More and more often in Russian gardens you can see the milky-white hats of a beautiful grassy perennial peony with the exotic name Duchess de Nemours. This peony is characterized as a decorative-flowering plant, forming a large bush, growing up to 1 m in height.
We will get to know more closely with this culture, its preferences, features of agricultural technology and the necessary care.
Peony "Duchesse de Nemours": description
Florists are sensitive to this magnificent perennial, which is not surprising, since a rare garden plant can compete with other varieties in endurance, decorativeness and durability. Such is he, Duchesse de Nemours - a peony, for a long time occupying first place in sales in the flower market of the Netherlands.
A variety of medium late flowering, it forms a dense spreading bush with magnificent dark green complex-dissected leaves and delightful large inflorescences up to 16 cm in diameter.
Peony flowers are terry, crown. Their coloring is interesting: the outer petals are snow-white with a slightly noticeable greenish base, the crown is very dense milky white. The flowers exude a pleasant fresh aroma. The flowering time of the bush is about 18-20 days. However, the curved shape of dense foliage, located on strong basal shoots, supports the elegant decorativeness of the bush until the end of the season.
This variety is characterized by cut resistance; flowers do not lose commercial qualities within 10 days. In the garden interior, the plant is used in landscape ensembles and single plantings.
Culture preferences
Duchesse de Nemours is a peony with enviable winter hardiness and shade tolerance, but it blooms more abundantly in well-lit areas. Shelter for the winter is required only for young bushes, adults perfectly endure the hardships of the winter period. This variety is unpretentious to the soil structure, but grows more successfully on fertile sandy loam and loam. Planted on a site with fertilized loose soil, Duches de Nemour will not require additional fertilizing over the next 2-3 years. After planting, blooms in the third year.
Landing
The variety is easily propagated by dividing the bush, which is carried out closer to the beginning of autumn.
Digging holes for landing at a distance of 0.6-0.7 m, since the peony bushes are spreading. The soil in the selected area is prepared in advance by digging and adding 10 kg of high-quality organic matter - humus or compost, 50 g of superphosphate per square meter. The dimensions of the landing pit are traditional - 50x50. It is filled a quarter with fertilized soil, a divide is placed in it, trying to ensure that the growth buds are not deepened and are at ground level. If this condition is not met when planting, the plant may not bloom.
Caring events
Duchesse de Nemours is an unpretentious peony, but responds to the manifestation of care with more generous flowering. Under winter, the stems are cut almost at the base, leaving stumps 2-3 cm, and mulch the bush with peat or compost.
In the spring-summer period, the bush must be regularly watered, focusing on the weather conditions of the region. In dry periods, the moisture content is increased. Periodically arrange loosening of the soil and remove weeds.
From the third year of life, the peony is fed twice a season: in the spring, 2-3 kg of humus are applied under the bush, and after flowering, 30 g of phosphorus-potassium fertilizers are applied. The stems of the plant can not be cut before the beginning of autumn, since in August the plant intensively lays flower buds.
Peony Duches de Nemours is well-deserved among flower growers in many countries. It combines the modesty of an ascetic with the surprisingly high decorativeness of the king of the garden. This variety, like many white peonies, photos of which are published in different sources, is worth it to plant it in your own garden.