Perfecting Peonies by Blaine Marchand The peony gardens at the Central Experimental Farm hold one of the largest Canadian collections of peonies created by Arthur Percy (A.P.) Saunders. Born in London, Ontario, in 1869, both his father, William, and his mother, Sarah...
Planting / Care / Drying / Cutting / Storing Planting of Herbaceous and Intersectional Hybrids Seasonal Care for Herbaceous and Intersectional Hybrids Tree Peonies Drying Peonies Hybridizing your Own Peonies Cutting and Storing Peony Flowers for Later Use There are...
Creating New Peonies Arthur Percy (A.P.) Saunders, over his long career as a peony hybridizer, had over 17,224 seedlings (hybrids, tree peonies and species peonies) in his gardens. He propagated and named only 271 of them. Interestingly, only 11 of these were...
Hybridizing Peonies by Margaret Sequeira Hybridizing is as simple as playing bee. Yes, I said bee. Hybridizing is full of wonder, leaving us full of delighted anticipation. Choose the plants which characteristics you most admire. eg: the size of bloom from one and the...
Flower Forms in Peonies by Reiner Jakubowksi There are five basic flower forms generally acknowledged to occur in herbaceous peonies. Unfortunately, the demarcation where one form leaves off, and another begins, is not always distinct, nor sharply defined. Some...
Controlled Germination Of Peony Seeds Indoors by Don Hollingsworth American Peony Society Bulletin No. 214. June, 1975. (pp 27-30). A peony seed germinates in response to the same sequence of environmental conditions whether it is out of doors where nature has full...
