Peonies are an excellent decoration for any garden. Their large bushes with beautiful fragrant flowers will delight even the most sophisticated grower. These amazing plants for a short period of time make their way out of the earth with plump, pinkish sprouts. This then develops a luxurious bush that throws beautiful huge buds that fill the entire garden with their aroma.
Many foreign varieties are imported to our stores in late February or early March, so planting a peony in the spring is forced. If possible, planting a bush should be done in late August and early September, planting young plants in a permanent place. When the store shelves are filled with peony shares, novice growers experience two sensations. On the one hand, I want to get new varieties, and on the other hand, it’s scary if you can’t save fragile plants before planting in open ground.
Planting a peony in the spring is very different from the same process, but taking place in the fall. Firstly, the purchased dividend should be planted in a 3 liter pot. The substrate is best used ready-made, because it is light, nutritious and well-permeable to moisture. If the flower was bought in early March, then it is necessary to try to restrain the development of its terrestrial part (peonies grow it very quickly). Planting and care in the spring consists of planting a delenka in a pot and placing it in a dark and cool place where the temperature remains at about + 1-3 ° C.
In April and May, a period of growing suction roots begins. If the plant is pulled out of the pot, then you can see that the entire earthen lump is braided with white threads. When the soil warms up well, you can transship, planting a grown peony in a permanent place. At the same time, the earthen lump must be intact so that the
root system is not damaged
. Planting a peony in the spring to many gardeners seems a rather dangerous occupation, which can lead to the death of the plant. Therefore, sometimes flowers are dug in the garden with pots, and then in the autumn they are planted in a permanent place.
Planting of grassy peonies should be carried out within a year from the moment of initiation, because, being in the pot, it will not build up the root system, a disease such as gray rot can appear. When buying, you need to conduct a thorough inspection of the plant. Sometimes sellers try to sell sick and wilted flowers, claiming that they will come to life, it is only necessary to plant in the ground. It is better to bypass dried and blackened kidneys, over-dried delenki, because they can either take root or die. Growth stimulator will not help here.
Yellow peonies are usually expensive, so you should not buy varieties at low prices - they cannot be of high quality. Sellers thus try to stick goods of dubious quality to inexperienced growers. Do not throw away money for the purchase of blue and black flowers, because they simply do not exist in nature. Labels are deceptive, so the result will be radically different from the picture. Planting a peony in the spring, although it is forced, but still in most cases the bushes turn out no worse than those planted in the fall.