that, since peonies are such long lived plant…Read More
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Roger replied to the topic Placed to buy peonies online in Europe in the forum Plants market
My personal favourite: http://www.paeoniapassion.com
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Roger replied to the topic Early forcing of peonies (hoop houses and GA3) in the forum Magazine articles comments
Cool experiment, Koen! Seems very useful for your business.
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Vitalik replied to the topic Buy peony roots for CANADA in the forum General discussion forum
In Europe, you can order peonies at numerous website
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Vitalik started the topic Placed to buy peonies online in Europe in the forum Plants market
Let’s share a list of online stores where peony lovers can order peonies online.
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American Peony Society auction now live. If you live in the USA, it might be tempting.
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Alain replied to the topic Search photos of P. sterniana, sandrae, parnassica… in the forum Species
Hi Koen,
Thanks a lot for your long and detailed reply. It will help me to go ahead.
As you suggest, I will contact the ‘private’ specialised groups you mention.
I have ordered peonies to the belgian ‘nursery’ Albiflora (at albiflora.be) which are guaranteed as the true species: P. boduri, kesrouanensis, broteri, lactiflora and cambessedesis. I…Read More
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khurtekant replied to the topic Search photos of P. sterniana, sandrae, parnassica… in the forum Species
Hello Alain,
I can get you images of P. mascula bodurii (here’s one below, showing some details of the flower). Your best bet to get the other images are in the following two facebook groups.
Paeonia species (only species)
Species paeoniaBoth are ‘private’ groups but anyone with an interest in peony species is welcome to join. I usually post…Read More
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Alain started the topic Search photos of P. sterniana, sandrae, parnassica… in the forum Species
I’m a french amateur gardener for around 15 years and the late editor of the bulletin ‘Plantes de Montagne’ of the french alpine garden society: SAJA (Société des Amateurs de Jardins Alpins). I grow about 25 species and subspecies in the garden.
I’m writing for our bulletin short articles of 2 or 3 pages (under A5 format) on all known peonies a…Read More
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A very interesting article on peony hybridizing, its’ past, present and future. Authors are nearly all from China, showing that, at least in the domain of exact sciences, they are top notch. It’s in an ‘open access’ journal, so freely available to read. Not exactly bed-time literature as one needs to have a clear head reading it, but well worth…Read More
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A Russian video featuring some favourite peonies. Fortunately the names are also displayed in English.
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Had to look that one up as it was unknown to me. Seems to be a lactiflora x macrophylla (probably tomentosa) hybrid by Saunders. I can’t really think of an easy source for that one in Europe. There are some specialty peony nurseries in Europe that list several Saunders hybrids. Ruud Warmerdam at http://www.paeoniapassion.com or Daniel Giessler and Anita…Read More