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Peonies - Planting, Staking and Deadheading
by Evelyn Fielding
Description: Expert tips for planting and caring for peonies in your garden.
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Peonies are classic garden perennials, prized for their handsome foliage, longevity and huge blooms in late spring. Their fragrant and long-lasting blooms grace your home on the bush and when cut. They're deer and drought resistant, too. Lovely!
How to Plant
If the roots of your new plants seem dry at all, soak them overnight in a bucket of plain water.
Plant in well-drained soil, three feet apart. Dig a hole at least eighteen inches deep and twenty-four inches wide. Mix with the soil a pound of bone meal and generous amounts of peat moss, compost, or well-rotted manure. (Never use fresh manure; you'll burn your plants to death.) Put this mixture around the root ball and pat snugly into place. Water well to settle thoroughly.
Staking and Deadheading
The tall, double hybrid peonies will need staking! If you don't like this job, choose the single flower varieties.
Put out your hoops or supports very early in the spring, just as the new leaves emerge. Peonies grow very fast. One very attractive way to support any height stem is to place four bamboo stakes in the ground at the four corners of the plant. Then, weave garden twine in a criss-cross pattern through the stems and leaves to support the plant and its blooms.
Please deadhead your peonies when the blooms fade! Better yet, cut the blooms before they fade and enjoy them on your dining room table. Cut well back into the plant so you don't see the tips. The plant won't make anymore blooms, but the foliage is very attractive all summer and into the fall.
Peonies aren't demanding. A little TLC and you'll have many years of enjoyment.
For more information on Peonies, check my Author Profile for two additional articles on 3 Peony Problems and Getting Peonies Ready for Winter. Thanks for stopping by!
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