Speaker event featuring experts: Paul and Esther Simmons
Schedule
Mon Aug 19 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC+12:00Location
The Kiosk, Christchurch Botanic Gardens | Christchurch, CA
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The Christchurch Peony Club is proud to host the highly regarded Paul and Esther Simmons as our guest speakers.Paid club members: free
All other attendees: $10
Bio: Paul and Esther Simmons.
https://peony.net.nz/
Paul & Esther Simmons are specialist root producers (i.e. propagators of peonies) and ran a peony nursery from 1986 until recently retiring from selling most of their peonies. For the autumn 2024 season they are selling a select range of: "Eternal Love", "Seidl's Super", and "Star Of Wonder".
Located on the outskirts of Christchurch, they started with 100 plants imported from USA and propagated all types of peonies including tree peonies, both for the garden market and commercial cut flower growers.
In 2011 they started to propagate a large number of varieties of tree peonies. All tree peonies they sold were established on their own roots instead of grafting, which is the most common way of propagating tree peonies. In their opinion, own root tree peonies have more vigour, are more reliable and have less health problems than grafted plants.
The Simmons have been highly regarded and respected exporters of peonies to overseas customers in countries including USA, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe.
The Simmons have featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles and registered a number of unique peonies with the American Peony Society which is considered to hold THE international register of peony varieties.
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Where is it happening?
The Kiosk, Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Christchurch Central, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand,Christchurch, New ZealandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
