peony #1
 

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This is my very first home-grown peony flower. The seed was taken from a
'Duchesse de Nemours' in 2006. It sprouted in 2008. I got about 120
plants of which less then 30 survived the first repotting. The seedlings
are very fragile and break at the slightest touch. In 2010 I planted
them outside. 15 are left. 2 had flowers already, one will have (maybe).
This was the first flower. 2 flowers of the other plant are now open and
look very much the same.

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This is a montage of photos I made last year as they were planted. The
plant at the very right is flowering now. The fourth from the right has
a small bud (Maybe a filled variety that won't evolve fully already this
year). And if you imagined another row of 5 peonies below, the actual
pic would be taken also of the very right plant of those.

G Willi