A beautiful peony flower is a fairly unpretentious plant that can bloom and yet not require transplantation until ten years. However, there are cases when the flower still needs to be transplanted. If you want to propagate a plant or rejuvenate it, you should know when it's best to transplant treelike peonies and how to do it correctly.
The timing of pion transplantation
Ideal for paunch transplantation is the beginning of autumn. At the end of August - beginning of September it is still warm enough, and the plants have already faded. Therefore, peonies will painlessly get accustomed and the next summer their flowering bushes will become an ornament of your garden. If you for some reason did not have time to transplant peonies in the fall, you can do it in the spring. However, during the spring transplant, the pion bushes will not blossom this summer, and the heat will be much more difficult for them to bear.
How to separate a peony bush?
Peony - a perennial plant, and for several years growing in one place it can turn into a big bush, which will have to be divided. As a rule, in order to transplant an old peony bush, you must first cut off the stems of the plant. Then the bush is digged with a shovel and carefully taken out together with an earthen lump. Now the earth can be shaken off from the roots or washed off with water. In order to divide a very large rhizome, one must drive a stake into its middle, and then divide the root into parts. Simultaneously check and discard decayed or damaged roots. And the whole should be cut off, leaving about 20 cm.
How to transplant a peony bush?
Peonies love a sunny, sheltered place from the winds. Near the house to plant peonies is undesirable in order to avoid overheating of the plant. Do not tolerate peonies and wet wetlands, so on a site with a high level of groundwater should be planted peonies on the elevations. To plant a pion, you should dig a hole 70 cm deep, and the distance between the pion bushes should be at least 90 cm. At the bottom of the landing pit is laid a layer of drainage in the form of small stones and broken bricks and part of the earth mixture. Then the root of the pion is established and the rest of the earth is poured. Gently tamp the earth around the bush and water with water.
The depth of planting the peony is extremely important: it is believed that in light soils, the buds of the plant should be buried 7 cm deep into the earth, and on the heavy ones - no deeper than 5 cm. If the root is planted very deeply, then your peony does not bloom, and in case of too small planting can suffer in winter frosts.
How to transplant peonies in the spring?
If you decide to transplant the peony in the spring, then it should be done quickly in order to have time before the beginning of the vegetation. Sharing at this time is not recommended. It is necessary to transplant the peony with an earthen lump, without washing the roots. In a pit with a nutrient mixture, you can put compost and mineral fertilizer, but exclude fresh organic. Peony bush should be carefully dug from all sides and immediately planted in a prepared pit.
In the summer, special attention should be paid to the pi-on bushes transplanted in the spring: it is abundantly watered in drought, snapping off the first buds. If you see that the peonies transplanted in the spring "do not like" in the new place, then in the fall
No matter how neatly you transplanted peonies in the spring, his fragile roots break off anyway. Do not rush to throw them away. Sprinkle the edges of such roots with charcoal, or treat them with a growth stimulant , and then plant them on a bed of nutrient soil. Regularly water the peonies. In autumn, transplant them to a permanent place.
As you can see, the time when to plant peonies in the garden, you can choose any, and with sufficient care these beautiful fragrant flowers will perfectly bloom and delight you.