Re: Peonies
- Subject: Re: Peonies
- From: J* S*
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 08:42:00 -0800 (PST)
I hope somebody else will jump in on this one.
Coincidently, I now remember that when I did my survey
some years ago, the commercial peony cut flower grower
was in Fremont (se SF Bay).
Comparatively speaking, although he was able to get
peonies to bloom, the flowers were smaller and in
lesser quantity than those of plants from the north.
And he got them to bloom without dumping ice cubes on
them. So, it can be done without the ice treatment.
I've heard about people doing this with fruit trees
that require chilling (e.g., cherries, some apples),
various flowering hardy bushes (e.g., lilacs), and
some northern perennials (e.g., trollius, trillium).
Aside from some gardeners "swearing" by this practice,
I've seen no subtantiative documentation of this (no
real studies that prove it to work). I have seen
studies, however, that prove the opposite (it does NOT
work).
I will be the naysayer here so that somebody else can
jump in and state the philosophy of the opposite. I'm
actually hoping that someone will go beyond the
philosophical and state some documentation.
Joe Seals
Santa Maria, California
--- Karl Hoover <karl@quack.kfu.com> wrote:
> This sounds like an excellent idea. I'll have to try
> some herbaceous peonies, too.
> In Sunnyvale, (south edge of the S.F. Bay) I grow
> tree peonies which usually do
> quite well without the ice packs, though.
>
> Maybe this would be good for hyancinths, etc. too???
>
> KH
>
> > A friend in sea-level Fremont (southeast edge of
> San Francisco Bay)
> > swears by dumping a sack of ice once or twice a
> winter on top of his
> > herbaceous peony. I would have been extremely
> skeptical if I hadn't
> > seen the gorgeous result. It hardly freezes there,
> but they were about
> > 6 inches in diameter, and truly spendid.
> >
> > Judy Person
>
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