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 in a short period of time make their way out of the ground with plump, pinkish sprouts. It is then that a luxurious bush develops, throwing out beautiful huge buds that will fill the entire garden with their aroma.
Many foreign varieties are brought 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 peonies, novice flower growers experience twofold sensations. On the one hand, you want to get new varieties, but on the other hand, it’s scary if you fail to save fragile plants before planting in open ground.
Planting a peony in the spring is in many ways different from the same process, but what happens in the fall. Firstly, the purchased delenka should beplanted in a 3 liter pot. The substrate is best used ready-made, as it is light, nutritious and passes moisture well. If a flower was bought in early March, then it is necessary to try to restrain the development of its ground part (peonies grow it very quickly). Planting and care in the spring consists in planting the delenka in a pot and placing it in a dark and cool place where the temperature remains around + 1-3 ° С.
In April and May, the period of growth of suction roots begins. If the plant is pulled out of the pot, then you can see that the whole earthen ball is braided with white threads. When the soil warms up well, you can transship, planting the grown peony in a permanent place. At the same time, the earth ball must be intact so that the root system is not damaged. Planting a peony in the spring seems to many flower growers to be a rather dangerous exercise that can lead to the death of the plant. Therefore, sometimes flowers are dug in the garden along with pots, and then planted in a permanent place in the fall.
Planting a herbaceous peony should be carried out within a year from the date of prioritization, because, being in a pot, it will not build up the root system, a disease such as gray rot may appear. When buying, you must conduct a thorough inspection of the plant. Sometimes sellers try to sell diseased and withered flowers, claiming that they will come to life, as soon as they are planted in the ground. It is better to bypass dried and blackened buds, overdried delenki, because they can either take root or die. growth promoter herewon't help.
Yellow peonies are usually expensive, so don't buy varieties at low prices - they can't be of high quality. Sellers are thus trying to stick in inexperienced flower growers with goods of dubious quality. You should not throw away money to purchase blue and black flowers, because they simply do not exist in nature. Labels are deceptive, so the result will be drastically different from the picture. Planting a peony in the spring, although it is forced, in most cases, the bushes turn out no worse than those planted in the fall.
