28.06.2002 Sieber : Die Sichtung der Stauden in Weihenstephan (1996) Results of the Weihenstephaner Institute for Plant control (1996)


27.06.2002: Aksel Olsen: Die Blütenformen der Pfingstrosen A danish model for the flower forms in peonies by Aksel Olsen


26.06.2002 Historische Kataloge von deutschen Gärtnereien mit Pfingstrosenangebot, illustriert und kreuzverlinkt (link) Historical Catalogs of german nurseries with peonies in stock, illustrated and crosslinked with registration files etc.


25.06.2002 Zhang Zhanping: 1996 Karyotype analysis of Paeonia ostii; in Yichuan, 18(5): Oct. 1996, pp. 3 - 6. ISSN: 0253-9772.

Zou, Y.-P., Cai, M.-L. & Wang, Z.-P.: 1999 Systematic studies on Paeonia sect. Moutan DC. based on RAPD analysis; in Zhiwu Fenlei Xuebao [Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica], 37 (3): 1999, pp. 220 – 227.

[Flora Romaniei]

24.Juni 2002 Publikationen von Dr. Cheng Fanyun aus Peking, diesmal ausgearbeitet (link) Publications of Dr. Cheng Fangyun, in the original text, but partly only in chinese (still) (link)

22.Juni 2002 Eine interessante Patentanmenldung in Spanien: P. 'Garcia Roch' An interesting novelty: a spanish plant patent registration for a hybrid peony. Many thanks to André Bourgonje for the copy!

Garcia Roch (Garcia Roch)

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19. Juni 2002 Übersetzung einer Tafel am Naturstandort von P. banatica. Vielen Dank an Harrie de Vries für das Foto!

18.Juni 2002 Preliminary report on a SPIN meeting in Sweden (pictures will follow)

10.Juni 2002 Publikationen von Dr. Cheng Fanyun aus Peking, unserem Gast zum Treffen in Wien Mai 2003 (link) Publication list of Dr. Cheng Fangyun, who will be guest to our next years' meeting in Vienna, May 2003 (link)

09. Juni 2002: Am 27. April 2002 besuchte ich zusammen mit Denis Wilson aus Australien die Gärtnerei Rivière im Departement Drome in Frankreich. Die Gärtnerei wird von Jean-Luc Rivière betrieben, sein Vater, Michel Rivière hat sich zurückgezogen. Wir haben ihn am Nachmittag in seinem Privatgarten besucht. On April 27 2002 I wvisited together with Denis Wilson the Pivoines Rivière in Crest / France. The nrusery is been operated by Jean-Luc Rivière, his father, Michel Rivière has retired. We visited him in his private garden on the afternoon the same day.

8. Juni 2002 Ich bekam heute eine eMail von einem anderen Paeonien-Liebhaber, der auch eine Website gebastelt hat mit vielen Links, die selbst mir noch unbekannt waren IRIGOIEN & PEREZ DE CALLEJA unter http://www.iandpc.com/ bzw. http://www.euskalnet.net/xirigoien/peonia.htm Today I had an eMail from another peony enthusiast with a website, who collected many links. Enjoy it!

4. Juni 2002 our annual peony meeting in Brueggen was held on this weekend. We had more than 50 visitors from 7 countries including Gian Lupo Osti from Italy, Denis Wilson from Australia and Josef Halda from the Czech Rep. and Dr. Fritz Neuhauser from Vienna in Austria

The sunshine was amazing and we had the opportunity to visit three peony gardens (the Ungerechts family's garden in Mönchengladbach, Mr. Tetzlaffs plantation near Düsseldorf and the garden of Harrie de Vries near Eindhoven in the Netherlands).

On the Saturday evening I showed almost 200 slides of my spring-peony tour through Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and Austria, showing the first pictures of Camillo Schneider's peonies, which he brought back after WW1 from there and are to be found as mature bushes in Vienna nowadays. In special the pictures of these phantastic tree peonies were so beautiful, that we decided to organise a meeting in their blooming time next year in Vienna (between May 1 and 4).

On Sunday Josef Halda showed pictures of peonies in their natural habitats in China and their companion plants. Josef almost caused me a heart attack, because he came very late on the Saturday evening after a traffic accident (he hit a deer in Bavaria), but nothing serious happened.

After the end of the meeting I took the opportunity to visit Leon Doyen, a peony collector in the near of Maastricht in Holland, who has almost every peony species in his garden and many interesting own crosses.

On Monday we couldn't resist to load our car with almost 20 potted species peonies in the nursery www.bastin.nl , many from China directly. It is irresitible, if you have the choice between 20 different potted P. mairei or wild lactifloras, though not in bloom, but interesting by the leaf itself.

Many thanks to Stephan Tetzlaff and Harrie de Vries for the help in the organisation of this meeting.

1. Juni 2002: Ein paar erste Bilder aus dem Schaugarten von Pivoines Rivière in Crest Ende April 2002 (link): Some first pictures from the show display garden of Pivoines Rivière in Crest / France April 2002 (link)

neu im Mai 2002 / new in May 2002