Peony is beautiful and, with a rather unpretentious garden plant. With the right content, such a culture is able to grow in one place dozens of years, pleaseing the eye with lush bright buds. In this article, we will tell you that you need to know about planting a tree peony and about leaving him.
Features of planting tree peonies
Choose a place for flower beds
So that the plant felt comfortable in your garden, first of all, you need to accommodively treat the choice of places where the flowers will grow. Choosing a territory for planting tree peonies, consider the following nuances:
- the place should not be on the constant wind;
- try to choose areas with moderate shadensity;
- near large shrubs, trees or buildings, peonies will be closely, therefore provide plants sufficient space;
- be sure to clean the soil from weeds.
What you need to know before boarding bushes
Some gardeners adhere to the opinions that spring is ideal for planting culture. However, it is much less risky to plant flowers in autumn. Spring - a period of unpredictable frosts, which actually actually act on the kidney of peony, but also on the whole plant as a whole.
If you decide to grow by the cultivation of tree peonies, you also need to consider that this culture reacts very badly to a transplant. On one flowerbed, tens of years can grow on one club, so without extreme need you should not tolerate it from place to place. If you responsibly react to the choice of a plot under the flower leaf and will be good to care for flowers - you can hardly have a change in transplant.
As for the soil, peonies prefer loose, fertile soil with an alkaline composition. This culture also loves moisture, but reacts poorly to stagnation near the roots. Therefore, when planting seedlings, you should necessarily provide for good soil drainage.
Now let's talk about the subtleties of seedlings. When you buy a trembling of a tree peony, find out the following points:
- as far as the culture is frost resistant and how it takes on in that climate, where she will have to grow;
- which height reaches the peony bus;
- what color and size of its buds.
The best option is to be seedlings of 20-25 cm in size, having 2-3 obsessive processes. The roots of the shoots should look strong and healthy, and on each branch there must be unacceptable kidneys.
The process of planting a tree peony
Consider in more detail all stages of planting this culture:
- Deciding with a place for a bush, dig in the ground a pit size of about 50x50 cm or a little more.
- At the bottom of the pit to put the material layer, which will serve as the soil drainage. It can be sand, gravel, crushed stone, fragments of bricks, etc.
- Take 1 cup of superphosphate, dolomite flour and potassium sulfate. Mix these fertilizers with half the soil. Fill the pit until the middle and a little confuse the soil.
- The second part of the earth is connected with 2 compost buckets. Pass the mixture into the recess, leaving a little space for a seedling.
- Plant peony processes so that the root cervix seedlings was on the same level with the surface of the soil. Pour the land around the plant with water, and then completely pour the pit with the soil.
- The last stage - the mulching of the bush by humus. Note that it is extremely undesirable to use for mulching a sawdust, as this can provoke the development of some diseases.
Care rules for tree peonies
Watering plants
The tree-like peony does not need frequent irrigation. It can be watered 1-2 times a month depending on weather conditions. The amount of water by one watering is approximately 6-7 liters. After irrigation, it should be slightly jammed the soil near the bush, simultaneously removing sprouted weeds. As a rule, tree peonies are watered in the first months of the summer, and in August, moisturizing is stopped.
Flower feeding fertilizers
The first three years of life, the plant needs extracurricular feeding. For this, 40 g of urea and mineral fertilizers are divorced in 10 liters of water, and after sprayed a bush after irrigation.
Peonies older than three years face three times a year:
- The first time the plant feed the early spring, while the bush releases young shoots. A nitroposka is used as a fertilizer in an amount of 100 g per bus.
- During the swelling of the kidney comes the time of the second feeding. It is also carried out by nitroposka, the amount of fertilizer does not change.
- When the peonies are swinging, they can be fired for the third time. For this purpose, 30 g of superphosphate for each bush is used.
A good fertilizer for tree peonies is bone flour, ash or humus. Acid substances, as well as nitrogen fertilizers, is not recommended.
Tree peony, photo:
Winter shelter
Despite the fact that the tree-like pion is considered a frost-resistant culture, in particularly unfavorable climatic conditions, the plant needs to be protected. Preparation for winter should be started back in October. At the end of the month, the shoots of the plant neatly bind, and the soil near the trunk is molded or peat. With the arrival of the first frosts, the bush must be hidden. For this purpose, bags or spruce laps.
With the onset of spring, when the kidneys swell on the shoots, the bushes are released from shelter. Broken branches are removed, and healthy shocked one third. If you fulfill these conditions, the flowers of the tree peony will be large and beautiful, and the plant itself is strong and healthy.
Fighting diseases and pests
It cannot be said that the tree peonies are too often ill, but they are still susceptible to some fungal diseases. The most common disease is gray rot. It arises if the bush grows in the too shaded place where an excessive amount of moisture is stared in the soil. The development of gray rotes also contributes to the overabundance of nitrogen in the soil. If you notice a similar disease on your colors, cut the stalks from the bush and burn them. Then prepare the heatman's solution at the rate of 3 g of substance on 10 liters of water, or use a 0.7% solution of copper sulfate. Spray healthy stems cooked liquid.
Gray rot, the roots of old bushes are often exposed. If such a problem occurs, cut patients, sections of sections to treat 1% copper sulfate solution, and then sprinkle with chopped wood coal.
On tree peonies, brown spot can sometimes appear. In this case, the affected leaves and stems should also trim and burn, and the bushes to treat 1% Bordeaux mixture.
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