Tree peonies planting and care in the open. How to properly propagate a tree bush? The process of planting in open ground

In autumn, peonies need special care, which will help plants successfully endure the cold season. When to prune peonies for the winter is a topical issue for all flower growers and owners of summer cottages. Proper and timely pruning will save the vital juices of the plant and prepare it for winter.

Peculiarities spring pruning tree and herbaceous varieties will be described in this article, and photos and videos will help novice flower growers carry out the procedure correctly.

Pruning stems after flowering is one of the most important plant care activities. Most often, novice gardeners ask themselves the question: is it possible to prune them immediately after flowering and how exactly to do this? Our article will try to clarify all the incomprehensible points regarding this procedure.

The main thing you need to know is the fact that for some time after flowering is completed, the bush cannot be touched. Thus, we give him the opportunity to accumulate strength and nutrients for the formation of new kidneys.

Peculiarities

It is recommended to completely remove all faded buds for the first three years. However, do not rush to cut the buds as they fade. It is worth waiting until the whole bush re-blooms, and only after that remove the bud along with part of the stem to the first leaf. This procedure will provide more abundant flowering next year (Figure 1).

Note: But, if you want to achieve not an increase in the number of flowers, but an increase in their size, the upper buds should be left.

As for the foliage, it is not recommended to cut it without apparent need, since the green mass plays an important role in circulation. nutrients throughout the plant. In addition, cutting leaves can only be done in autumn in warm weather.

How and when to prune flowers correctly is shown in the video.

rules

Although it is not recommended to prune each flower immediately after it has blossomed, care should be taken to ensure that faded and fallen petals do not cover the bush. Excessive moisture collects under a layer of fallen petals, which causes the development of mold and rot.

Trimming time

Pruning time after flowering is determined separately for each bush. The main guideline is the complete re-flowering of the whole plant. Only after that it is possible to carry out the removal of buds with small parts of the stems.

When to prune peonies for the winter

Preparing plants for winter is a rather responsible event, because if you cut them prematurely, there is a risk of ruining the entire flower. That is why the question of when to prune bushes for the winter is very important.

Here it is worth focusing on appearance bush. If all its stems fall to the ground, you can proceed to the procedure.

Peculiarities

Plants for the winter should be cut at the root. All removed parts of the plant (stems, leaves) should be taken out of the flower garden to prevent the development of pathogenic fungi. Cut bushes must be protected from frost.

rules

There are some rules that will help answer the question of whether it is necessary to prune the bushes after flowering, and how to do it correctly.

For the procedure to be successful, you need to do the following(picture 2):

• Start pruning for the winter after the first frost, when all the stems of the bush fall to the ground.
• The stems of the plant should be cut almost to the root, leaving sprouts above the buds no more than 10 cm high.
• The remaining root system must be carefully covered from the cold with humus or dry peat.

Pruning tree peony in spring

Spring pruning of a tree-like variety of culture - The best way plant care. The procedure involves removing old and broken branches, shoots with dried foliage, as well as shortening healthy shoots to the first living point in order to rejuvenate the entire bush.

Peculiarities

pruning tree plant in early spring is rejuvenating. At the same time, last year's shoots are shortened to a growth point, and the weak ones are cut off so that 10-20 cm of the stem remains from the surface of the earth.

No need to be afraid to prune the plant every spring, because it tolerates this procedure well and quickly becomes covered with new shoots. At the same time, specimens older than 10 years are recommended to be cut at the root.

rules

As in the case of herbaceous varieties, tree pruning is carried out according to certain rules.

Main features include(picture 3):

• Pruning in early spring is aimed at forming a bush and rejuvenating the plant.
• It is also possible to trim frozen shoots late spring.
• In order to obtain larger flowers, it is recommended to remove a third of the formed buds during spring pruning.

It is also necessary to remove the root shoots from the stock if the bush was obtained by grafting.

