{"id":18813,"date":"2018-05-16T13:58:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T12:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18813"},"modified":"2018-05-16T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T10:36:38","slug":"peonie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/peonie\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Peonies from the Far East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"tree peony \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4628671213\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4044\/4628671213_844acf5fab.jpg\" alt=\"tree peony\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>History of Tree Peonies<\/h3>\n<p>The ancient Chinese have cultivated Tree Peonies for over 1500 years. Prized specimens are and were grown for medicinal purposes as they contain glucocides and alkolides. The\u00c2\u00a0 imperial palace gardens had many specimens that became quite valuable.<\/p>\n<p>The tree peony was, for a time, the national flower of China and it is thought Chairman Mao sought to ban their growth as a decadent pastime. The root of P suffruicosa has been used in medicine for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Plants were transported to Japan in the 14th century. The Japanese\u00c2\u00a0 bred tree peonies creating over 1200 hybrids some of which are still grown today.<\/p>\n<p>The cult status of Japanese Tree peonies encouraged 18th century plant hunters to import tree peonies in to Europe, particularly France and England. These plant hunters like Veitch, Joseph Rock and Kelway started their own breeding programmes from some of the five wild species and other hybrids.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19291\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/great-spring-035-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Americans crossed P.lutea (above) and P. delavayi with Japanese hybrids to produce some of the vibrant colours now available. The flowers have a short but colourful life! The shrubs are far more long lived.<\/p>\n<p>Tree peonies have long featured in oriental watercolour paintings. by Zou Yigui (1686\u00e2\u20ac\u201c1772). Some of the varieties, like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcYao\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Yellow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWei\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Purple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 are\u00c2\u00a0 depicted in a series of paintings\u00c2\u00a0 mentioned in the <em>Record of the Tree Peonies of Luoyang<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Ouyang xiu (1007-1072 CE).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19294\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden-014-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><br \/>\nImagine the splendid sight when all the buds open.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19295\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden-011-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden-011-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden-011-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden-011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden-011-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of Tree Peonies The ancient Chinese have cultivated Tree Peonies for over 1500 years. Prized specimens are and were grown for medicinal purposes as they contain glucocides and alkolides. The\u00c2\u00a0 imperial palace gardens had many specimens that became quite valuable. The tree peony was, for a time, the national flower of China and it is thought Chairman Mao sought to ban their growth as a decadent pastime. The root of P suffruicosa has been used in medicine for centuries&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/peonie\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19296,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions\/19296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}