Beds of magnificent peonies are capable to decorate even the most ordinary-looking seasonal dacha. Cut flowers perfectly look in bouquets which long do not fade in house conditions. If it is correct to look after peonies, they will please with the magnificence not less than 15 years. However happens that plants do not blossom on new bed. In certain cases just it is necessary to wait, and sometimes flowers need the immediate help.
Features of blossoming of peonies
If you have planted peonies on the site only a year ago, do not wait that they will blossom at once. After landing the plants need to take roots, grow up high stalks. Often buds are dismissed only for the second year, however peonies should not spend the forces for blossoming still. Your task is to help young plant to grow up not less than 3-h-6-ti high stalks. The very first buds which have had diameter about 8 mm are recommended to be cut off.
It is desirable to get planting stock from experienced flower growers or in flower shops and greenhouses that upon purchase to find out all features of specific grade. Some of peonies (for example, part of hybrids, dairy and floral grades and number of red) for the first time blossom only on the 3rd, and at times and for the 4th year. But what to do if there have passed 4-5 years after landing, bushes look healthy, but do not give inflorescences?
The beginning of blossoming of peonies depends on climatic zone and grade. Some plants dismiss buds since the end of May, in June, others please with inflorescences even in the middle of the summer. If to plant bush in shadow, the blossoming season will be removed.
Peonies have not blossomed: possible reasons
It is necessary to check whether beds are correctly put. The distance from the topmost kidney of rhizome to soil has to be about 4 cm on loam and 6-7 - on the easy soil. Roots of perennial are increased top and after weedings can seem from the earth. Landing should not be neither too small, nor buried. Carefully you otgrebit the earth under plant, specify feature of landing and modify the provision of rhizome: remove excess soil or prikopayta peony. Will not please with blossoming the peonies growing close to others at plants with powerful roots or to the base of the building – they cannot develop and receive enough nutrients normally. At the end of summer it is necessary to dig out flowers and to make standard allotments - rhizome pieces approximately in 20 cm, with 3-mya-5-yu kidneys. It is necessary to replace peonies to the place where there is a lot of the sun, but there is protection against strong winds. Experienced flower growers know that the beautiful bed can be grown up only from young plant as after change the adult bush does not form full-fledged root system. Perhaps, you used the weakened or low-quality planting stock. Whatever was the reason that your peonies do not blossom quite long time after landing, wait for the end of August, dig out and replace plants to the new place.
Perennials have ceased to blossom: we help peonies
Sometimes, that peonies please you several years in magnificent color, and in one year do not give inflorescences at all. To it there can be several reasons. The most obvious of them – the wrong cutting of peonies on bouquets. As flower growers emphasize, it is necessary to delete no more than 1/3 all stalks and to leave untouched the lowermost leaves, at the basis of escapes occurs formations of new kidneys. One more possible reason that peonies do not blossom – soil exhaustion. These plants strongly consume power supply from emergence of the first sprouts. After each blossoming it is necessary to introduce liquid fertilizers in ring ditch around peony and it is good to water bed. However follow the simple rule: it is better not to finish feeding perennials slightly, than to introduce too many fertilizers – differently bushes will be juicy and powerful, but will not please with inflorescences. The recommended fertilizing for peonies (on 1 sq.m): - on the first year after landing - 30 g of ammonium nitrate (ampere-second.), 15 g of potash salt (to. page) and as much superphosphate (page f.); - on the second year - 60 g of ampere-second., 30 g to. page and 30 g of page f.; - since the third year and further – 90 g of ampere-second., on 45 to. page and page f. Gray decay can be the reasons of the termination of blossoming of peonies. Usually the disease affects plants on the top of summer. Often it happens because all land part of deflowered peony is cut off, without having waited for late fall. If the plant has ached, at the end of April 2 times at an interval of 10 days should be sprayed bed with fungicides. Among the least toxic means - potassium permanganate solution at the rate of 3 g on ten-liter bucket of water, or colloid sulfur (60 g on bucket).
Some gardeners carry out prevention of gray decay at peonies by spraying of landings by infusion of davleny garlic (1 teaspoon on 1 l of water).
Peonies can just not blossom once because they have grown old. It is desirable to rejuvenate each 8 years bushes. It is better to do it at the end of August – the first half of September. It is necessary to dig out roots, to clean from the soil with wooden peg and to allow to lie down on the earth of 3 h. Stalks are cut off on 10 cm in height. Young parts of rhizome with roots with a diameter about 4 cm need to be cut on the allotments and damaged, old and sick to remove. Create new bed and constantly look after the peonies – and they still will please you.