Showing posts with label Pacific. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pacific. Show all posts
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Castlegar Peony Show 2015
Pacific Region Report to Canadian Peony Society August 24, 2014
The Pacific Region co-directors have been working with a
small team at the organization of the Castlegar Peony Show 2015.
To date we have confirmed the following: :
Venue: Sandman Hotel, Castlegar,
BC, telephone 250-365-8444 Rate code 229492 for
attendees to receive reduced room rate. Dates: June 27-28, entries will be
accepted on the 26th and 27th, judging on the
27th. Chief Judges: Carol & Jim
Adelman, Adelman Peony Paradise, Salem, OR. Confirmed a caterer, luncheon
date/time, and presentation by Carol Adelman
Catered luncheon June 27, noon, ,followed by a peony power point presentation by Carol Adelman, such activities to be located at a different venue within walking distance of the hotel. We will accept requests for luncheon/presentation tickets until such time as they are available closer to show time. $20.00 Canadian each We are enthusiastically requesting entries from one and all across the country. Our local area has never had a peony show, so we are asking them to do something new! Wish us luck and good fortune.
Shipping and receiving of peony
entries from outside the area:
Shipments will be received by : Darlene Kalawsky, Kalawsky GM, 1700 Columbia Ave, Castlegar, BC. V1N 2W4, 250-365-2155
Such shipments must arrive on the Thursday June 25 or Friday June 26, or we will not be able to enter the buds. An individual volunteer will be assigned to each shipment to ensure that all entries are treated with due respect and professionalism. Each shipment will treated with due respect and peonies entered for competition by a volunteer.
Recommended shippers: Greyhound from BC (not Vancouver Island) and Alberta addresses. All other entries should use Xpress Post( not Priority as we are too small a city to have that service), Air Canada Air Freight and/or Fedex. We will be updating the CPS website with information about shipping and receiving of entries from outside the area.
Shipments will be received by : Darlene Kalawsky, Kalawsky GM, 1700 Columbia Ave, Castlegar, BC. V1N 2W4, 250-365-2155
Such shipments must arrive on the Thursday June 25 or Friday June 26, or we will not be able to enter the buds. An individual volunteer will be assigned to each shipment to ensure that all entries are treated with due respect and professionalism. Each shipment will treated with due respect and peonies entered for competition by a volunteer.
Recommended shippers: Greyhound from BC (not Vancouver Island) and Alberta addresses. All other entries should use Xpress Post( not Priority as we are too small a city to have that service), Air Canada Air Freight and/or Fedex. We will be updating the CPS website with information about shipping and receiving of entries from outside the area.
Questions: please email Adriana Work
at info@peonyfarm.ca, or Holly Pender-Love at
hplove8@telus.net
Please note: all other information
about this show will be posted at www.peonyfarm.ca as it becomes available,
such as the show schedule, information for entrants, etc.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Yellow Itoh ???
photo by Alice H.
A photo of this lovely bloom was taken September 9, 2010. Label was lost. Could be Yellow Heaven?? Any ideas.
Submitted by Alice Homer P.E.I.
A photo of this lovely bloom was taken September 9, 2010. Label was lost. Could be Yellow Heaven?? Any ideas.
Submitted by Alice Homer P.E.I.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Peonies in the BC Interior
Taken from The Peony C to C, May 2005, Vol 8 Issue 2
by Eva Mitravitz
It is the first week of February here in my part of the country. The temperatures are 50F+, the robins have returned and the grass that turned brown last fall has begun to show green.
A walk through my peony fields shows several of the early varieties have become adventurous and are pushing their red shoots throught the ground. It is a bit early, but the soil is too wet and muddy to allow me to cover them, so will take a chance on a hard frost later.
I live in the Similkameen Valley, which roughly parallels the U.S. border along Highway 3, which we call the crows Nest Highway. About 12 miles from here we climb a Pass and enter the Okanagan Valley at Osoyoos.
