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« Reply #30 on: October 11, 2010, 01:03:18 PM »
Lovely, Fermi!  A reminder of what to look forward to.
By contrast, the state of peonies here... so much interest throughout the season!

* paeonia P1020943.JPG (314.01 KB, 525x700 - viewed 49 times.)
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« Reply #31 on: May 21, 2011, 02:21:26 PM »
Peony time!
Here are some, mostly unknown from seed - some are possibly hybrids.

* Paeonia sp1 2011 mai21.JPG (223.83 KB, 950x713 - viewed 21 times.)

* Paeonia sp2 2011mai21.JPG (207.47 KB, 950x713 - viewed 19 times.)

* Paeonia sp3 2011mai21.JPG (211.83 KB, 713x950 - viewed 19 times.)

* Paeonia sp4 2011mai21.JPG (154.27 KB, 950x713 - viewed 20 times.)

* Paeonia sp5.JPG (129.83 KB, 950x713 - viewed 22 times.)

* Paeonia mlokosewitschii 2011 mai21.JPG (137.57 KB, 950x713 - viewed 25 times.)

* Paeonia Rockii group 2011mai21.JPG (181.97 KB, 713x950 - viewed 25 times.)
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« Reply #32 on: May 23, 2011, 03:44:37 PM »
Very nice, Trond.  There  are none in bloom in my yard yet.

Everyone who hasn't should see this, from the SRGC site!
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6964.msg201588#msg201588
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« Reply #33 on: May 23, 2011, 04:42:17 PM »
The weather here has been atrocious, more like the Falklands than Massachusetts, and my first peony to open, P. mascula, lost it's flowers to the rain before I had a chance to get a decent picture. My P. veitchii, which I've had for 14 years, is in full bloom and because it's flowers are nodding, it has survived the rain well, and is looking absolutely superb. Over the next few days, assuming we'll actually get some sun, most of my other species peonies will be opening, and I'll post some photos as they do.

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* Pveitchflower_00.jpg (72.79 KB, 640x480 - viewed 28 times.)
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« Reply #34 on: May 23, 2011, 08:32:36 PM »
Gorgeous, Peter!  People talk of the value of lawns for "setting off" plantings but I think a sand bed does just as well, and with much greater interest!

I am always confused by P. rockii... is it a tree peony, or a herbaceous one?
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« Reply #35 on: May 24, 2011, 02:33:27 AM »
Quote from: Skulski on May 23, 2011, 08:32:36 PM
Gorgeous, Peter!  People talk of the value of lawns for "setting off" plantings but I think a sand bed does just as well, and with much greater interest!

I am always confused by P. rockii... is it a tree peony, or a herbaceous one?

P. rockii is a tree peony!
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« Reply #36 on: May 25, 2011, 09:51:30 PM »
Finally... an unknown from the front yard:

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« Reply #37 on: May 27, 2011, 07:47:34 AM »
Quote from: Skulski on May 25, 2011, 09:51:30 PM
Finally... an unknown from the front yard:


Good foliage, Lori.... and the flower seems promising too.
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« Reply #38 on: May 28, 2011, 01:41:46 AM »
More colourful foliage, Maggi, on a named cultivar whose name I have, unfortunately, lost:


P. mlokosewitschii will have 5 flowers this year!


The unusual pointy buds of P. veitchii (unusual to me at any rate  Smiley):
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« Reply #39 on: May 28, 2011, 02:35:34 AM »
Lori, your first peony reminds me of one that my grandma had in her garden!
Molly-the-witch looks very healthy.

Maybe my unknown peony is a veitchii?

The P rockii-type has about 40 buds but not all open simultaneously. The flowers last for less than a week even in this cool weather we have now - but the rain crush the huge flowers.

       


Left picture shows two plants from the same seedbatch, they are a little different but clearly of the same parentage. The right picture shows a plant I rescued from an old neglected garden in Oslo many years ago.

       
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« Reply #40 on: May 28, 2011, 10:07:15 PM »
This was labelled as Paeonia japonica... do you think it is?  If so, it should have white flowers.  I'm not sure the leaves are correct.

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« Reply #41 on: May 28, 2011, 10:56:50 PM »
Doesn't look quite right to me, but when it flowers, we should know better.  Here's a shot of my P. japonica from 2010.

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« Reply #42 on: May 30, 2011, 10:20:56 PM »
The same unknown from the front yard (a hitchhiker with a daylily order, some years ago)... looking rather like the subject of a Redouté painting...


Paeonia anomala, starting to bloom... soon to be followed by a few others!
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« Reply #43 on: May 31, 2011, 02:52:05 PM »
The unknown one is very nice, Lori! You have to take care of it! BTW I thought Redouté painted roses? Wink
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« Reply #44 on: May 31, 2011, 10:11:54 PM »
Well, he painted lots of roses but not strictly roses...
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=redoute%20paintings&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=43066l44246l0l10l9l0l5l5l0l214l597l1.2.1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1397&bih=964

I don't really think it needs any special care at all (none of them have got any to date) - herbaceous peonies seem to be pretty well indestructible, aren't they?
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