[pbs] Peonies

Mary Sue Ittner msittner at mcn.org
Fri Jun 2 22:43:57 EDT 2006


Dear Angela,

Jim Waddick led us in a fascinating discussion on peonies when we were 
doing the topic of the week.

Look under Paeonia here:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/pbs/2004-July/subject.html

And his introductions:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/pbs/2004-July/018866.html
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/pbs/2004-July/018873.html

In these introductions he wrote about ones for warm climates like 
California but the same should be true for Western Australia. On a trip to 
Australia a number of years ago I saw some wonderful ones blooming in 
Adelaide in a garden. They were Mediterranean species grown from seed and 
early bloomers so they would bloom before it got really hot and the garden 
took a rest for the summer.

Hans donated seed to the BX and sent some to me and I picked some of the 
species Jim recommended to try. They didn't come up the first year, but 
this second year I have seedlings in all of the pots but one so I'm hoping 
one day to have some in my garden. Species selection I believe is the key.

Mary Sue



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