Pruning a tree peony in spring: video

For those who have never pruned a tree variety of a plant before, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the video, which shows all the details in detail this process.

Pruning tree peony in autumn

prune in autumn tree varieties it is impossible, because next year flowering will occur on last year's shoots, and the bush itself will not look lush and beautiful enough.

Peculiarities

Autumn pruning is sanitary in nature, that is, it is aimed at removing diseased or damaged shoots. If the bush looks healthy, there are no damaged parts or signs of disease, it is better not to touch the plant so that it can accumulate enough strength before winter.

rules

If affected shoots are found on the plant, they must be removed immediately, without waiting for spring. The cut branches are burned, and the plant itself is sprayed with a solution of copper sulfate or potassium permanganate.

The tree-like peony is loved by many gardeners for its lush colorful buds and pleasant aroma. By planting such a shrub in your garden, you can enjoy its picturesqueness for more than one year, but you will learn about the intricacies of growing a tree peony and caring for it from our article.

The expansion of the range of flowers suitable for growing in the garden opens up previously unknown plant varieties. And among them a special place is occupied by tree peonies.

Outwardly, this flower is very similar to the more common herbaceous plant species. Although characteristic features There are quite a few that distinguish it from garden peonies. For example, its height.

Flower growers know that this indicator for an ordinary peony bush with proper care equals one metre. Whereas the crown of the tree reaches a two-meter mark, and therefore the plant looks compact.

General information about the plant

Tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa, lat.) - widely popular flower culture in China. A symbol of wealth and longevity. His medicinal properties were known to people from time immemorial, were used in the treatment of gout, rheumatism, heart disease, headache and other ailments.

But, most importantly, by the abundance of flowers on the bush, as well as their fragrance, tree flower is a real champion.

That is why many gardeners dream of planting more than one flower tree and grow different varieties a wonderful plant, which is also a long-liver. But for this you will have to master agricultural technology and care for flower culture.

Species and popular varieties

The plant belongs to the group hybrid forms different varieties of the genus Paeonia, and at the same time this species is the only one in the Peony family. Outwardly, the botanical peony is a tall deciduous shrub 1.5–2 m high with light brown erect stems that do not die off in autumn. On the contrary, growing every year, they form a bush in the form of a ball, covered with delicate delicate pinnate leaves, ornamentally colored.

single, large flowers, up to 20 cm in size are located on the tops of the shoots. In different varieties of plants, the petals have decorative forms - from simple to terry. Moreover, on the bush of an adult plant, the number of blossoming flowers arrives every year.

Currently, many of its varieties are cultivated, but the basis for all modern variety forms is 4 natural species- Delaway, Lemoine, as well as peonies Yellow and Potanin.

Groups of varieties popular with flower growers:

• Japanese. small size flowers enchant with beauty and lightness;
• Chinese-European. Flowers with a variety of soft pink or maroon shades, large in size, heavy;
• sapphire. The size of the flower can reach 20 cm. The color of the petals is most often pink, the core of the flowers is raspberry. Up to 50 pieces bloom on one bush;
• kiao sisters. Flowers - small, in two shades - soft cream or dark red;
• Green Jade. The original light green color of the flowers. The variety is open for experiments when growing this crop;
• hybrids of Yellow and Delaway flowers. Their petals are painted in exquisite yellow tones.

Cultivation and care

This shrub is a long-liver of the garden. But only if the planting was carried out correctly, and the natural features of the flower were taken into account when growing. In addition, proper care of the plant will allow it to live up to 50 years and all this time decorate the garden with wonderful flowering.

Varieties of peonies

In order for a flower to grow healthy and bloom beautifully, it is necessary to take into account its nature. First of all, this concerns the location of the bush in the garden. It is also important to choose the right seedlings for planting. And in a tree-like peony, they are of two types - with an open root system or a closed one.

Advice: u healthy seedling 2-3 strong buds are formed on the stem, the length of adventitious roots is not less than 5 cm.

