Adelman Peony Gardens Black Friday Sale
Sunday, November 25, 2018
2018 Adelman Peony Gardens Black Friday Sale 50% Off
Wow! Apparently I'm a little late to this party, but it looks like Adelman Peony Gardens is having a Black Friday Sale. I'm pretty sure I've never seen a sale like this before. They have 50% off all peonies left in stock: tree, intersectional, and herbaceous. There's not a lot left now, but still lots of good stuff. I'm not sure how many items there were to choose from originally (since it looks like the sale started 2 days ago), but it looks like they still have 28 varieties to choose from right now. Also not only do you get half off all roots, but you can also get free shipping if you place a $100 order or more, just use coupon code "freeship" at checkout. If you don't want to be out fighting crowds for deals this weekend, just stay in and order peonies instead. :D
Adelman Peony Gardens Black Friday Sale
Adelman Peony Gardens Black Friday Sale
2018 Southern Peony NOT Selling on Ebay
Southern Peony NOT Selling on Ebay
So this happened... Someone decided to use a photo of mine to sell something on Ebay (without my permission). I just wanted to make sure everyone knows this is not me selling peonies on Ebay. If I decided to sell peony roots on Ebay, you all would be the first to know! I have purchased one root from this seller in 2015, which is mentioned in my 2018 Ebay Peony Seller Reviews, but I am not yet certain of its identity. I sent the seller a nice note asking them to either give Southern Peony credit for the photo and add a disclaimer that we were not selling this peony or to take the photo down. If the seller does not respond, my next step will be to contact Ebay. Let's see how this one turns out...
Saturday, November 24, 2018
2018 Tree Peony Seeds from Luoyang, China
Tree Peony Seeds fron Luoyang, China
So there's one thing I didn't mention much about my trip to China this year, the peony seeds I purchased! I got a few here and a few there. Most of the seeds I purchased were just outside the garden gates during my 2018 Southern Peony Visits Luoyang National Peony Garden 洛阳国家牡丹园 (North). The seeds in the tiny plastic zip bags are the ones that came from the Luoyang National Peony Garden. You can see the table they had set up to sell the seeds below. I felt a bit skeptical as to whether these tree peony seeds actually came from the varieties pictured in the packets, but for 1 yuan (17 cents) for 10 packets, how can you go wrong? So I bought two different sets of them. My guess is they may be all the same variety, maybe even herbaceous or p. ostii. Who knows? I must say I am very curious, though to find out. Of course, it will probably take me five years or more to see any blooms from these.
Table of Tree Peony Seeds for Sale
Woman Selling Tree Peony Seeds
The photo above it the woman who sold me the seeds. She told my husband (in Chinese) that she and her husband have their own peony farm. I have no idea if it is true, but it sounds neat. They were also selling several varieties of potted tree (and herbaceous) peonies in full bloom as well. I wish I could have purchased a few of those tree peonies to bring back home! They also showed us how to sprout the tree peony seeds. They just used a plastic water bottle with and inch or inch and a half of water in it. I'm not sure if they put the seeds in the fridge to get them to sprout their roots first or just sprouted both the roots and the leaves in the bottle. That was certainly wild. I wish I could have found out more about how they did it. Maybe I will try a few of my seeds that way just to see what happens. I usually don't have much luck sprouting seeds that aren't in the dirt. I guess I just haven't tried or practiced it enough. I usually end up with mold of some sort.
Peony Seeds Sprouting in Water Bottle
Chinese Tree Peony Seeds
Here are a few more close up photos of the seeds I purchased (front and back of the packaging). You can click any of these photos to see a larger version. I don't know what any of them say. I guess I need to enlist my husband to help me translate them. I just can't decide if it is worth the time and effort to do so. The last time I had him take the time to meticulously translate each and every variety (and make a separate label for each), 2013 Ali Express Chinese Tree Peony Seeds, none of them sprouted!!! (I've placed more than one order for Chinese tree peony seeds in the past, and the other one from Ebay did sprout, 2013 Chinese Peony Seeds from Ebay , 2014 Chinese Tree Peony Seeds Starting to Sprout.) So who knows what these tree peony seeds will do, if they even sprout (I hope so!), or what color they will be, but I am definitely interested to find out!
