I was just talking to a Dutch importer who sells them to Costco. What’s interesting with these intersectionals is they’ve been picked up by some of the really big nurseries like Monrovia, and it’s becoming the most commonly available peony at this point. Some dark reds and even a white, which is a not very commonly available still. More kind of subtle tones, not just that really vibrant yellow. It’s really some of the American breeders who have done the most to sort of advance these new intersectional hybrids, particularly a gentleman Roger Anderson from Wisconsin.Īnd so there’s some beautiful kind of peaches and rose and apricot. So there have been a couple of American breeders, and now a few in France and Belgium and Western Europe. But when they look at the assortment, it’s not just yellow ones in these intersectionals now. In the spring we’re open basically like a regular garden center during the peony bloom and then throughout the summer and fall more limited hours. Margaret: But when I look in your catalog … you have a mail-order operation, and do you do have some open days there where people come in?ĭan: Yes, oh yes. What are some of the other gold ones, I can’t remember.ĭan: Well there’s ‘Golden Crown,’ there’s ‘Oriental Gold.’ There’s … Yes. Margaret: And then another one that’s a golden something. Margaret: I have one called I think ‘Bartzella’– And second of all, because they are these interesting crosses that have the flowers and leaf like a tree peony, but that green herbaceous stem that dies back in the fall. They were kind of a sensation first of all, because they were yellow. I had no idea.ĭan: Yes, so he passed away in the early fifties, and they didn’t bloom I think until the mid-fifties and so it was actually, I think his son-in-law or someone who was related to the nursery who introduced them first in Japan and then in in the U.S. And kind of tragically, he actually died before he saw his first seedlings bloom. Can you tell us a little bit about those?ĭan: Yes, so known as the intersectional, or pretty commonly in the trade as Itoh peonies.ĭan: Yes, and that is to commemorate Toichi Itoh, who was a Japanese nurseryman who was the first person to do the successful cross between the tree and herbaceous peony in the late forties. I was thinking maybe you have not only, I think your parents began with the tree types and then evolved to the herbaceous ones, but there’s that in-between kind to that I’m kind of interested in. So I should, since I admitted that just again now and in the introduction, that I think of you as synonymous with fabulous peonies and the fall is sort of peak peony ordering and planting time. Margaret: Oh, it’s so fun because I had no idea and I feel so ignorant because I think of Cricket Hill as peonies. Thank you so much for having me, Margaret. I’m so excited that I saw you at the booth the other day.ĭaniel Furman: Yes.
unusual fruits, with dan furman of cricket hill Tastings will be included if fruit is ripe! Get information about the edible landscaping walk and reserve a spot. Learn about cultivar selection, site prep, planting and more. Highlights include pawpaw, persimmon, quince, medlar, Asian pear, mulberry, and elderberry. Spend a morning exploring the fruit and berry plantings around the nursery, where over the last decade they have added hundreds of native and exotic fruiting trees and shrubs in both orchard settings as well in more established landscapes. 12ĭAN FURMAN will lead an edible-landscaping walk on Octofrom 10 AM to noon at Cricket Hill Garden in Thomaston, Connecticut.
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You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here). Read along as you listen to the Septemedition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. That’s Dan, below, in a recent video he did on Cricket Hill’s Instagram, praising Aronia fruit (chokeberry). Well, Dan brought with him a growing interest in edible ornamentals, he says, “to make landscapes more bountiful, not just beautiful.” And with lots of personal research and experimentation, he has added a great assortment of them to the Cricket Hill lineup. I didn’t know what the plants were till I looked at the tags, which turned out to be unusual fruits like medlar and melonberry and pawpaw, for edible landscaping.Ībout 10 years ago, Dan Furman joined the nursery and mail-order operation his parents Kasha and David had started in 1989 in Connecticut to specialize in Chinese tree peonies, which are still a mainstay of the family business. But one row in their display didn’t look like peonies at all. AT A RECENT PLANT SALE at Hollister House Garden in Connecticut, I stopped by the booth of Cricket Hill Garden, known for 30 years as producers of exceptional tree peonies and herbaceous peonies, too.
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