In addition, seedlings can be rooted or grafted. They can be distinguished by their roots. Own-rooted have numerous, light brown, long and thin roots, 5–8 mm in diameter. Grafted peonies have thick roots - 4–5 mm. In fact, these are the roots of a stock from a grassy peony.

Both cultures have their merits. As well as specific shortcomings.

Own-rooted peonies are distinguished by:

• longevity (from several tens to hundreds of years);
• abundant flowering for 25–30 years;
• hardiness and frost resistance;
• reproduction by division of the rhizome.

Conditional disadvantages of a flower:

• slow growth during the first 5 years;
• expected flowering - the period from 4 to 6 years.

Grafted seedlings grow faster. During the season, their shoots grow by 20–40 cm. And such a plant will be able to bloom in the first year after planting. Perhaps a little later - on the third. Grafted peonies are planted immediately on permanent place. It is highly undesirable to transplant a flower.

Among the disadvantages of the plant:

• relatively short life expectancy;
• the impossibility of reproduction by dividing the bush.

Advice: for better development grafted flower, you need to regularly free the bush from the shoots that form near it. Usually they dig it up, then to plant it in a new place.

Features of cultivation and basic care

Quite often, a peony that has already taken root well in a permanent place does not bloom.

Obviously there are reasons for this. And the main one is related to the violation of certain mandatory requirements during landing.

Perhaps the rules for caring for the plant are not followed. And everyone who wants to grow the "Imperial Flower" in their garden can be advised to start with a choice suitable place for landing.

Location in the garden.

Peony is a sunny flower, therefore, it will be right to plant it on a site where there is enough sunlight in the morning and evening hours. Optimally - the east side. Moreover, the space around the bush should remain free. These flowers do not like tight spaces, so they are usually planted along garden paths or in a flower bed. Areas with shade big trees or buildings are also not for the peony. In such a place, it may stop blooming or even die.

Watering and loosening the soil.

Norm - about 7 liters of water is poured under a bush twice a month. If there is no rain, intense heat, then you need to water the flower more often. After watering, the soil is loosened to saturate with oxygen. It is not necessary to go deeper than 5 cm. Weeds near the bush must be removed.

Peony top dressing, fertilizer.

For normal development, the flower requires replenishment of nitrogen and potassium. When a peony grows, it needs more nitrogen, and during the budding period, phosphorus and potassium.

After the start of flowering, you need to add nitrogen composition to the complex again. However, if there is too much nitrogen, it can cause the plant to rot.

Important: in order not to burn the roots, combine flower dressing with watering.

Before the dormant period, a mixture of bone meal (200 g) and wood ash (300 g) should be added under the bush.

Pruning and transplant.

As a rule, pruning is tolerated normally, and then new shoots quickly grow.

The purpose of the procedure in different periods:

• anti-aging pruning is performed in early spring. Shoots are shortened to a growth bud, weak shoots are also cut to a level of 10–20 cm above the ground;
• in the spring you need to remove 1/3 of all buds to get large flowers;
• in late spring, pruning of shoots frozen in winter is performed;
• in autumn, shoots with wilted flowers are cut to the upper axillary point.

Advice: formative pruning in the spring should be done before the buds are tied.

When pruning a tree peony, you need to remember that its flowers appear on last year's shoots. Therefore, it is not carried out in the fall.

To rejuvenate bushes older than 10 years, they are cut under the stump. And in grafted peonies, you need to cut off the basal shoots so that the bush can develop freely.

Peony transplant- a painful process, and the plant may need to recover long years. But, if there is still a need for it, then you need to try to carefully dig a bush with a clod of earth, trying not to damage the roots of the plant. If there is a suspicion that something is wrong with the root system, then the earth is washed off with a stream of water. After inspection, damaged ones are removed and too long roots are shortened. Sections are treated with a 1% solution of potassium permanganate, sprinkled with crushed coal.