Chinese Tree Peony Seeds
Chinese Tree Peony Seeds
Friday, November 23, 2018
2018 Intersectional Peony 'Luxuriant' on Ebay
When I saw the chance to pick up Intersectional Peony 'Luxuriant' on Ebay for a better price than I've yet to see on my 2018 Intersectional Peony Catalog Price Comparison List, I jumped. Also I have purchased from this seller, jackshouse2008, before. So I'm hoping this will be another positive experience as well. As you can see from my 2018 Ebay Peony Seller Reviews, I purchased Intersectional Peony 'Lemon Dream' from them in 2014, and it turned out to be correct. I featured some photos of that Peony 'Lemon Dream' in my 2018 How to Take Awesome Photos of Peonies (or Any Other Flower) article.
Intersectional Peony 'Luxuriant' on Ebay
I have never grown peony 'Luxuriant' before. So I am excited to try it. The coloring of it looks similar to intersectional peony 'Cora Louise', perhaps with a slight more tinge of pink. The petals appear to be more symmetrical and even, fewer of them, with perhaps more substance. You can only tell so much from a photo, but I am excited to take some photos of my own. Intersectional Peony 'Luxuriant' was hybridized by Roger Anderson and registered in 1986. I'm surprised it's not in wider distribution by now, since it looks like quite a nice intersectional peony flower.
I don't see another Peony 'Luxuriant' on Ebay from jackshouse2008 for sale right now, but I do see a couple other peonies. They are currently selling Peony 'Lemon Chiffon', which I highly recommend if you don't yet grow it. They are also selling Intersectional Peony 'Chief Black Hawk', which I do not yet grow. I'd be curious to grow this one since it is supposed to be quite dark in coloring, but the price is still quite expensive. So I have not yet tried it. They also have a Paeonia lutea 'delavayi' yellow peony for sale. I haven't had much luck with P. delavayis yet, but I would like to keep trying. Perhaps I will order this one in the future. They seem to grow so well in Austria, 2016 University of Vienna Botanical Garden Peonies, (almost as tall as me!), that I feel encouraged to try them again at some point...
Intersectional Peony 'Luxuriant' on Ebay
I have never grown peony 'Luxuriant' before. So I am excited to try it. The coloring of it looks similar to intersectional peony 'Cora Louise', perhaps with a slight more tinge of pink. The petals appear to be more symmetrical and even, fewer of them, with perhaps more substance. You can only tell so much from a photo, but I am excited to take some photos of my own. Intersectional Peony 'Luxuriant' was hybridized by Roger Anderson and registered in 1986. I'm surprised it's not in wider distribution by now, since it looks like quite a nice intersectional peony flower.
I don't see another Peony 'Luxuriant' on Ebay from jackshouse2008 for sale right now, but I do see a couple other peonies. They are currently selling Peony 'Lemon Chiffon', which I highly recommend if you don't yet grow it. They are also selling Intersectional Peony 'Chief Black Hawk', which I do not yet grow. I'd be curious to grow this one since it is supposed to be quite dark in coloring, but the price is still quite expensive. So I have not yet tried it. They also have a Paeonia lutea 'delavayi' yellow peony for sale. I haven't had much luck with P. delavayis yet, but I would like to keep trying. Perhaps I will order this one in the future. They seem to grow so well in Austria, 2016 University of Vienna Botanical Garden Peonies, (almost as tall as me!), that I feel encouraged to try them again at some point...
Thursday, November 22, 2018
2018 Ebay Peony Seller Reviews
Okay, so this article is about 3 years behind schedule, and while I have been procrastinating on posting it (due to wanting more information), I've finally decided that partial information is better than no information. I guess I will just update it later or create a new updated listing in the future as more information presents itself in my garden. I already see a need to reorganize the information by seller instead of by peony variety, but I will save that for a future article.
Mislabeled Intersectional Peony
(Sold to Me as Peony 'Lollipop')
In hopes that you may learn something from Ebay sellers I've purchased from over the years, I decided to create this reference for which sellers send the actual peony stated and which sellers do not - especially since an initial investment in a peony root can take years to show its true colors. Also if you have some direct experience with these same Ebay sellers or different sellers, please leave any concrete information you may have in the comment section below so that we may all benefit from our combined peony purchasing experiences.
Mislabeled Intersectional Peony
(Sold to Me as Peony 'Scarlet Heaven')
Mislabeled Intersectional Peony
(Sold to Me as Peony 'Lollipop')
In hopes that you may learn something from Ebay sellers I've purchased from over the years, I decided to create this reference for which sellers send the actual peony stated and which sellers do not - especially since an initial investment in a peony root can take years to show its true colors. Also if you have some direct experience with these same Ebay sellers or different sellers, please leave any concrete information you may have in the comment section below so that we may all benefit from our combined peony purchasing experiences.
