This is encouraging. I've only ever managed to grow the herbaceous peonies in my Belgian garden but have inherited a luscious perfumed pink tree peony in this new garden. I'm planning to save and sow seeds from a couple of the flowers and dead head the rest.
It's a luscious clear pink with a deeper red centre so I shall have to keep my eye out for yellow ones.
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WillDB, you mentioned the orange /red colours last year. I shall have seed from a red with rather small flowers and a blotchy orange, (the offspring of the red), though you could end up with yellow flowers from either of them.
I have a seedling from one of Landgirl's paeonies as well, though not a tree paeony.
Cheers Nut. I don't really have room for tree peonies in my new garden (well I might be able to accommodate one of these seedlings) - but I appreciate the offer.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
I like peony foliage so the short flowering season doesn't bother me overly. (Plus if they flowered for half the year I bet we wouldn't drool over them so much!) I'll check out the Itoh varieties though, thanks.
The original question was for a client's garden and unfortunately the project didn't go ahead.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
I have the deep red form. It grows to about five foot, but I have never seen it set seed. It travelled under a path and now has spread into a shady border. The flowers do not last long, but I like the leaf shape .
Really excited to see successfully propagated seedlings from seed. Can I ask what compost/conditions you used/gave them? I've just got some seed from the rhs seed scheme and don't want to mess it up!
Just sow one per 7cm pot of MPC with some added soil or grit. Leave in a coldframe until they germinate. They can take a long time to germinate, so don't throw away after the first year. You can speed it up by putting into the fridge for four weeks, then out for three weeks, then back in the fridge for four weeks.
I have I have just found this post and, hopefully, you can help. I have several carefully tended seedlings from my yellow peony tree in 9 inch pots and friends waiting for me to pass them on. When can they be planted out in their gardens and how long will they need to wait before they become a small bush?
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They're romping away aren't they? I think I can even see a second leaf emerging on one of them! ;P
This is encouraging. I've only ever managed to grow the herbaceous peonies in my Belgian garden but have inherited a luscious perfumed pink tree peony in this new garden. I'm planning to save and sow seeds from a couple of the flowers and dead head the rest.
It's a luscious clear pink with a deeper red centre so I shall have to keep my eye out for yellow ones.
WillDB, you mentioned the orange /red colours last year. I shall have seed from a red with rather small flowers and a blotchy orange, (the offspring of the red), though you could end up with yellow flowers from either of them.
I have a seedling from one of Landgirl's paeonies as well, though not a tree paeony.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Cheers Nut. I don't really have room for tree peonies in my new garden (well I might be able to accommodate one of these seedlings) - but I appreciate the offer.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I like peony foliage so the short flowering season doesn't bother me overly. (Plus if they flowered for half the year I bet we wouldn't drool over them so much!) I'll check out the Itoh varieties though, thanks.
The original question was for a client's garden and unfortunately the project didn't go ahead.
I have the deep red form. It grows to about five foot, but I have never seen it set seed. It travelled under a path and now has spread into a shady border. The flowers do not last long, but I like the leaf shape .