PEONY INFORMATION
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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...
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 officially registered.
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 height of another.
Hybridizing Peonies The First Step New cultivars of garden peonies are grown from seeds. At the turn of the twentieth century the procedure was to collect all the seeds you could find in your field, perhaps with preference given to seeds produced on...
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