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WHY IS MY PEONY PLANT NOT FLOWERING?
CHRISTINE BRAILSFORD
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I purchased a peony plant around 3 years ago now and I planted it in a bit pot and placed it on the patio area of my garden, it flowerd the first year, then last year and this year, no flowers on the plant, just leaves on it, I cut it back each winter and feed it and no flowers on it this year again, im so dissapointed , as peonies are my favourite flower, I bought it as a grown on plant as they are so hard to grow as bulbs, would it be better planted in the ground? I just have no idea what ive done wrong and its not flowering for the past 2 yrs now, could any one please answere my question please, would appiciate it so much, i realy want my peony to flower, thank you in advance for anyone who can answere my question, thank you so much
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What sort of paeony is it Christine? There are herbaceous paeonies that die back to the ground every year, and tree paeonies that are shrubby with woody stems.
It would be better in the soil but some people do flower them in pots
They don't have bulbs and I've never seen them for sale as dry roots.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Lots of us have moved paeonies with no ill effects Edd. We had a thread on it last year some time. I did read somewhere how that myth started but my memory isn't what it was.
Actually, the last is not true, my memory has always been bad and still is
In the sticks near Peterborough
lol
In the sticks near Peterborough
I planted 3 bare rooted peonies last autumn and they have all come up and flowered succesfully this year.
You can successfully grow and flower peonies in pots. They like good drainage but don't like peat based composts, I was recommended to us John Innes No3. they prefer to be slightly on the dry side and don't like to be overwatered. I was also recommended to only keep them in the pot for a couple of year's and to then move them to the garden.
Interesting pansyface, my Sarah Bernhardt is also temperamental, it does not look as though the buds are growing much this year. I always assumed it was not in an ideal spot, but I shall now blame the plant and not me.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Had a PM from Christine, It's Sarah Bernhardt.
So, a temperamental one
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ours didn't flower this year either. We usually only get one flower anyway, but this year the bud stayed tiny then just died
I have major problem with my sarah bernhardt peony. It just won't flower. Not plated too deep. Sunny spot, good drainage. The most I have achieved us small buds that come to nothing. Any suggestions
I grew up with Peony's massive shrubs of them 50 years old when i first knew them and I have a cutting from that bush rooted when i got it and knowing it would take five to seven years to flower. My Sarah B flowers well every year the Rubra's are a mass of flowers that need to be staked and cross stringed to stop the heavy heads drooping.
OK they should be in the ground in a sunny position though not early morning sun, mine get the sun around ten in the morning until the last rays at night. The top of the root should be in the ground early below the level of the surround and once in never cover the root ball with soil. I mulch a couple of times a year away from the root ball, spread the mulch thickly about a foot away in a circle. Normal rain is enough water though if we have a very dry spell I will give them a bucket of water in one go. I never cut them down until I see the first new growth, the dry old top growth after dead heading helps against frost. They can be moved and may not flower that year while they settle though will flower there after. Take as big a lump of rootball as you can carry or drag, prepare a hole with grit in the bottom plenty of compost mixed in the excavated soil then drop the root ball in the hole with the top of the root level with the soils around, do not cover the root or bury it, being buried is often why they stop flowering. Apart from the mulch they do not get fed though I may mix a handful of granular fertiliser in one mulch a year. The reason I say not early morning sun is because here in then NE we get late frosts and it is best for them to de-ice slowly, it is the sun kills the plants not the frost. That is what I found to my cost, we gardeners are learning all the time, usually by our mistakes.
They are wonderful fussy Ladies, treat them with respect and they live for ever, if they are happy they reward you with masses of flower, they need a little tough love to show who is boss.
Frank.