The tip of the Sonoran Desert, which begins in Mexico and extends northwards to Osoyoos, ends here outside of our area. Some of the inhabitants - rattlesnakes, rear-fanged boa, scorpions, 26 varieties of spiders, and many more fauna reside here. We have beautiful birds, California quail, a very mild climate, (except for a couple of weeks in December and January) that all contributes to making this one of the most desirable places in Canada to live. But, like all Edens, it has its drawbacks. Here it is the soil and extremely hot weather in July and August.
The soil is thin and composed of volcanic ash and some clay. If sand were to be added to this composition, then we would have cement.
We farm cherries, peaches, some pears and apples, and also, 50 filbert nut trees. A large garden is planted for our own use. Each spring we amend the soil by adding well rotted cow and / or turkey manure; bone meal; composted garden refuse and leaves; wood chips from our tree pruning are used as mulch on the flowerbeds.
To obtain the required moisture for the peony roots, we have installed a system of soaker hoses along each of the rows or around the beds and the water is turned on when needed during the night. Because of the lack of snowfall and rain in our area, fall planting is extremely difficult. Our land is irrigated by community water and this is turned on April 15th and shut off October 15th. So, I have been buying from suppliers who will ship in the spring. So far it has been a success.
I have always grown a few peonies in my gardens wherever we have lived over the past 50 years, but never had the time to really investigate the many varieties. After purchasing this retirement property, I began adding as many plants as I could afford each year and now have nearly 100 varieties. My collection also boasts several very old varieties given to me from friends' parents' gardens and now with retirement, I will be able to spend more time looking for their names.
Two years ago I began contributing data to Michael Denny's Bloom Dates project. We discovered that several of my varieties have such widely differing bloom times from the rest of the country that it will be worthwhile to log this data in minute detail to discover the reasons for the differences.
This is an exciting time for me. Not many people get the chance to do what they want this late in life. The more I read, the more books I find and add to my collection, the more beautiful blooms I get to see in my garden, the more eager I become to try new peony plants. For the first time I have planted seeds after watching John Simkin's video and what a joy to see the roots a few days ago! I had tried earlier without success and thought it was my inexperience that had caused the failures.
Happy peony gardening to you all!!
by Eva Mitravitz
It is the first week of February here in my part of the country. The temperatures are 50F+, the robins have returned and the grass that turned brown last fall has begun to show green.
A walk through my peony fields shows several of the early varieties have become adventurous and are pushing their red shoots throught the ground. It is a bit early, but the soil is too wet and muddy to allow me to cover them, so will take a chance on a hard frost later.
I live in the Similkameen Valley, which roughly parallels the U.S. border along Highway 3, which we call the crows Nest Highway. About 12 miles from here we climb a Pass and enter the Okanagan Valley at Osoyoos.
The tip of the Sonoran Desert, which begins in Mexico and extends northwards to Osoyoos, ends here outside of our area. Some of the inhabitants - rattlesnakes, rear-fanged boa, scorpions, 26 varieties of spiders, and many more fauna reside here. We have beautiful birds, California quail, a very mild climate, (except for a couple of weeks in December and January) that all contributes to making this one of the most desirable places in Canada to live. But, like all Edens, it has its drawbacks. Here it is the soil and extremely hot weather in July and August.
The soil is thin and composed of volcanic ash and some clay. If sand were to be added to this composition, then we would have cement.
We farm cherries, peaches, some pears and apples, and also, 50 filbert nut trees. A large garden is planted for our own use. Each spring we amend the soil by adding well rotted cow and / or turkey manure; bone meal; composted garden refuse and leaves; wood chips from our tree pruning are used as mulch on the flowerbeds.
To obtain the required moisture for the peony roots, we have installed a system of soaker hoses along each of the rows or around the beds and the water is turned on when needed during the night. Because of the lack of snowfall and rain in our area, fall planting is extremely difficult. Our land is irrigated by community water and this is turned on April 15th and shut off October 15th. So, I have been buying from suppliers who will ship in the spring. So far it has been a success.
I have always grown a few peonies in my gardens wherever we have lived over the past 50 years, but never had the time to really investigate the many varieties. After purchasing this retirement property, I began adding as many plants as I could afford each year and now have nearly 100 varieties. My collection also boasts several very old varieties given to me from friends' parents' gardens and now with retirement, I will be able to spend more time looking for their names.
