How And When To Replant Peonies After Flowering?

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Peonies are the favorite flowers of many summer residents, because they are able to decorate with their luxurious flowering even an unremarkable area. And in order for them to please the eye as long as possible, they need to be transplanted from time to time - this approach will allow them to achieve their best growth and flowering. How to do this correctly and, most importantly, when exactly is the best time to start transplanting your favorite peonies?

When is the best time to replant peonies?

The most optimal time for transplanting peonies is the end of August or mid-September. In this case, the first transplant, ideally, should be done no earlier than four or five years after planting the peonies - in this case, the plots will delight you with better growth and more abundant flowering. If the bushes began to hurt more often and bloom much worse, then after ten or twelve years they must be completely transplanted to a new place.

Immediately before dividing the bushes, the stalks are cut off from them, while the height of the cuts should be no more and no less than ten to fifteen centimeters from the soil level. When cutting off the stems, and then digging out the bushes, you should take special care - despite the fact that adult flower bushes are quite hard and durable, the roots and buds on them are very fragile, therefore, if handled carelessly, they can be easily damaged.

Experienced summer residents recommend letting the dug out bushes lie in the shade for three to six hours - this approach will help the roots and rhizomes become more flexible (in this case, they will break less when dividing).

How to divide peonies to be transplanted?

The best plots are considered to be parts of flower bushes that have three to five roots and the same number of eyes. By the way, the roots are subsequently shortened to ten to twelve centimeters.

In order for the wounds obtained by the peonies during division to be minimal, the sections must be made strictly across. And when dividing, old roots should be cut off altogether, after which all plots are allowed to lie down in dry, shaded places throughout the day.

We transplant peonies

The next step is to plant the prepared plots in specially designed pits. In this case, the pits for their planting should be prepared in advance, about two to three weeks. If this is not possible, you need to thoroughly tamp the ground in the freshly dug holes with your hands, and then pour two buckets of water into each of them. And as soon as the water is completely absorbed, a small amount of garden soil is poured into all the pits.

Then, with the help of a scoop, recesses are made in the pits, trying to make sure that their size is identical to the size of the plots. Having poured tiny mounds of earth at the very bottom of each depression, plots are immediately fixed in them, while on heavy soils, the upper bud should be three to five centimeters below the soil surface, and on light soils - by five to seven centimeters. If you do not observe the required planting depth, you may not wait for the flowering of the bushes. By the way, for the same reason, they try to compact the soil in advance - this will guarantee that subsequently the planting depth of the plots will remain unchanged.

The roots of the planted plots are covered with soil, after which they gently press the soil with their hands, trying not to damage the buds with roots. Then each bush should be watered (the water consumption should be about five liters for each plot), and after the water is absorbed, the soil is thoroughly tamped again. And only then the remaining parts of the pits are filled in, in which the upper sections of the peonies with eyes are located. You can simply fill the holes with sand, combined with charcoal in a ratio of 3: 1, and then thoroughly water them with one or two liters of water, or you can use the fertile soil prepared in advance, which does not have to be watered.

And as soon as all the peonies are transplanted, the soil surface is mulched with dried earth or peat. As you can see, transplanting peonies is not so difficult - even a novice summer resident can easily cope with this task!