Preparing for winter.

Peony bushes are cold-resistant, but the fact is that spring thaws and the frosts that replaced them can do more harm to them. So:

• in October, the shoots are tied, mulched with peat trunk circle;
• when cold weather sets in, the plant is covered with spruce branches, foliage, a thick layer of crushed bark. Possibly jute bags.

Growing from seed

A plant grown from seeds, at a very favorable conditions and proper care, begins to bloom in the fifth or sixth year after planting. But, growing a peony from seeds is a rather difficult way. Especially due to the fact that the seeds of a tree peony have an underdeveloped embryo. And from long storage, the germination of seeds is almost zero. Therefore, the germination of seedlings becomes possible only with the help of such a procedure as stratification (a technique that accelerates seed germination).

Spring precipitation and care

Planting, as the timing of when it is best to do this, depends on the type of seedling. Namely, a plant with a closed root system (ZKS) can be planted at any time. For example, a grafted peony with ZKS planted in the spring will bloom in the same season.

If you purchased a flower with an open root system (OCS), its roots can be bare or placed in the substrate, then it is better to plant the seedling in a permanent place in August - September.

Peony OKS, bought in winter or spring, experts advise planting until autumn in a container so that it forms necessary for a flower sucking small roots. For this, a container with a volume of 5 liters, filled with soil, and with holes for removing excess water is suitable.

Until spring, the peony should be in a room with a temperature slightly above 0 ° C. For example, on the loggia or in the cellar. It needs to be watered occasionally to keep the soil from drying out. During this time, the suction roots grow at the flower.

If the plant has already begun to grow, then when it reaches 15–20 cm, the container is transferred to a bright but cool place. The leaves that appear are sprayed with Ferovit. With the beginning of the summer season, seedlings in a container are placed in a cool and draft-free corner of the garden in order to plant a young peony in a permanent place in August - September.

How to care for a peony in spring

A flower culture with an open root system without a pot can be planted in a permanent place in the garden immediately after purchase in the spring. For seedlings with ZKS, planting dates are not so important. They are planted both in spring and summer. The landing procedure consists of specific steps:

• a cone-shaped pit is prepared 2 weeks before planting a peony so that the soil settles. The width of the pit is 70–75 cm, the depth is 65–80 cm;
• a drainage layer up to 30 cm thick is laid at the bottom of the landing pit, consisting of gravel, expanded clay or sand;
• rotted manure is laid out on top of the drainage. soil mixture prepared from equal parts land ( upper layer), peat, humus. And also with the addition of 140–210 g of superphosphate and 310–390 g of bone meal or wood ash. The components are mixed, fall asleep in a pit;
• spread the roots of the seedling, make sure that the renewal buds on the root collar are at ground level.

After planting the flower, pour water over the pit, add earth (no more than 3-4 cm over the renewal buds), lightly tamp.

Basic care of the plant after planting is simple. So, after planting a flower for two years, it does not particularly need care. In the third year, in early spring, it is fed with bone meal. Twice a week, the bush needs to be watered with infusion of ash.

The first two weeks after planting, the seedling is watered every 2-3 days. In the future, 1 time in 14 days, 7-8 liters of water are poured under the bush. During drought - 11–16 liters. The next day after watering, the soil is loosened so that oxygen enters the roots.

Conclusion

In order for a tree-like peony to please with the exquisite beauty of flowers, its owners will have to learn the basic rules of agricultural cultivation of a plant, as well as learn how to care for an amazing flower culture.

Tree peony bushes, large carved leaves and delicate flowers of which are very decorative, can be a wonderful decoration for any country or personal plot. The homeland of the plant is China, in Europe it began to be cultivated at the end of the 18th century. Breeders bred over 500 hybrid varieties semi-shrub peony, most of them are found only in the southwestern regions of China.