Two years ago I began contributing data to Michael Denny's Bloom Dates project. We discovered that several of my varieties have such widely differing bloom times from the rest of the country that it will be worthwhile to log this data in minute detail to discover the reasons for the differences.
This is an exciting time for me. Not many people get the chance to do what they want this late in life. The more I read, the more books I find and add to my collection, the more beautiful blooms I get to see in my garden, the more eager I become to try new peony plants. For the first time I have planted seeds after watching John Simkin's video and what a joy to see the roots a few days ago! I had tried earlier without success and thought it was my inexperience that had caused the failures.
Happy peony gardening to you all!!
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden
by Alice McCauley
The mandate of the Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden is to maintain and enhance the bridge of understanding between Chinese and Western cultures; it is a "living museum" in which to exhibit and interpret Chinese culture, art and history. The New Hall of One Hundred Rivers was built to showcase art and horticultural exhibitions, and to accommodate expanding educational and public programming needs.
May has been designated Peony Month at the Garden. On May 2nd a peony art exhibition will be installed throughout the halls, and on weekends there will be brush painting demonstrations by professional artists.
The Peony Festival will take place on the weekend of May 21st. The Society will provide an "educational presence", including an information booth, peony displays, a talk on peony cultivation, and an ongoing visual presentation. Information will be available from volunteers from the VanDusen Botanical Garden's Master Gardener's program. The Garden will provide music, poetry readings, embroidery demonstrations, tasting of flower teas, and a display of textiles.
for further information about the Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden visit the website at
http://www.vancouverchinesegarden.com/
The mandate of the Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden is to maintain and enhance the bridge of understanding between Chinese and Western cultures; it is a "living museum" in which to exhibit and interpret Chinese culture, art and history. The New Hall of One Hundred Rivers was built to showcase art and horticultural exhibitions, and to accommodate expanding educational and public programming needs.
May has been designated Peony Month at the Garden. On May 2nd a peony art exhibition will be installed throughout the halls, and on weekends there will be brush painting demonstrations by professional artists.
The Peony Festival will take place on the weekend of May 21st. The Society will provide an "educational presence", including an information booth, peony displays, a talk on peony cultivation, and an ongoing visual presentation. Information will be available from volunteers from the VanDusen Botanical Garden's Master Gardener's program. The Garden will provide music, poetry readings, embroidery demonstrations, tasting of flower teas, and a display of textiles.
for further information about the Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden visit the website at
http://www.vancouverchinesegarden.com/
Monday, May 9, 2005
Peonies in the BC Interior
Taken from The Peony C to C
May 2005 Vol 8 Issue 2
By E Mitravitz
It is the first week of February here in my part of the country. The temperatures are 50F+, the robins have returned and the grass that turned brown last fall has begun to show green.
A walk through my peony fields shows several of the early varieties have become adventurous and are pushing their red shoots through the ground. It is a bit early, but the soil is too wet and muddy to allow me to cover them, so will take chance on a hard frost later.
I live in the Similkameen Valley, which roughly parallels the U.S. border along Highway 3, which we call the Crows Nest Highway. About 12 miles from here we climb a Pass and enter the Okanagan Valley at Osoyoos.
The tip of the Sonoran Desert, which begins in Mexico and extends northward to Osoyoos, ends here just outside of our area. Some of the inhabitants - rattlesnakes, rear-fanged boa, scorpions, 26 varieties of spiders, and may more fauna reside here. We have beautiful birds, California quail, a very mild climate, (except for a couple weeks in December and January)that all contributes to making this one of the most desirable places in Canad to live. But, like all Edens, it has its drawbacks. Here it is the soil and extremely hot weather in July and August.
The soil is thin and composed of volcanic ash and some clay. If sand were to be added to this composition, then we would have cement.
We farm cherries, peaches, some pears and apples and also, 50 filbert trees. A large garden is planted for our own use. Each spring we amend the soil by adding well rotted cow and/ or turkey manure; bone meal; composted garden refuse and leaves; wood chips from our tree pruning are used as mulch on the flowerbeds.
