TOW Paeonia
boutin (Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:55:34 PDT)
John, As I remember there is a pink-flowered tree peony in the Japanese
Garden at the Huntington.
Years ago Jacques Hahn a garden designer with a intimate display garden in
Sierra Madre in southern California grew, I believe, tree peonies in large
containers so they could be forced into dormancy in the fall by withdrawing
irrigation. That means having a back-up growing area out of "public view."
Fred Boutin
Tuolumne, CA
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Subject: [pbs] TOW Paeonia
Jim asked:
"Does anyone at the south end of the west coast grow
any of
the mild climate peonies, either the Mediterranean
species or P.
californica? Do these ever show up in plant sales,
or grown in
Botanical gardens or elsewhere?"
From here I can say that I have never seen any listed
for sale but I really miss all the local sales each
year as they happen when I am out of town or I simply
forget.
There is one plant that blooms in the Huntington's
Japanese garden. I don't really remember the color, I
want to say it was a pink herbaceous but I may be
wrong on that. It was blooming when the IBS had their
symposium there. Was anyone at that meeting that
remember seeing it? I thought I mentioned it to a few
people at the time.
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