Peonies quite deservedly enjoy love at flower growers. The secret of their popularity is simple: they are beautiful and bright, their magnificent blossoming is capable to decorate any garden. Peonies please with the blossoming the whole month, and leaving demand minimum. At the same time it possess beautiful carved foliage.
Peonies are quite scrupulous to conditions of the growth: they like "to drink" and "eat". Therefore in dry weather bushes with peonies follows it is abundant to water at the rate of one bucket on young bush and 1.5 buckets on old large copies. After watering, soil around bush should be prorykhlit and zamulchirovat with special care. Wood bark or sun-burned grass will remarkably cope with role of mulch.
Notice that watering of peony has to be infrequent, but at the same time rather abundant. In the absence of rains it is not necessary to make watering earlier, than the earth under bush will dry out. Wait week. Otherwise you can just fill in the handsome – peonies do not transfer overwetting of root system. Otherwise the peony will get sick botritisy or gray decay is the most widespread and his dangerous illness.
It is necessary to feed up peonies for the third year of their growth on one place. It is better to do it in June. This month the period of active budding of peonies is necessary. For reinforcement of plant it is necessary to introduce mineral fertilizers at the rate on one bush: 15-20 g of phosphorus, 10-15 g of potassium and 10-15 g of nitrogen. Fertilizers it is possible to get any, but it is important that they contained necessary microelements in the specified proportion. You should not forget about peonies and after the end of blossoming. Otherwise next year they will not be able to please you in the magnificent flowers. Two weeks later after blossoming feed up plants potassium and phosphorus. Never leave deflowered flowers on Kusa. They need to be deleted in due time. Peonies do not need frequent change. Time in 8-10 years is enough to update of them. For this purpose the bush needs to be dug out and to separate competently, having left no more than four roots shortened up to 10-15 centimeters. After that the separated bushes need to be planted on the solar place, or on it that the sun lit them not less than six hours. These simple actions will allow you to admire magnificent blossoming of peonies and their smart healthy greens.