The tree-like peony is a deciduous shrub 1.5-2 m high. The bushes of the plant have a hemispherical shape, doubly pinnate leaves are located on upright light brown stems. Shoots (unlike the vegetative parts of a grassy peony) do not die off with the advent of cold weather, but give an annual increase. The flowers are large - reach 12-20 cm in diameter, can be simple, double or semi-double, have a variety of colors from white to purple.

There are varieties of tree-like peonies and with two-color coloring of inflorescences. The number of flowers increases with the age of the plant, averaging 30-70 per season. Flowering occurs 2 weeks earlier than that of a grassy peony. Usually it lasts 14 days, in cool weather, the flowers delight with their beauty for 3 weeks. The plant is unpretentious, rarely affected by diseases.

Common varieties

Among the hybrid varieties of tree peonies, the following groups are distinguished:

1. Chinese-European. It differs in the size of flowers (up to 25 cm in diameter), and increased doubleness. Flower color varies from various shades pink to rich color fuchsia.
2. Japanese. The flowers on the bushes are light, simple or semi-double. A special method of propagation of varieties of this group is the grafting of cuttings to the roots. herbaceous peonies provides high frost resistance of plants.
3. Hybrids of Yellow and Delaway peonies - up to 4 buds are tied on each shoot, flowers are yellow in color, often with a bright red spot in the middle. The diameter of the inflorescences reaches 4-10 cm. Especially valuable for decorative design garden are P. suffruticosa hybrids with powerful elongated leaves and large bright flowers.

The photo shows the most popular varieties of tree peony:

• • « Scarlet Sails». early flowering, inflorescences are lush, have a rich purple color. The flowers reach a diameter of 16 cm. The variety "Scarlet Sails" is frost-resistant, grows better on fertile, permeable soils with an alkaline environment.
  • Tree peony "Red Giant". Forms compact bushes with short stems. Flowering begins later than other varieties. The shape of the inflorescences is coronet, the color is scarlet. In diameter, the flowers reach 16 cm, in height - 7 cm.

"Dragon Flowers"
"The scent of a lily"

• • "The scent of a lily". The plant forms tall bushes with large quantity white flowers with shiny petals. The variety got its name due to the great similarity of the smell of its flowers with the aroma of lilies.
  • Tree peony "Sapphire". Forms bushes with a maximum height of 1 m 20 cm. Semi-double flowers with purple stripes and yellow stamens in the center. Abundantly flowering variety, in the northern regions with severe frosts in winter time needs shelter.

• • "White Crystal". Forms powerful bushes that bloom with dazzling white flowers. The shape of the inflorescences is spherical, the diameter reaches 16 cm.
  • Tree peony "Dragon Flowers". The height of the plant reaches 1.5 m. The flowers may have a crimson or purple color, depending on the acidity of the soil.
  • "Silk veil". Low-growing bushes up to 120 cm tall. The flowers are large, white with a burgundy center and wavy edges of the petals.

• Peony "Gemini". Differs in powerful growth, an abundance of purple-red semi-double inflorescences. Flowers 14 cm in diameter, 6 cm high.

"Sapphire"
"Silk veil"

Planting tree peonies

Before boarding, take Special attention selection of a suitable place on the site, selection of seedlings, soil preparation. Tree peonies have a significant life expectancy - in some specimens it is 100 years. They are not recommended to be transplanted from one place to another, as the adaptation period takes long time and is accompanied by a slowdown in development and weak flowering of the plant.

Watering plants

A tree peony does not require too frequent watering - it is enough to moisten the ground once every 2 weeks, pouring 7 liters under a bush. warm settled water. In very hot weather you can double the frequency of watering. At the end of August, the plants stop watering. After each moistening, the earth should be loosened, weeds should be removed, and the soil surface around the trunk should be mulched.

Feeding

Regular feeding helps to properly care for a tree peony. In the first year of life with a properly fueled landing pit peony does not need fertilizer.

