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Here comes another one, just like the other one...
My second Adelman package arrived today, and Lorelei is now quietly sleeping in its bed...
Since Lorelei is a rare peony and cost twice as much as Minnie Shaylor, I honestly wasn't sure what kind of division I'd get. I know there are some peonies that are expensive because their eyes/roots grow in a tangled manner that makes it hard to get a nice division, or because they're slow to propagate, so I wondered if Lorelei would be smaller than Minnie Shaylor. After all, 3-5 eyes is the industry standard, and there are some places that do even smaller divisions than that(I'm still fuming over the 1 eye division White Flower Farm gave me of Coral Charm years back...I haven't seen a single flower on that thing), but Lorelei had six eyes and three storage roots, just like Minnie Shaylor. The eyes themselves were actually bigger.
I'm dying to see what Lorelei looks like in bloom. I hope it won't be too long! Almost all the corals are some white peony(usually Minnie Shaylor)crossed with p. peregrina, but Lorelei is a medium pink bomb-shaped peony called Belleville crossed with a red peony called Good Cheer. I don't think Good Cheer is a lactiflora...I'm trying to look it up but my browser keeps crashing. ^^;;;
EDIT: It looks like Good Cheer is p.officinalis(aka "Memorial Day Peony") crossed with p.peregrina. So Lorelei is 1/3 p.peregrina, as opposed to 1/2 like the other corals. I think p.officinalis is where they got the weird red hue found in Buckeye Belle?
That rare Saunders hybrid peony Lavender is fascinating. Everybody says it's hard to grow and has a smaller range of conditions it can be grown in, but nobody will say what those conditions are. ^^;;; Its wild peony parent is a native of northern Morocco, and it grows in cedar forests...so maybe part to full shade and acid soil only?
Since Lorelei is a rare peony and cost twice as much as Minnie Shaylor, I honestly wasn't sure what kind of division I'd get. I know there are some peonies that are expensive because their eyes/roots grow in a tangled manner that makes it hard to get a nice division, or because they're slow to propagate, so I wondered if Lorelei would be smaller than Minnie Shaylor. After all, 3-5 eyes is the industry standard, and there are some places that do even smaller divisions than that(I'm still fuming over the 1 eye division White Flower Farm gave me of Coral Charm years back...I haven't seen a single flower on that thing), but Lorelei had six eyes and three storage roots, just like Minnie Shaylor. The eyes themselves were actually bigger.
I'm dying to see what Lorelei looks like in bloom. I hope it won't be too long! Almost all the corals are some white peony(usually Minnie Shaylor)crossed with p. peregrina, but Lorelei is a medium pink bomb-shaped peony called Belleville crossed with a red peony called Good Cheer. I don't think Good Cheer is a lactiflora...I'm trying to look it up but my browser keeps crashing. ^^;;;
EDIT: It looks like Good Cheer is p.officinalis(aka "Memorial Day Peony") crossed with p.peregrina. So Lorelei is 1/3 p.peregrina, as opposed to 1/2 like the other corals. I think p.officinalis is where they got the weird red hue found in Buckeye Belle?
That rare Saunders hybrid peony Lavender is fascinating. Everybody says it's hard to grow and has a smaller range of conditions it can be grown in, but nobody will say what those conditions are. ^^;;; Its wild peony parent is a native of northern Morocco, and it grows in cedar forests...so maybe part to full shade and acid soil only?