Mislabeled Intersectional Peony
(Sold to Me as Peony 'Scarlet Heaven')
| ✓ | right | bloomed with the correct color and form |
| :( | died | died before blooming |
| X | wrong | bloomed with an incorrect color and/or form |
| Peony | Seller | Year | Review |
| Adolphe Rousseau | Ebay - greenerpastures101 | 2006 | |
| Bartzella (Intersectional) | Ebay - mcgper1 | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Benjamin Franklin | Ebay - willowcreekgardens | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Berry Garcia (Intersectional) | Ebay - bernard*sweety (Anna Snitkovskaia - Brooklyn, NY) | 2014 | X wrong - single hot pink root stock |
| Berry Garcia (Intersectional) | Ebay - irislady55 (Joni L. Renshaw, Joni's Dance-In-The-Wind Iris Garden - Tekamah, NE) | 2015 | |
| Black Lotus (Hatsugarasu) (Tree) | Ebay - atskor8 (Svet Vasyl - Moscow, PA) | 2014 | X wrong - wrong tree peony white |
| Bowl of Cream | Ebay - luckybusya | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Canary Brilliants (Intersectional) | Ebay - macao2000 | 2012 | :( died |
| Canary Brilliants (Intersectional) | Ebay - bernard*sweety (Anna Snitkovskaia - Brooklyn, NY) | 2014 | X wrong - single hot pink root stock |
| Chocolate Soldier | Ebay - bigmikek | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Chojuraku 長寿楽 (Longevity Music) (Tree) | Ebay - garden*breeze (Garden's Breeze - Mount Tabor, NJ) | 2016 | |
| Coral Fay | Ebay | 2004 | ✓ right |
| Coral 'N Gold | Ebay - mr.greengenes1 | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Coral Sunset | Ebay - nielsvnoort2c2z (Niels L. Van Noort - Woodland, WA) | 2015 | |
| Dinner Plate | Ebay - luckybusya | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Dr. Alexander Fleming | Ebay - willowcreekgardens | 2007 | |
| Duchesse de Nemours | Ebay - luckybusya | 2004 | ✓ right |
| Flame | Ebay - superchukcha | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Fragrant Jade (Xiang Yu) (Tree) | Ebay - hungsupplysolutions | 2013 | ✓ right |
| Golden Wheel (Huang Jin Lun) | Ebay - beautifulpeony | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Goldmine (Huang Jin Lun) | Ebay - hirtsgardens (Hirts - Wadsworth, OH) | 2016 | |
| Hanakisoi 花競 (Floral Rivalry) (Tree) | Ebay - hirtsgardens (Hirts - Wadsworth, OH) | 2016 | |
| Houki 芳紀 (Charming Age) (Tree) | Ebay - hirtsgardens (Hirts - Wadsworth, OH) | 2016 | |
| High Noon (Tree) | Ebay - hirtsgardens (Hirts - Wadsworth, OH) | 2018 | |
| Hillary (Intersectional) | Ebay - ricknken03cw | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Impossible Dream (Intersectional) | Ebay - atskor8 (Svet Vasyl - Moscow, PA) | 2014 | X wrong - wrong itoh yellow |
| Joannna Marlene (Intersectional) | Ebay - garden*breeze (Garden's Breeze - Mount Tabor, NJ) | 2015 | |
| Julia Rose (Intersectional) | Ebay - ricknken03cw | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Kamata-nishiki 鎌田錦 (Tree) | Ebay - atskor8 (Svet Vasyl - Moscow, PA) | 2014 | :( died |
| Kamata-nishiki 鎌田錦 (Tree) | Ebay - orientalpeony (Yongdong Wu - Upper Malboro, MD) | 2016 | ✓ right |
| Karl Rosenfield | Ebay - willowcreekgardens | 2007 | |
| Kinkaku (Souvenir de Maxime Cornu) (Tree) | Ebay - atskor8 (Svet Vasyl - Moscow, PA) | 2014 | X wrong - wrong tree peony white |
| Koukamon 皇嘉門 (Floral Gate) (Tree) | Ebay - garden*breeze (Garden's Breeze - Mount Tabor, NJ) | 2017 | |
