I've grown quite a number of peonies in pots, and grown them to the point where I'll get herbaceous types with 3-4 blooming stems, growing in a #3 pot. But these are peonies that I've grown from seeds, and potted them along to larger pots every year. As young...

Interesting to see your results, and to see that you've gotten germination so quickly ! I'd be interested in knowing what your temperature routine was, and if you used this year's seeds ? I have my ways of doing it, but I can't say that I've...

Dear Paul, It certainly was a pleasure to read your article. Hybridizers often work in semi-isolation it seems, so it was interesting to see how many conclusions that you and I share. As you said, wonderful looking seedlings don't always look as wonderful as they first did, when...

I've had signs of this same sort of speckled pigmentation show up in some of my herbaceous hybrid seedlings. Nothing as dramatic as happened with 'The Fawn' but it does seem like a phenomenon which can show up in other instances too. Bob Johnson

It's interesting that Mr Krupke said that the prominent carpals on 'Cristina' would not make seeds for him, while at the same time, it's pollen is good. This may (or may not ! ) be the case with other "impossible" crosses between triploids and tetraploids - their...