Re: [SG] Peony

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• To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
• Subject: Re: [SG] Peony
• From: S* F* <s*@MINDSPRING.COM>
• Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 19:31:34 -0400
• References: <3.0.1.32.19980528192707.006d03f0@pop.mindspring.com>

At 09:37 PM 5/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Sandy, Field's sent you the wrong peony. I checked Henry Mitchell (THE
>ESSENTIAL EARTHMAN) and the double red peonies he mentions are Kansas,
>Philippe Rivoire, Karl Rosenfeld (or Rosenfield), and Richard Kervel or
>something like that (I can't read my notes now). Philippe R. should NOT be
>pale pink. Mitchell doesn't elaborate on the various shades of red these
>four are so I don't know which is the Grandmother's Peony you remember.
>

They sent me the wrong peony more than once! Before the first had
bloomed I sent for 2 more; they eventually bloomed pink too. None bloomed
for the first 3 or 4 years. Then, planted in locations miles apart, they
each produced many tiny buds that did not mature into blossoms. After that
they still had the many tiny buds of which a very few grew into bloom.
I had several other peonies that bloomed normally, so I don't think it was
the environment that caused that.
I now have a clear bright red called "Red Charm" from a peony farm in Mo.
It's a beautiful flower, but not as dark as the heirloom one. It's holding
its own here in the Atl area, where everything is shade.

The Grandmother's peonies were not fernleaf, but as I recall may have been
a slightly smaller plant than the pinks and whites. I'll have to look for
"Philippe" somewhere else, I don't want to try Henry Field's again. (It
takes too many years to find out what color they are!)
Thanks for your help...



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Sandy Fry

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