| Lemon Dream (Intersectional) | Ebay - macao2000 | 2012 | :( died |
| Lemon Dream (Intersectional) | Ebay - jackshouse2008 (Therese Sprauer - Brooks, OR) | 2014 | ✓ right |
| Lollipop (Intersectional) | Ebay - atskor8 (Svet Vasyl - Moscow, PA) | 2014 | X wrong - wrong itoh yellow |
| Love Affair (Intersectional) | Ebay - bernard*sweety (Anna Snitkovskaia - Brooklyn, NY) | 2014 | X wrong - single hot pink root stock |
| Mother's Choice | Ebay - mcgper1 | 2005 | ✓ right |
| Mr. Ed | Ebay - hostagardens | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Nymphe | Ebay - superchukcha | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Old Rose Dandy (Intersectional) | Ebay - macao2000 | 2012 | ✓ right |
| Paeonia delavayi var lutea ludlowii (Tree) | Ebay - dogwooderitternet | 2013 | :( died |
| Paeonia rockii (Tree) | Ebay - zwan2392 (Zuncai Wang) | 2013 | ✓ right |
| Paula Fay | Ebay - mr.greengenes1 | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Petticoat Flounce | Ebay - bigmikek | 2007 | |
| Pink Firefly | Ebay - hostagardens | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Pink Jazz | Ebay - luckybusya | 2004 | ✓ right |
| Prairie Charm (Intersectional) | Ebay - vasyl_svet (Sergei Snitkovskiy - Brooklyn, NY) | 2015 | |
| Prairie Charm (Intersectional) | Ebay - orientalpeony (Yongdong Wu - Upper Malboro, MD) | 2016 | |
| Raspberry Firefly | Ebay - greenatlatl | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Red Double Fernleaf | Ebay - hanskaflowers | 2006 | |
| Red Dwarf Single Fernleaf | Ebay - bigmikek | 2007 | |
| Reine Hortense | Ebay - luckybusya | 2005 | |
| Scarlet Heaven (Intersectional) | Ebay - macao2000 | 2012 | X wrong - wrong itoh old rose dandy? |
| Scarlet O'Hara | Ebay - mr.greengenes1 | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Sorbet | Ebay | 2004 | ✓ right |
| Shimadaijin 島大臣 (Island Minister) (Tree) | Ebay - garden*breeze (Garden's Breeze - Mount Tabor, NJ) | 2016 | ✓ right |
| Shimanishiki 島錦 (Island Brocade) (Tree) | Ebay - garden*breeze (Garden's Breeze - Mount Tabor, NJ) | 2017 | |
| Taiyo 太陽 (The Sun) (Tree) | Ebay - tyebrook (Samuel Saunders - Lovingston, Virginia) | 2016 | ✓ right |
| Tom Eckhardt | Ebay - hirtsgardens (Hirts - Wadsworth, OH) | 2007 | |
| Tria (Tree) | Ebay - atskor8 (Svet Vasyl - Moscow, PA) | 2014 | X wrong - wrong tree peony white |
| White Phoenix (Feng Dan Bai) (Tree) | Ebay - easyplantingli | 2013 | ✓ right |
| White Phoenix (Feng Dan Bai) (Tree) | Ebay - hungsupplysolutions (Henry Hung, Hicksville, NY) | 2016 | ✓ right |
| Yao's Yellow (Tree) | Ebay - orientalpeony (Yongdong Wu - Upper Malboro, MD) | 2016 | ✓ right |
| Yellow Crown (Intersectional) | Ebay - mcgper1 | 2007 | ✓ right |
| Yellow Heaven (Intersectional) | Ebay - bernard*sweety (Anna Snitkovskaia - Brooklyn, NY) | 2014 | X wrong - single hot pink root stock |
| Yellow Waterlily (Intersectional) | Ebay - craftygalinmi (Kathy Carrigan, Lacy Creek Growers - Vermontville, MI) | 2015 | |
| Yumi ?? (Possess Beauty) - Yellow Doodle Dandy (Intersectional) | Ebay - atskor8 (Svet Vasyl - Moscow, PA) | 2014 | X wrong - wrong itoh peony prairie charm? |
| Yumi (Possess Beauty) - Yellow Doodle Dandy (Intersectional) | Ebay - garden*breeze (Garden's Breeze - Mount Tabor, NJ) | 2016 | ✓ right |