Re: Peonies
- Subject: Re: Peonies
- From: L* R*
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:50:49 -0800 (PST)
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, William A. Grant wrote:
> I could write a book about my attempts to grow peonies on coastal California. The native one, yes. But all the other scrumptuous, delicious, gorgeous ones - forget it!
> Unless you are ready to try longer than I did. I even went to Oregon to a farm that had one they said would grow here. It did come up, and it did blossom - not very big. And then died.
>
Does anyone on the list in California grow some of the species peonies
from the Mediterranean basin. Hard to believe that such as P.broteri and
P.coriacea [both of these from low to moderate elevations in southern
Spain and Morocco] wouldn't do
well in most of the non-desert areas of California...
loren russell, corvallis, oregon
