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Peony Nurseries:
  • A&D Peonies has been growing and selling peonies since the early '70s, having started with the Goldsmith peony collection, most of which was originated by Professor A. P. Saunders of Clinton, NY some 50 years ago. He was America's first major hybridizer of peonies

  • Adelman Peony Gardens We grow herbaceous peonies, and are located near Salem, Oregon, in the beautiful Willamette Valley. We have more than 200 varieties and add more each year

  • AdonisGarden buy peonies online

  • Beiking Yellow peony export Company The Beiking Yellow peony export Company is composed by Peony planter of Heze city(Shandong province)and Beijing peony garden.We are the largest companies specializing in the production and sales of tree and herbaceous peony in China

  • Berkeley Horticultural Nursery: The Moutan Peony (Tree Peony)

  • Boonebrier Farm : We are a small "growing-into-retirement" business specializing in a variety of herbaceous PEONIES

  • Bourdillon,M: Pivoines, Iris, Hemerocallis, Pavots

  • Brother`s Herbs & Peonies We have collected plants from a wide geographical area including North America, Asia, Europe, and New Zealand. We offer variety, as well as "Quality with Style!"

  • Caprice Farm Nursery Charlie & Cyndi and Caprice Farm Nursery Peonies

  • cnpeonyflowers.com Beijing Green Peony

  • Chen Yi Nursery Rare plants and bulbs from China

  • China Peony Garden: Nanjing (China) :Our peony garden was established in the fall of 1992. There are over 300 varieties of tree peonies and herbaceous peonies in the garden

  • Claire Austin: We grow many peonies and tree peonies

  • Country Flower Garden We are a small family business located near the foothills of the Blueridge Mountains in Virginia

  • Craigmore Peonies Fiona and Peter established the Craigmore Peony Partnership 15 years ago, based upon Fiona's enthusiasm and expertise and knowledge of the flower

  • Cricket Hill Garden Join Kasha and David Furman as they introduce you to the art, history, care and cultivation of Chinese tree peonies

  • DutchBulbs.com: Peonies

  • Eastgrove Cottage Garden Nursery is a beautiful English Country Garden located in Worcestershire, United Kingdom

  • Flores de la Patagonia: Peonías Nuestra producción de Peonías comienza en la región entre mediados de Diciembre para prolongarse hasta fines de Enero

  • Full Bloom Farm is listed in the sources sections of the American Peony Society and the Heartland Peony Society and we are members of the APS and the Northwest Peony Society

  • Gansu Peony Website China: Lanzhou Peony Horticulture Development Company

  • Gaoxin Seed Research Institute Our Institute is a major scientfic research institution on peony in china ,posseessing an area of 200 mu for the breeding base of peony fine strains,greenhouse and many scientific research personnels.Yearly the institute can provide150000 plants of tree and herbaceous peonies ,200000 blossoms of forced peonies in winter ,300000 stems of herbaceous peony cut flower with domestic and overseas markets

  • Garden Esmeraldo: Peonie Anche noi abbiamo subito il fascino di queste piante meravigliose ed abbiamo concentrato il nostro interesse sulle specie botaniche erbacee, su alcuni cultivar di peonia lactiflora e sui rari ibridi intersezionali.

  • Gilbert H. Wild & Son: Peonies

  • Golden Port International The Best Selection, Quality, and Value in the US

  • Heze East Flowers Co., Ltd. Now, we are growing the best selection of Chinese tree peonies

  • Heze Guohua Peony Research Institute is a private institute founded by Mr. Zhao Xiao Zhi, who have devoted his 40 years to Peony

  • Hollingsworth Nursery we want to assure you that our divisions are prepared to meet the industry Number One grade standard—three to five “eyes” (the common name for matured shoot buds).  More than that, we intend to send out plants which have enough food storage root volume per “eye” to support first year shoot growth all the way to a flower

  • HomesteadFarms: peonies

  • I Vivai delle Commande STORIA E COLTIVAZIONE DELLE PEONIE sono nati ufficialmente nel 1994 ma la nostra passione per le peonie è di alcuni anni anteriore, il primo nucleo di peonie americane arbustive ed erbacee è stato importato dagli Stati Uniti nel 1980

  • Kelways Nursery web site. Based at Langport in Somerset, England we are the U.K.'s largest growers of peony, tree peony and iris

  • La Pépinière de la Thyle Si l’on retrouve de nos jours, des pivoines herbacées dans tous les jardins, sa cousine, la pivoine arbustive est quand à elle beaucoup moins connue
    Elle n’en offre pour autant pas moins de qualités en produisant nombres de fleurs qui s’épanouissent selon les variétés de la mi-avril à la fin mai. De plus, leurs feuillages lobés et découpés, très précoce, attire l’œil dès le début du mois de mars.
    D’origine chinoise, elles sont apparues dans nos contrées au 18 ème siècle. Elles n’ont alors cessé d’être croisées pour offrir actuellement un panel de plusieurs centaine, de variétés

  • La Pivoinerie D'Aoust Des pivoines et seulement des pivoinesView the 2002 Peony Catalogue

  • Les Pivoines: Horti Boutique

  • Luoyang: Flowers & Trees: Luoyang, the most famous ancient capital of China, is the biggest peony cultivation center in China as well as the earliest peony growth center in the world

  • Michigan Bulb Company: Peonies

  • Miely Treten Sie ein, in die edle Welt der Päonien . . .

