The leaves have wilted and the stems have blackened. Is this a fungus? i am very concerned i will lose them. What shall i do? Any advice much appreciated.
Mine started to wilt but perked up after I left a hosepipe running on it for half an hour. Even long established perennials are starting to wilt in this heat.
I can understand them wilting if it's very dry, but those stems are a bit worrying if it's drought. Are everybody's like that in the really dry areas? Mine are a bit red at the bottom couple of inches, but those look quite black.
Sorry if I'm being thick but - what does 'itoh' mean?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Itoh are intermediate peonies, a cross between tree and herbaceous. Mine forms quite a tight clump but looks more like a tree peony. My tree peonies (delavayi) tend to be a bit rampant, spreading under paving.
Ah - thanks @fidgetbones. I'm aware of Intermediate peonies, but just hadn't seen it written like that. Probably just being a bit dim - that time of night!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thank you everyone for the input! it can't be drought wilting, because i know what this looks like and, as @Fairygirl says, they just wilt, without getting black. Or they get reddish with sunburn. Besides the herbaceous peonies in the same border look fine, only itoh are affected.
in fact i have tried to water them less (hence the dryness) as i had had a sprinkler just over them and i thought they might have got too much water!!!
I was wondering if anyone else had encountered similar symptoms...
@fidgetbones thanks for explaining about the itoh peonies before i got the chance to!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry if I'm being thick but - what does 'itoh' mean?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
it can't be drought wilting, because i know what this looks like and, as @Fairygirl says, they just wilt, without getting black. Or they get reddish with sunburn. Besides the herbaceous peonies in the same border look fine, only itoh are affected.
in fact i have tried to water them less (hence the dryness) as i had had a sprinkler just over them and i thought they might have got too much water!!!
I was wondering if anyone else had encountered similar symptoms...
@fidgetbones thanks for explaining about the itoh peonies before i got the chance to!