At an older age, peonies should be fertilized three times a season - in the spring during bud break, flower bud formation and at the end of flowering. For the first two dressings, nitrophoska is used - it is enough to take 100 g of the drug per bush. For the third time, it is better to feed peonies with superphosphate, the recommended amount of fertilizer per plant is 30 g. Mineral fertilizers it can be replaced with wood ash, compost, it is undesirable to make preparations containing a lot of nitrogen - such bushes are more often affected by fungal diseases.

seasonal care

Plants protect from frost, pests. Tree-like peonies are frost-resistant, but in cold, snowless winters, their branches can freeze slightly. To protect wintering kidneys from damage will allow covering with special nonwoven fabric, burlap, spruce branches. Bushes are pruned in the spring. Throughout the entire growing season, they are treated with fungicides, protecting them from damage by pathogens.

pruning

Every spring, sanitary pruning of bushes should be carried out, removing dry and damaged stems. Healthy twigs do not need to be touched - they will develop from their buds flower buds. The first opened bud must be cut off to get more lush bloom the rest. In preparation for winter, only diseased shoots are removed from the bush. Once every 20 years, a tree peony is rejuvenated by completely cutting off all the stems.

Treatment

Peonies can be affected by fungal diseases, the most dangerous of which is gray rot. Planting bushes in well-lit places, excluding stagnation of moisture in the soil, its oversaturation with nitrogen allows you to prevent infection with this disease. When signs of disease appear, all affected stems should be cut and burned. Bushes are sprayed with a solution of copper-containing preparations.

When the roots are affected, the diseased parts are removed, the sections are smeared with a solution of copper sulfate and sprinkled with powdered charcoal. When a peony is diseased with brown spotting, the diseased stems are destroyed, the remaining ones are sprayed with 1% Bordeaux liquid.

Tree peonies in landscape design

The high decorativeness of the tree-like peony determines its relevance in the creation of flower beds, Japanese gardens, the design of the territory of various institutions and industrial enterprises. The location of individual bushes, their combination with other objects, the selection of varieties should be made at the design stage landscape design.

Tree-like peonies are ideal for decorating a city park, the territory of a sanatorium, a school, a personal plot. They can be planted in a group or singly, placed along a path or fence. Tree peony bushes go well with conifers, look beautiful along the edges of the lawn or in the background of the rabatka. And you can find out about other types and varieties of peonies.

A tree-like peony, planting and caring for which is not very difficult, many gardeners would like to have in their garden. But how to plant it perennial so that it pleases you with its flowering for more than a dozen years? And does it need to be fertilized?

Tree peony, planting and caring for it in the garden

These flowers have always been popular due to their decorative effect: their large elegant flowers, carved leaves and straight stems look great next to any plants. So the plant is great for decorating both the parterre zone and the background of the flower garden.

Surprisingly, this shrub is a long-liver of the garden. With proper care, this plant can delight you with its flowering for about fifty years. But the most important thing is to choose the right place for it. This is light-loving plants, but do not like drafts, wind and direct sunlight. Therefore, they need to be planted where there will be light partial shade and there will be no wind. In addition, peonies do not like stagnant water in the soil.

In China, tree-like peonies grow, which are 500 years old. They are protected by law as historical monuments.

This is due to the fact that in wild nature they grow on mountain slopes or in deciduous forests. Therefore, if you have heavy soils on the site, you definitely need to organize good drainage and add bone meal, lime or superphosphate to the soil. Would you like to plant several plants side by side? Make sure that the distance between them is at least one and a half meters.

Planting a tree peony in spring

You can plant a flower both in autumn and in spring. But due to the fact that most of these plants are imported to us from China, the bulk of them enter our country in the spring. These plants are sold with an open root system, so that immediately after purchase they can be planted in a flower bed.

