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The Peony Group Officers of the Peony Group Chairperson Kath Carey The Peony Group St Annes Windmill Lane of the Hardy Plant Society Appleton Warrington LU7 9NL e-mail [email protected] Group Secretary Gail Harland Newsletter Autumn 2010 The Owl House Coddenham Green Suffolk IP6 9UN e-mail [email protected] Treasurer John Richey 55 Franklin Court Brook Road Wormley, Godalming Surrey GU8 5US e-mail [email protected] Newsletter editor John Hudson Deene Cottage Back Lane, East Langton Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7TB e-mail [email protected] Desktop publishing and newsletter distribution is by Irene Tibbenham, The Barn, Clay Street, Thornham Magna, Suffolk, IP23 8HE e-mail: marktibben- [email protected] Seed distribution is by Judy Templar, 117 Wood Road, King's Cliffe, Northants. PE8 6XR. Other Committee Members are Peter Johnson (membership secretary). Membership of the Peony Group is available to all members of the Hardy Plant Society. If you are interested in joining, please contact the Secretary at the above address The opinions expressed by the authors are their personal views, and are not necessarily en- dorsed by the HPS Peony Group. The editors reserve the right to edit all contributions as necessary. Copyright of all contributions remains with their authors. 16 Editorial John Hudson Seed List 2010 There is a definite emphasis on species peonies in this issue HERBACEOUS creamy, pink) of the Newsletter. This is not new policy, but simply re- (P. daurica ssp. mlokosewitschii) flects the articles that were submitted, plus the appearance ex P. anomala ex P. mlokosewitschii (as above, yellow) of Hong's monograph on wild species. Of course, many of ex P. anomala (Finnish form, taller, ( P. daurica ssp. mlokosewitschii) the species are fine garden plants that would be more wide- red stems) ex P. mlokosewitschsii (yellow) (P. ly grown were they more widely available. A solution to ex P. biebersteiniana (P. tenuifolia) daurica ssp. mlokosewitschsii) this problem is to grow them from seed, an interesting and cheap, if lengthy, ex P. cambessedesii ex P. obovata alba endeavour. I commend our own seed list in this issue. It is quite extensive, ex P. x Chamaeleon (creamy with but further donations of unusual species would be welcome. Please note the ex P. officinalis pink veining) caution about open pollination. Bees love our promiscuous peonies. If ex P. officinalis (from Archibald seed) ex P. x Chamaeleon (pink) anybody hankers for more on lactiflora or suffruticosa cultivars, the solution ex P. officinalis ssp. villosa is to write something yourself, or persuade your friends to do so. There are ex P. ‘Judy’s White Peony’ ex P. peregrina several lactiflora seeds in the list too. It would be interesting to know, in a ex P. japonica (P. obovata) ex P. tenuifolia few years time, which, if any, yielded worth-while plants. ex P. kavachensis (P. daurica ssp. coriifo- ex P. veitchii (P. anomala ssp. veitchii) lia) ex P. veitchii ‘Alba’ (P. anomala ssp. Peony Group Website ex P. lactiflora ‘Antwerpen’ veitchii) ex P. lactiflora ‘Bowl of Beauty’ A major advance in our communicating with one another and, we hope, ex P. veitchii var. woodwardii (P. anoma- ex P. lactiflora ‘Lord Kitchener’ increasing our membership, is the new web page (www.hardy-plant.org.uk; la ssp. veitchii) follow links to specialist groups and peonies). This has been compiled by ex P. lactiflora ‘Lotus Queen’ Irene Tibbenham and installed on the HPS web pages by John Dyson. ex P. lactiflora ‘Miss America’ SHRUBBY There are also enticing pictures of peonies associated with the website. It is ex P. lactiflora ‘Prairie Moon’ (hybrid now possible to post articles too long or too specialized for the newsletter peony, ‘Archangel’ x ’Laura Mag- Subsection Delavayi on the website; the first example is mentioned below. nuson’) ex P. delavayi ex P. lactiflora ‘Red Rover’ ex P. ludlowii ex P. lactiflora single magenta, ex Chairman’s Report Kelways plant Kath Carey Subsection Vaginatae ex P. lactiflora ‘Watteau’ ex Gansu Group Summer has sprinted ex P. lactiflora ‘White Wings’ Purple (McLewin code 7.1.9) past. Warm and dry ex P. mascula Lilac (McLewin) to start and then ex P .mascula ssp. arietina (P. arietina) P. ‘rockii’ (white with blotch, inc. damp but for us in Cheshire no real drench- ex P. mascula ssp hellenica ‘Joseph Rock’) ing rain. The ground is still dust dry. The ex P. mascula ssp. russoi ex P. jishanensis early summer sun brought the peonies into ex P. mascula ssp. triternata (P. daurica ex P. suffruticosa (pink) flower in one concentrated ten-day period ssp. daurica) ex P. ostii (white flowers, ‘Feng Dan apart from