The magnificent peony in China has long been a symbol of beauty and was called the imperial flower. Peonies adorn Chinese vases, paintings and household items. Now there are more than 30 types of plants. Tree-like peony - a bush 1-1.5 m high with loose large leaves. The plant is very abundantly flowering, on the bush at the same time can blossom 30 - 50 flowers. The flowers are very large with a bright variety of colors: white, crimson, pink, lilac, burgundy, yellow. There are varieties, blooming beautiful double flowers. Usually the peony bloom does not exceed two weeks, but a bush with rich green large leaves is an adornment of a garden or a country house site.
Tree-like peonies occupy a special place in the design of the garden. Planting a tree-like peony can occupy various areas: located under the windows of the house or around the perimeter of the garden, single bushes can be planted, undersized flowers are used in alpine slides, curbs.
Planting and care for treelike pion
When going to plant flowers in your own garden, keep in mind that although care for the tree-like peony is not complicated, but since the plant will grow for many years in one place, one should take into account its predilections. Peony - a light-loving plant, on this basis, choose a well-lit or slightly shaded area. Take care of the good drainage, since the plant does not like the stagnation of moisture in the root system. At the bottom of a fairly large pit (approximately 70x70 cm in size), create a layer of soil mixed with compost or manure. That the bush has better begun, and peonies well bloomed and were healthy, add a little complex fertilizer and 1 spoon of copper vitriol. The plant does not like acid soils, so if in your area this type of soil, mix a glass of slaked lime in the ground.
The admirers of this remarkably beautiful flower have a natural question, how to take care of a tree-like pion, so that it develops well and flourishes abundantly?
Peony requires regular loosening and weeding. Phosphate-potassium fertilizers are introduced into the soil in May. In spring and before the blossoming of a tree-like peony it is necessary to water it abundantly and abundantly. In May, when buds are awakened, it is necessary to trim the stems of a tree-like pion to the first living kidney. At the end of autumn, flowers are covered with burlap or lapnika, previously tied up shoots (they can not be bent down - they will break!)
Reproduction of a tree-like pion
Reproduction of the pion by seeds and cuttings is extremely difficult. It is best to apply the division of the bush. The peonies reaching 5 - 6 years of age share, wash the soil off the roots, cut the rhizome, so that in each part there are at least 2 shoots. The places of cuts are sprinkled with charcoal dust.
Diseases of treelike peonies
The plant is resistant to diseases and pests, usually weakened only weakened bushes. Sometimes the flower suffers from gray rot . To get rid of the damage, the peony is sprayed with a 0.6% solution of copper sulfate or a 0.3% solution of potassium permanganate. Strongly affected bushes are burned. If the leaves of the plant are covered with brown spots, they are torn off and destroyed. The flower is sprayed with 1% Bordeaux liquid.
Why does not the tree-like peony blossom?
Sometimes gardeners are puzzled because of the lack of flowers in healthy-looking bushes. Most often this is due to lack of watering, old bush, incorrect preparation of a landing site (absent
Council of gardeners
If you want the plant to please you with its color for as long as possible, plant different types of peonies - there is some time interval in the periods of their flowering. And when some species of the peony will blossom, other varieties of it will be covered with color.