The magnificent grassy peony of the Dutch selection called Sorbet is one of the most popular decorative crops by Russian gardeners. It is impossible to imagine a garden without this exquisite luxurious handsome man, able to decorate any, even the most austere landscape, and organically fit into a park or country interior.
Peony Sorbet with its elegant laconic beauty is popular among famous designers and novice gardeners. He successfully competes with new, no less dazzling varieties. We will pay attention to the description of this plant and the agricultural technique of its cultivation in this article.
Peony Sorbet: Description
A compact bush of medium flowering periods, growing to 0.9 m in height, fascinates with terry buds of the most delicate pink-cream shades that bloom in mid-June. Unpretentious perennial with a powerful rhizome and strong strong peduncles that withstand large flowers, reaching 16-18 cm in diameter. The flower of such a culture as the peony Sorbet is unusual: three-layer, it consists of alternating rows of concave petals of various shapes. Luxurious flowering is accompanied by a fresh bright aroma - a kind of visiting card of the variety.
Not only a flowering bush is decorative, dense, figuredly dissected leaves on strong stems and after flowering retain their magnificent shape, gradually changing lush summer greens to autumn crimson.
Cultivation preferences and agricultural technology
The enviable endurance of peonies is well known, they have high frost resistance, easily tolerating a sharp change in temperature and snowless winters, they grow excellently on soils of any structure and can bloom without getting proper nutrition. All these qualities fully characterize the Sorbet peony, but fertile soils provide a more generous and spectacular flowering.
This culture is photophilous, and planted in well-fertilized loams with a neutral reaction in the open sun, it will surprise with the first flowering in the third year. Most often, peony Sorbet is propagated by dividing rhizomes. The best time for this is August or September. The standard delenka should have a piece of rhizome and several shoots on which 3-4 growth buds are present. Delenki is planted in planting pits of standard sizes, compacting the soil (without trampling!), Well watered.
Pre-winter worries
Before winter, a young peony is mulched with humus, sawdust or wood chips, covered with special materials, spruce spruce branches, roofing felt. With the advent of early spring, the insulation is removed, as the culture starts growing, as soon as the sun begins to warm. Adult crops do not need additional shelters. For the winter, all peony stalks are cut, leaving five centimeter stumps above the ground.
Peony Care
The unpretentiousness and truly unique endurance of the culture are surprising, because even the complete absence of caring events will not stop their bright flowering. But a certain care significantly increases the decorativeness, so periodic watering, loosening and weeding the soil under the bush are necessary. The first two years, the plant is not fed, because it has enough nutrition in the soil obtained during planting. From the third year, the peony should receive food twice a season: in spring and in the fall.
Spring fertilizing with high-quality organics will push the plant to growth. And after flowering, phosphorus-potassium fertilizers are added, which are necessary to strengthen the tissues of the culture. In addition, regular watering, weeding and loosening of the soil under the bush are very welcomed by a crop like the Sorbet peony. Reviews of gardeners cultivating this variety in their own gardens are unanimous. All of them emphasize the dazzling beauty of the plant, even with minimal care.