my Sword Dance. Sword Dance ex P. mlokosewitschii (McLewin, wild Bei’?) Narcissus poeticus again flowered for several weeks right into pop. Lagodekhi, E Georgia, in John’s garden July. 2 15 Species peonies in John Hudson’s Leicestershire garden at the 2010 AGM delay. I would suggest that you send the seed to me, even after publication of Paeonia mlokosewitschii the newsletter. In this case it would be worthwhile making enquiries when or- dering your seed about species not listed. Can I remind you that the seeds on offer are from plants growing in the open garden and may not be true to the seed parent. They should be labelled ‘ex seed parent’. This year I have a dilemma following the publication of ‘Peonies of the World’ by Hong De-Yuan who has proposed many name changes and ‘lumping’ of spe- Paeonia delavayi cies. I am hedging my bets by listing the old names but giving Hong’s names of the herbaceous species in brackets where they differ. As you are aware peony Our AGM in May was held at seeds are large and most requests require a large letter stamp. Last year we bare- the home of John Hudson, near ly covered our costs so this year I am asking UK Members to send a large letter Market Harborough. My stamp with their requests. thanks go to him and Judy The seeds cost 50p per packet. UK members should make cheques out to ‘The Templar for not only providing HPS Peony Group’; overseas Members should add the amount to their renewal the venue but also royally feed- payment at the start of next year. Some donations are very small so perhaps you ing nearly 20 people. His gar- should send a ‘limit cheque’, omitting the amount but writing at the bottom of den was a picture in early May the cheque ‘not to exceed £x’, ‘x’ being the maximum amount your request with several species in flower would cost. I can then complete the cheque for the cost of the seeds supplied. and with the promise of more to come. Afterwards, we drove Please write with a list of your requests, enclosing a self-addressed sticky label and large letter stamp to Judy Templar, 117 Wood Road, King’s Cliffe, Peter- borough, PE8 6XR. Orders should be with me by 7th December 2010. Treasurer’s Report John Richey The best of our season is closing down on us, and the dark- er weather brings less bright news. Whereas our bank balance remains at a healthy £870, the amount is down 20% from last year and is being eroded by rising costs of printing and postage. Your editors have managed to fix the print- ing costs for two issues, but postage will inevitably rise, with the result that we have arrived at the necessity of a rise in our subscriptions to partly cover actual costs. The new subscription rates will be £4.50 for UK subscribers, with overseas sub- Paeonia tenuifolia scribers paying £6.00 which mostly covers the outflow. The year-end payment is fast approaching so we hope you will be able to accommodate these increases in Paeonia kavachensis your new budgets. 14 3 the short distance to 5. Mohab Zaki wrote concerning P. witt- Leicester and the Univer- manniana. He had bought two plants. sity Botanic Gardens. The first was slow to flower, the second The gardens are beauti- quicker. The second was a pink form fully kept and they have many species peonies happily self-seeding around. The Botanic P. wittmanniana Gardens are free and definitely worth a visit if that he identifies as its hybrid with P. anyone is in the area. lactiflora, ‘Mai Fleuri’. The second one flowered well this year; it is white and in At the AGM we were given a break down of the costs of producing the Hong's terms either P. daurica ssp. witt- Newsletter. Postage is a very significant element especially for the overseas manniana or ssp. tomentosa; its carpels members with the postage well exceeding the cost of producing the actual P. Mai Fleuri look tomentose in the photograph, Newsletter. We reluctantly made the decision that the subscription for the though that does not necessarily settle next year would be £6.00 for overseas and £4.50 for the UK. We shall look the matter. He also enclosed two photos of possible hybrids, one with attractive pale into sending copy overseas electronically to help reduce costs. The seed pink flowers and the other near-white with brownish stain- exchange is valued and will continue but costs will also be monitored. P. hybrid with blotch ing near the As for my seed sowing ventures over the last cou- base of the petals. Accord- pled of years, only one pot of the November 2008 ing to Hong, seeds (P. veitchii) came through in early April. this latter char- This is much later than usual but with a good acter is known success rate (nine out of ten).
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