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Rehoming peonies and rhubarb - help!
Sapling Gardener
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We're moving house and I'm desperate to take a few things with me. I have a well-established rhubarb patch, a large peony bush, which I'm eager to take some of and a hybrid tea rose and a very baby apple tree (about 1 metre tall), which, I hope, will also come. I've no idea, however, where to start in terms of uprooting/ dividing and how/ where to re-home in the new garden etc. Any advice would be gratefully received.
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to move a peony you need to convince it that it hasn't been moved!
Dig it up with a large rootball and plant it in a pot until you decide where to replant it.
don't plant it too deep. I moved one a few years ago and put it in a fairly shallow pot for a few months and then replanted it in the garden and it didn't realise that it had been moved and has flowered well ever since. Good luck.
I wonder where the idea that paeonies can't be moved originated. It's so obviously not true but is still passed on
In the sticks near Peterborough
Great advice everyone, thanks. Had heard lots about peonies being temperamental, but, glad to hear it can be done. As a rule, shall I aim to pot them all up last minute so they're out of the ground as little time as poss, or best to let them rest in pots to settle? Thanks.