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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: Palustris on May 13, 2006, 20:26:02

Title: Tree Peony
Post by: Palustris on May 13, 2006, 20:26:02
This has an unwrtiable Japanese name.
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Post by: saddad on May 13, 2006, 20:28:32
Hi Pals that is lovely!
;D
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Post by: lorna on May 13, 2006, 22:52:10
Eric. Beautiful :) :)
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Post by: Jill on May 14, 2006, 00:46:38
Lovely, just lovely, P.  I have the utmost admiration for anyone who can get a tree peony to flower - I can't!
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Post by: Deeds on May 14, 2006, 10:41:30
Eric that is glorious. I  was tempted by one of these last year (I really wanted P. rockii but wasn't prepared to take out a HEFTY bank loan to buy one)

Mine is in bud at the moment,and knowing my luck will flower when I am  away at Chelsea. ::)
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Post by: Palustris on May 14, 2006, 13:25:07
And here it is today, open in all its glory and scented!
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Post by: Deeds on May 15, 2006, 17:29:32
Eric that really is stunning, and I don't normally 'do pink' - if you can let me know the name of it, I might just have to go and chat up the gentleman on the Kelways stand again next week. ;D
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Post by: Palustris on May 15, 2006, 17:45:23
Sorry, went out in the rain and the label has totally gonned!
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Post by: tim on May 15, 2006, 18:05:12
Leaves our poor thing in the shade - but I'll mail it when it's out.
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Post by: Palustris on May 15, 2006, 22:09:59
One thing you do not get from the picture is the size, the flowers are at least 8 inches across, possibly more!
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Post by: Mrs Ava on May 15, 2006, 22:31:31
Gorgeous!  I regret leaving on behind in our last cottage.  >:(  If seed grown, how many years before flowering?
Title: Re: Tree Peony
Post by: Palustris on May 16, 2006, 09:17:22
Sadly none of these big flowered hybrid paeonies are seed grown. They are all grafted plants. In fact in my garden they do not even set seed, pods appear but they are empty. If they did then probably about 5 years from seed before full size and potential would be achieved to go by P. lutea and ludlowii times.
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Post by: tim on May 18, 2006, 11:12:58
Eric & jmc - SO lovely - but I said that I'd show our poor, common, original one when it surfaced. Look at the wind this morning!

SO??

PS Didn't realise 8", Eric.
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Post by: Palustris on May 18, 2006, 12:34:44
I like P. ludlowii. Not been to look and see if ours are flowering. Nice pictures though.
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Post by: Ceratonia on May 18, 2006, 12:56:32
Quote from: Palustris on May 18, 2006, 12:34:44
I like P. ludlowii. Not been to look and see if ours are flowering.

Can you grow the ludlowii from seed?
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Post by: dandelion on May 18, 2006, 12:59:22
Quote from: Ceratonia on May 18, 2006, 12:56:32
Quote from: Palustris on May 18, 2006, 12:34:44
I like P. ludlowii. Not been to look and see if ours are flowering.

Can you grow the ludlowii from seed?

I've grown it from seed. I still have a good  few years to wait until it flowers though!
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Post by: Palustris on May 18, 2006, 15:24:29
You don't really think we went out and bought either P ludlowii or P lutea did you?
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Post by: dandelion on May 18, 2006, 15:38:38
I've got P. rockii too, 4 years old. Can't wait to see the flowers...one day!
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Post by: tim on May 18, 2006, 15:50:22
Are they that non-U, Eric??

But thanks for identifying it.
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