  • Mount Macedon Peonies is located at Michael and Louise Quinn's farm on the slopes of Mount Macedon. We are within an hours drive of Melbourne and only 30 minutes from the Melbourne International Airport

  • Nature's Promise website! Come in and see our peonies

  • New Peony Farm Our mission:To grow and sell the finest herbaceous peonies in America

  • NichollsGardens: Peonies Several of our selections have won American Peony Society Gold Medals (GM)

  • Ourpeony.com (China) In China, tree peonies (Moudan or Mudan) has been cultivated for over 1500 years. In Heze, Shandong Province, our forefathers have grown tree peonies and herbaceous peonies since 500 years ago. Now, we are growing the best selection of Chinese tree peonies

  • Pacific Peonies We continue to strive to bring you the finest selection of peony plants, perennials and cut peonies. There are well over 200 varieties for your enjoyment including some intersectionals (a rare cross between tree and bush peonies)

  • Pacific Rim: Species Peonies

  • Päonien sind herrliche Blumen, die man mit gutem Gewissen zu den schönsten Blumen der Welt zählen kann, die die herrlichsten Blütenfarben mit einer komplexen Blütenstruktur verbinden

  • Paradise Garden Designer Peonies The best catalog in the world featuring an incredible selection of top performing plants and exclusive collections

  • Peoniabv On the moment there are about 160 varieties on the nursery. The goal is to search for new species every year

  • PeonyCN: Gaoxin Seed Research Institute . Here we have the beautiful peony flowers, superior quality with lowest price peony plants,so enjoy it!

  • Peonies.net Just as fads in clothing come full circle, so has the attractiveness of the peony come to the attention of the gardener. We all remember our grandmothers growing peonies in their gardens. Peonies are becoming, once again, THE plants.

  • Peoniesfamily.com We have a base for propagating young peony, at the same time our area is the biggest cultivate peonies plants base in the world, so the plants is great quantities and good quality with favorable price

  • Peony Flower the Luoyang Peony

  • PeonyGarden.com the ultimate Peony superstore..900 varieties of peonies...

  • Peony HomePage Japanese

  • PeonyLand. ....the largest Chinese tree peony and herbaceous peony nursery outside China with over 60,000 tree peonies in 600 varieties and 10,000 herbaceous peonies in 200 varieties.

  • Peony Meadows Peony varieties were selected for flower quality as well as plant strength and bush appearance.Peony Meadows is located in Stony Point, Virginia

  • Peonynursery.com  is a family owned nursery located near the Lithuanian city of Panevezys

  • Peony Nursery "Paionia" "Specialist in Peony-cutflowers".It all began with Simon Scholten, who started a company growing vegetables in 1875....Go to the Netherlands,, when you arrive at airport Schiphol-Amsterdam drive 50-60 km with your car from Amsterdam through the province of "Noord-Holland".....  you will go past the following places on the road to our nursery

  • Peony PassionsWe are a mail order nursery, based in Ireland that specialises in Chinese Tree Peonies

  • Peony Patch: We are a family owned flower and vegetable farm located in Salina, Kansas USA specializing in bulk and wholesale orders of Fresh Cut Peonies and stock roots

  • Peony World We can provide various tree peonies and herbaceous peonies any time a year, cut flowers and potted flowers are all available

  • Pinerise Peonies are grown on a secluded farm established in 1888 by the Hansen family. A host of microclimates, rich soil, bountiful rains, and invigorating winds help nurture a superb, cut flower over an extended season — a long-stemmed, strongly coloured peony. . .

  • Pivoines Capano: spécialisée dans la production et la vente de pivoines intersectionnelles

 

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Gallery of Painting Peonies: Manet, Bazille, Fantin-Latour....

more paintings:

more books:

  • Ariga: "Excellent Flowers of Tree Peonies""1993, The 160 best tree peonies. published in japanese, available with a german booklet, translated by F. Sondermann Sendai, edited by Wolfgang Linnemann, Bonn. This brochure is probably the only actually available pictured documentation of japanese tree peonies, after the large 'Book of Peonies in Modern Japan' by Hashida is out of print and sold out" (www.paeon.de/0per.html)

  • Bibliography The following is a brief summary of the most important literature relating to peonies. Peony Society U.K

  • BookBag51: I am a peony lover. I like reading and collecting books on peony. In order to help peonyfriends out of China can enjoy peony books printed in China, I started this site

  • Book review - ROGERS Allan, 1995 Reviewed by: Prof. Dr. A. T. Szabó

  • Books on Peony: OurPeony.com: "The Tree Peony in Caozhou" This is a photo album of 233 pages with over 450 tree peony flowers shown in color. Photos are clear and leave the reader a sense of the vast array of these flowers' colors and forms. Text in Chinese with descriptions in English and Chinese. Flower names in Chinese, Pin Yan and Japanese. "Chinese Tree Peony "Edited by China Peony Association. The most comprehensive and authoritative book on Chinese tree peony ever printed, also the first major photo book on Chinese Tree Peonies to be translated into English. Color photos of over 400 cultivars. Accompanying each cultivar's photo is a description of flower shape, size, description of leaves and comments on growth habits.

