@Mieko2 Nah, I never really was impressed by theat particular color of yellow.. I have seen huge ones for sale. I mean gigantic plants. But somebody eventually wanted an instant show piece, in their garden... I just wasn't turned on by 'intersectional' of much of any of the many various plants I grew. I was able to create my own intergeneric hybrids & just was mainly out of curiosity. I destroyed the resulting perennial. It is true, that the Chinese started with crossing the Peony, in the first place, then made 'suffruticosa' & that has been going on for well over 1500 years. The Japanese admired them & they did their own, (Botan)creations having their own particular style.While much of what the Chinese had created, was destroyed by the Yang Tze River, which flooded. It is a dangerous river as my cousin went on a boat trip & that river caused the boat to capsize. (Survived.).
@kousa Sorry, but unfortunately I had given it away what may have been Kamata nishiki & could have saved you the expense & bother! I had some really nice ones. Will have a look at others, on previous pages.. What I perhaps forgot, was that the buds, once grafted again, or perhaps on the original plant also, can mutate.
In roses, it's called a 'sport' & becomes a new cv. But in regeneration & production of the tree peony, maybe some are doing like roses & what I had thought was stable isn't, & the mutated buds of the new grafted cutting isn't any longer like what the parent plant was anymore. Just as with Shimanishiki, with white stripes, very unlike it's parent.
It isn't that I haven't seen some beautiful Chinese( Mudan). It is the outrageous prices that turns me away from that. Seems a bit greedy....Shawn
