Re: early arrivals - tree peonies

Klehm's Song Sparrow says that herbaceous peonies bloom in Wisconsin's Zone
5a from mid May through Mid June and in other zones, within a few weeks of
this time period.  Thus, I would deduce that they could have as much as a 5
week bllom span from early to mid to late-blooming varieties.

They go on to say that Tree Peonies bloom before herbaceous peonies.  In the
midwest, they begin to bloom in mid-May.  However, they also classify their
various tree peonies as early, mid, and late bloomers, but without an
explanation of how many weeks that might span.

It's possible that Ceres has late-blooming tree peonies and early-blooming
herbaceous peonies, while Auralie has early-blooming tree peony varieties
and late-blooming herbaceous ones. Except that......they list Gay Paree as a
mid-season bloomer and I found a listing elsewhere that Festiva Maxima is an
early bloomer.

And, of course, zone, location, exposure, etc, may play into it.
Interesting to note the differences.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] early arrivals - tree peonies


> In a message dated 02/10/2004 10:26:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
>
> > Before which herbaceous ones?  Herbaceous peonies, like daylilies bloom
at
> > different times.  My Coral N' Gold is an early variety, while my old
> > fashioned garden peonies are lates.
> >
>
> I have about 20 garden peonies - some named and some not, but they all
bloom
> in about a two-week period in early June.  They range from the
old-fashioned
> 'Festiva Maxima' to the fairly recent 'Gai Paree' plus ten I bought from
Park's
> as a special for $12.00 when we moved here 33 years ago - all unnamed but
> some pretty nice ones.
> Auralie - Z5
>
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