To obtain the required moisture for the peony roots, we have installed a system of soaker hoses along each of the rows or around the beds and the water is turned on when needed during the night. Because of the lack of snowfall and rain in our area, fall planting is extremely difficult. Our land is irrigated by community water and this is turned on April 15th and shut off October 15th. So, I have been buying from suppliers who will ship in the spring. So far it has been a success.
I have always grown a few peonies in my gardens wherever we have lived over the past 50 years, but never had the time to really investigate the many varieties. After purchasing this retirement property, I began adding as may plants as I could afford each year and now have nearly 100 varieties. My collection also boasts several very old varieties given to me from friends' parents' gardens and now with retirement, I will be ablt to spend more time looking for their names.
Two years ago I began contributing data to Michael Denny's Bloom Dates project. We discovered that several of my varieties have such widely differing bloom times from the rest of the country that it will be worthwhile to log this data in minute detail to discover the reasons for the differences.
This is an exciting time for me. Not many people get the chance to do what they want this late in life. The more I read, the more books I find and add to my collection, the more beautiful blooms I get to see in my garden, the more eager I become to try new peony plants. For the first time I have planted seeds after watching John Simkin's video and what a joy to see the roots a few days ago! I had tried earlier without success and thought it was my inexperience that had caused the failures.
Happy peony gardening to you all!
May 2005 Vol 8 Issue 2
By E Mitravitz
It is the first week of February here in my part of the country. The temperatures are 50F+, the robins have returned and the grass that turned brown last fall has begun to show green.
A walk through my peony fields shows several of the early varieties have become adventurous and are pushing their red shoots through the ground. It is a bit early, but the soil is too wet and muddy to allow me to cover them, so will take chance on a hard frost later.
I live in the Similkameen Valley, which roughly parallels the U.S. border along Highway 3, which we call the Crows Nest Highway. About 12 miles from here we climb a Pass and enter the Okanagan Valley at Osoyoos.
The tip of the Sonoran Desert, which begins in Mexico and extends northward to Osoyoos, ends here just outside of our area. Some of the inhabitants - rattlesnakes, rear-fanged boa, scorpions, 26 varieties of spiders, and may more fauna reside here. We have beautiful birds, California quail, a very mild climate, (except for a couple weeks in December and January)that all contributes to making this one of the most desirable places in Canad to live. But, like all Edens, it has its drawbacks. Here it is the soil and extremely hot weather in July and August.
The soil is thin and composed of volcanic ash and some clay. If sand were to be added to this composition, then we would have cement.
We farm cherries, peaches, some pears and apples and also, 50 filbert trees. A large garden is planted for our own use. Each spring we amend the soil by adding well rotted cow and/ or turkey manure; bone meal; composted garden refuse and leaves; wood chips from our tree pruning are used as mulch on the flowerbeds.
To obtain the required moisture for the peony roots, we have installed a system of soaker hoses along each of the rows or around the beds and the water is turned on when needed during the night. Because of the lack of snowfall and rain in our area, fall planting is extremely difficult. Our land is irrigated by community water and this is turned on April 15th and shut off October 15th. So, I have been buying from suppliers who will ship in the spring. So far it has been a success.
I have always grown a few peonies in my gardens wherever we have lived over the past 50 years, but never had the time to really investigate the many varieties. After purchasing this retirement property, I began adding as may plants as I could afford each year and now have nearly 100 varieties. My collection also boasts several very old varieties given to me from friends' parents' gardens and now with retirement, I will be ablt to spend more time looking for their names.
Two years ago I began contributing data to Michael Denny's Bloom Dates project. We discovered that several of my varieties have such widely differing bloom times from the rest of the country that it will be worthwhile to log this data in minute detail to discover the reasons for the differences.
This is an exciting time for me. Not many people get the chance to do what they want this late in life. The more I read, the more books I find and add to my collection, the more beautiful blooms I get to see in my garden, the more eager I become to try new peony plants. For the first time I have planted seeds after watching John Simkin's video and what a joy to see the roots a few days ago! I had tried earlier without success and thought it was my inexperience that had caused the failures.
Happy peony gardening to you all!
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