Unpretentious Perennial Peonies are decorated with many private gardens and city flower beds. If you like these luxury spring flowers, then definitely put them on your site. From this article, you will learn in detail about all nuances of peonies disembarking into the ground and learn about the types of this plant.
Types of peonies
In nature, there are two main types of peonies:
- Herbate. They have thick juicy green stems that every spring grows out of the ground and flowers bloom at their ends. Require annual trimming for the very root.
- Tree. Grow into rather powerful bushes with brown escapes resembling trees branches. Do not require the cutting of shoots and perfectly carry the harsh winters. Flowers they develop from the kidneys that blooming on the overwhelming branches.
Methods and conditions of landing of these two species than it is very similar, and what they are fundamentally different.
How to plant herbaceous peonies?
Where to plant
- Poni bushes for several years grow in huge arrays. Therefore, do not squeeze them too close to the tracks - their flexible stems will fall on it and make it difficult to move.
- Flowers do not tolerate the convergence, so place them on the raised flower bed.
- Peonies love the sun - choose open areas away from trees and shrubs.
- To the soil, these plants are not too demanding, but they will not grow to grow in the sand.
When to plant
- The best time for planting peonies is the period from mid-April and until mid-May. Details withstand if the peonies you bought at the same time. They are sold in spring in the form of small decene with open roots and with only beginners develop shoots.
- In some network stores, peonies are sold until the middle of the summer, but in the opponents, i.e. with a closed root system. If you are sure that you can remove your bush without damaging an earthen com, you can produce landing up to the tenths of July.
- A big born bush, which grows on your site, can also divide and plant a few bushes. Do it in the middle of August.
How to plant
- Drop the pit in a depth of about 60 cm. If you are going to plant some bushes at once, then between the pits, make a distance of at least 1 m - the bushes are very growing. Width of the pit - three times wider than the decene or separated bush.
- Mix duck up the ground, a little chernozem, humus and bulk clay. In the percentage ratio it will look like this: 55% - Earth, 15% - clay, black soil, humus.
- Pull the pit prepared by the mixture without reaching the top 10-12 cm. In the middle, make a rather impressive holmik.
- Put the Delleka on this hillok, whether to raise the roots. Fall off the bust of the earth. Watch that young kidneys are underground and above them were approximately 5 cm of soil.
- Fancy and pour the land. Pour landing with two wood ash grips. Castle the planted peony grass.
- If you plant a plant from the container, then dig a pit with an earthen kom and satisfy the peony right with this room, without parancing the roots.
How to plant tree peonies?
Where to plant
Unlike deciduous peonies, which look good in arrays from several bushes, the tree wins with their single landing. Choose a well-lit and not a wetland, which will be seen from all corners of the garden. Keep in mind that an adult bush of such a peony can achieve a two-meter height. Watch that he then did not overlap other plants.
When to plant
- Tree peonies can be planted in spring and autumn.
- The best time is the fall - September month. If you bought a peony in the container in the spring, it is better to cover it until September to the ground without removing from the container.
- By purchasing a tree-like peony in the spring with an open root system, immediately sat down at a permanent place to do not reset it in the fall.
How to plant
- One month before the planting of the peony, dig a cone-shaped yam with a depth of 80 cm and a width of 70 cm.
- At the bottom of the pit to put drainage with a layer of 10-15 cm. It can be a broken brick, small gravel or even sand.
- Fill the pit with a mixture of one part of the dug, one part of the reworked manure, one part of the peat. In the mixture, add 100 g of superphosphate and 300 g of wood ash.
- Before boarding in the filled earth, I form a holmik, which makes the mixture from the edges of the pit to its center.
- Install a young bush on a hilly woman, placing his roots on the elevation sides. The root neck of the peony should have on the same level from the main land.
- Pour the peony of ordinary earth from the bed. Pour the plant and decompose around dry grass as a mulch.
From this video you will learn about the very late autumn planting of peonies, which sometimes can be in one way or another.