The tree-like peony loves many gardeners for lush colorful buds and pleasant aroma. Putting such a shrub in his garden, you can enjoy his painting not one year, but about the intricacies of growing a tree peony and care for him you will learn from our article.
Plant Description
The tree-like peony is a shrub culture that does not need to plant annually. His shoots are gradually covered with a weird bark, in connection with which the plant perfectly transfers the winter. In the height of the peony stems can grow up to 2 meters, but it takes a fairly large amount of time, at least a pair of decades. Some varieties of tree peony differ also and very interesting decorative foliage, which can have a saturated purple tint.
The most attractive part of the culture is its large terry buds, the diameter of which in many cases reaches 25-30 cm. The plant of this type, in contrast to the herbaceous analog, can bloom the yellow shade buton. In general, the color range of petals is quite extensive and represented by pink, red, purple, greenish-white, lilac and other shades. The flowering period of the tree culture begins slightly earlier than the herbaceous peony, and continues within 2-3 weeks.
The advantage of such a plant is that it can exist on one site for many years, without needing to transplant and turning the wintering well. In terms of leaving, peonies are also not too whimpical and not susceptible to diseases. But the transplants are perceived very badly, so you need to choose the right place in the garden for them and forever.
In the spring, the tree-like peony wakes up after wintering and is not at the best view, looks lifeless and faded. But with the arrival of warm weather, the plant is changing, and even when extincting perennial shoots, Peony will still release new kidneys, of which young piglers will quickly develop. Nevertheless, the movement of the culture is better not allowed and to cover it for the winter as it should. The plant under the action of strong frosts, of course, will not die, but during the next two years it will simply not bloom.
Hybrid varieties are considered the most capricious. They have high decorative qualities, but are more weak than their wild ancestors.
Landing a tree peony
Sut the tree-like peony accepted in August or in September, pre-picked up for him the most suitable place in the garden. Please note that the plant for the plant you choose once for many years, so it should be comfortable there. This culture loves solar places and hills, so it is better to plant it in an open territory, next to which there are no high splashing trees or large buildings.
Before planting a tree-like peony, it is important to take care of the soil composition. The plant loves sublibious soils, but if there is ground and sandy land on your household plot, it should be mixed with a turder, peat, clay and humus. Suglink can also be made somewhat lighter and porous by adding a small amount of sand.
Pay attention to the depth of the aquifer. If the water is lowered deeply, to land, dig a hole, a diameter and depth reaching about 70 cm. In the pit it is necessary to equip drainage, for which sand, brick, gravel, are used. The thickness of the drainage layer should be about 30 cm.
The tree-like peony does not like acidic soils, and if in your garden, the land is just such, mix it with lime or ash. Pour into the prepared hole about 300 g of lime, add the soil, immerse the roots of the plant into the recess, cover and confuse a little. Usefully pour the landing site. Make sure that the root cervix and the surface of the soil are on the same level. If you are set not alone, but some bushes, observe the distance between them at least 2 m.
Care for tree peony
Watering and feeding plants
The basis of the care of any plant is the right watering. For a tree peony, the frequency of irrigation should be at least 2 times a month, but in this matter it is better to also focus on the weather. In drought and heat, the plant can be launched more often, just to do it in the morning or in the evening, so that the scorching sun leaves burns on the petals and leaves. On one bush, about 7 liters of water should be consumed during watering. By the end of August, the frequency of procedures should be gradually cutting and stopped at all.
Periodically, the land around the bushes needs to loosen, so that the roots have access to oxygen. The soil loosen after a couple of days after irrigation, making the grooves with a depth of about 5 cm. Near the rolling circle you can pour a layer of humus, which will keep moisture.
With the cultivation of a tree peony, it is necessary to carry out feeding. This culture loves potassium and nitrogen most of all. Nitrogen fertilizers are better to enter into the soil at the beginning of the growing season, and when the PION will release floral kidneys, it must be periodically feeding with phosphorus-potassium compositions. Feeling the soil stop when the growing season is over. Care must be taken with nitric fertilizers, since the oversuetting of such a substance can lead to the formation of sulfur rot. The feeders make it together with water in the process of irrigation.
Pyon tree pink, photo:
Crimping and Culture Transplantation
At the beginning of the spring, even before the beginning of the growing season, the trimming of a tree peony is triggered, while removing certain shoots, broken and sick branches. Healthy processes are simply shortened by 10 cm. Each decade is also not bad to carry out a rejuvenating trimming, the combing branches is almost under the root. Sut off shoots to the top kidney, you will provide a plant good and rich bloom.
The tree peonies are very poorly transferred to a new place, and after such a procedure can take off for quite a long time, no buds at all in general. If you for some reason you need to transfer a bush to a new place, try to dig it very carefully and carefully, without damaging the roots. Remove the plant from the soil along with the earthen room and wash off the soil under the jet of water. Then carefully inspect the roots, reveal the fallen and sore sections, cut them and treat the damage to the manganese solution. Seeing the roots and sprinkle with the torment.
The reproduction of a tree peony
Culture can be multiplied by several methods: stalling, grooves or root division. Rhizome division is a simple and affordable way. To implement it, the bush dig and the ground and share the root system into several parts so that each of them has several renewal kidneys. These decenes are submerged into an aqueous clay solution, after which they are removed and planted in advanced pits. This method is best used for plants whose age exceeds 5 years. The procedure is carried out at the end of summer, after which the young shrubs are taking care of the usual way.
In the middle of summer, you can breed a culture with cuttings. To do this, choose a strong and healthy bush, cut off on it, where there are 1 kidney and 1 sheet. Before immersing the seedling of a tree peony into the ground, the sheet is cut half. After that, the cuttings are swapped in a mixture of sand and peat about 2 cm in depth. Then the seedlings are covered with polyethylene and spent from time to time, and also spray with water. After a couple of months, the processed the processes in separate people and leave to grow before the onset of spring. With the arrival of heat, the cuttings are transferred to the open soil.
In some cases, the peonies will deteriorate to be laid. This method is quite long and takes at least a couple of years. Challenges are chosen on the mother's bush in the late spring, giving preference to the strongest shoots. Each branch makes a small incision on the other side, which is turned to the ground, is treated with a special composition that stimulates growth and root formation, after which the escape escape is checked. Waterproofs are watered as often as possible. In the fall, shoots should let the roots, after which they can be completely cut off from the main plant and transplant to another place.
If the peonies are bred in large quantities, then preferring the method of reproduction "heel", which is considered the most effective. On the roots of ordinary herbaceous peony make vaccinations using a tree of tree culture as cuttings. The lower part of the branch is sharpened and inserted with a sharp edge in the rhizome of herbaceous peony. The place of connecting two plants is wrapped in a film. The flower is transplanted into sawdust and put a container in the shaded place. After about 30 days, the processes move into one container, reducing the lower kidney with a soil by 5 cm. In the greenhouse conditions, the culture should take about 2 years.
White tree-like peony, photo:
Diseases of a tree peony
The tree-like peony is sufficiently resistant to diseases and pests, but with poor care, even this culture can comprehend similar troubles. Most of all diseases are subject to transplanted or very old bushes.
The tree-shaped peony most often suffers from gray rot. It is possible to eliminate it using a mortar solution, 3 g, which is dissolved in a bucket with water, and then irrigate the branches and leaves of the plant. Instead of manganese, you can use copper sulphate.
Brown spottedness is another attack that can happen to your peonies. It is not so easy to cure it, so damaged parts of the plants are recommended to cut off immediately and dispose of - burn. Healthy branches and leaves are treated by Bordeaux liquid.
Tree peony, photo:
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