  • Books on Peonies: Amazon

  • Books Heartland Peony Society Recommended Reading

  • Books: The Library of Botanical Garden of New York

  • Books: Selection Of Peony Publications . Quadriga.net

  • Books on Peonies: Goldenport.com

  • Books on Peonies: Paeon.de

  • Books on Peonies: Peony Society U.K.

  • Books on Peonies: Timber Press

  • Books on Peonies: Touchwood Books

  • Books on Peonies: Ulmer

  • China Pictorial Publishing House: "Luoyang Peonies"

  • Chinese Tree PeonyTen chapters include: Species and Distribution, Cultivar Groups and their Distribution, Brief History of Peony Cultivation, Varietal Classification, Ecological Habitats, Propagation and Cultivation, Peonies and Their Uses, Famous Peony Gardens, Morphology of Cultivars, Introduction and Development of Chinese Peonies in Other Countries

  • Collections of Heze Peony Photo MaterialOver 400 photos are clear,including over 300 photos of tree peony flowers of different varieties. Edited by Heze Tourism Bureau and Heze Photographer Association.

  • Cultivation Technic of Heze Peony by Mr. Zhao Xiao Zhi

  • Diseases of Peony: Pfleger, F.; Fetzer, J.; White-McDougall, W.(University of Minnesota)

  • Gold Medal List of Heze Peony On 1999 Kunming World Gardening Exposition, Heze Peony won 81 prizes among total 111 peony prizes

  • Good, Walter : "Schweizer Staudengaerten"

  • Hashida, Ryoshi : "A Book of Tree and Herbaceous Peonies in Modern Japan"

  • Haworth-Booth, Michael : "The Moutan or Tree Peony"

  • Krupke, Hermann, "Passion för pioner" (Swedish) ISBN 91-36-03318-9

  • I Libri sulle Peonie: I Vivai delle Commande

  • Liang Zu Hong : "Luoyang Peony"

  • Päoniengarten: Literatur

  • Stern, W. T. and Davis, P. H.: "Peonies of Greece"ISBN 0.565.00975.3

  • The Peony in CaozhouThis is the best book of photos of Chinese tree peonies ever printed. A photo album of 233 pages with over 450 flowers shown in color

  • Tavallini, Susanna:  "Peonie

  • Valder,Peter: "The Garden Plants of China"

  • Westrich, Josh & Sir Smithers, Peter: "Strauchpaeonien"

  • Wister, John Caspar: "The Peonies"

  • Xin, Jinguang : "Peony in Luoyang"

  • Xiao, Baiging : "The Tree Peony in Caozhou"

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Miscellaneous:

La pivoine (Paeonia), appartient à la famille des Renonculacées . Certains botanistes les classent dans une famille à part, les Paeoniacées, ne comprenant que le seul genre Paeonia:

Pivoine arbustive, originaires de Chine, cultivées aussi au Japon. Quatre espèces diffèrentes:

  • Suffruticosa: originaire de Chine

  • Lutea, originaire de Chine et dont le croisement avec les Paeonia Suffruticosa a donné la plupart des variétés à coloris jaune ou orangé (Hybrides Lemoine)

  • Delavayi, tojours originaire de Chine

  • Potanini: on ne connait pas d'hybrides de cette espèce

   Pivoines herbacées: Peonia Lactiflora

Classification of the Genus PEONY in SECTIONS and CLASSES : Quadriga.net

 

First some definitions ...

Herbaceous peony: The type of peony we are perhaps most familiar with. The foliage of these peonies dies back to the ground each winter. In spring new shoots emerge from the soil.

Tree peony: Not exactly trees, but more like small shrubs, these peonies lose their leaves each fall, but the woody stems remain intact over the winter. New leaves and flowers emerge from the stems each spring.

Intersectional or Itoh peony: A peony produced by man when the pollen of a tree peony is used to fertilize a herbaceous peony (or vice versa) i.e. a herbaceous tree peony cross. The flowers and foliage are similar to those of tree peonies but they have the growth habit of herbaceous peonies in that they die back to the ground each winter. Unlike true herbaceous peonies however they do tend to keep a few buds on the lower portions of the stem over the winter.

La Pivoinerie D'Aoust Peony Nursery

          

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