First you need to prepare a pit for planting, the depth of which should be about 70 centimeters. At the bottom of the pit, drainage should be made of sand, expanded clay or gravel (the thickness of the gravel layer should be about 30 centimeters). In acidic soil, you can add thirty grams of lime.

Having prepared the pit, you can start planting: the seedling should be installed in the pit with straightened roots, and its neck should be at the level of the soil. After planting, the ground around the peony should be lightly tamped and watered well.

So, the whole landing can be divided into several stages:

1. Choose a location that is sunny and draft-free.
2. Preparation of a well slightly larger than root system bush.
3. Drainage.
4. Top dressing, in equal proportions superphosphate (can be replaced with ash), dolomite flour and potassium sulfate, a glass.
5. The introduction of compost must be mixed with the soil.
6. Planting so that the root neck is at the level of the soil surface.
7. Watering.
8. Mulching with humus.

Proper care of tree peony

Within two years after planting, the flower will not require any special care, but in the third year it will have to be fed with bone meal in early spring (it needs about 350 grams per bush). You can also water the bushes a couple of times a week with infusion of ash. And in the middle of autumn, after the leaves fall, peat must be mulched around the bush.

To make it more convenient, you can divide the fertilizer application into stages, but remember, this is only for bushes whose age is 3 years or more:

• In early spring, nitrophoska is well suited for top dressing, 100 grams per bush, just when young shoots begin to grow.
• The same amount of nitrophoska will go as a fertilizer, but already when the buds begin to swell.
• After flowering, it is required to add superphosphate or wood ash, a glass on a bush.

All fertilizers should be applied not before watering, but after, so there will be less chance of burns on the roots.

Entering a large amount nitrogen fertilizers under the bushes can provoke the appearance of gray rot, from which the plant can die. So it's best to keep them to a minimum or not at all.

Watering is required not too frequent but good. Once every two weeks, 7-8 liters of water are poured under the bush. In a drought, you need to water more often, and even better after watering, mulch the soil around the bush.

Shelter tree peonies for the winter

Before the onset of frost, in our region this is mid-late October, the bushes are neatly tied together, in no case do you need to tighten it strongly so as not to damage the shoots. The soil is mulched with peat and covered with spruce branches.

The bushes themselves take cover when the temperature becomes constantly minus, so that they do not become hot in the shelter. To do this, the bushes are tied with burlap or non-woven material and again covered with spruce branches from above.

How to prune a tree peony

In the spring, until the plant wakes up and grows, you need to remove all old, broken branches. In old-timer bushes, which are 20 years old, you can rejuvenate, cut out all the shoots completely, to the base. So you stimulate new adnexal buds to awaken.

If you cut off enough mature bushes in the spring to the first, uppermost sinus, then you can achieve more lush and intense flowering.

Reproduction of a tree peony

Shrubs reproduce in several ways:

Transplanting tree peonies

Tree peonies do not like transplantation. Sometimes they do not bloom then for several years, and many simply die. Therefore, this measure is rather forced.

In order to transplant a peony to a new place, you need to try to remove it from the ground without damaging the roots, preferably with a large lump. Then shake off the earth a little with your hands, wash off the remnants from the hose.

All slices of divisions, if you are going to divide the bush, are processed carefully:

1. A solution of potassium permanganate, dark cherry color.
2. Charcoal.
3. In a solution of clay mash.

Roots prepared in this way will be less susceptible to diseases and will take root faster in a new place.

Diseases and pests of tree peonies

The tree-like peony practically does not get sick and does not suffer from the invasion of pests. It happens on newly transplanted, still weak bushes, foci of gray rot appear.

In such cases, it is necessary to cut off all diseased shoots and burn them, and spray the bush itself. blue vitriol 6 %.

To prevent brown spotting, plants are treated with Bordeaux mixture.

Do you want to create an oasis of beauty in the garden by decorating showy plant gazebo or mixborder? Then do not be afraid to plant a tree peony on your site.

Detailed agricultural technology for growing a tree peony, video