Do peonies take to being moved?

[MumOfTheMoos]

Relatively new front garden and I'm sorting it out but there's a rather nice pale pink established peony where the bin cupboard is going to go - do they take to be moved, or should I give up on it?

I'm going to be replanting with lots of pale pink and white David sure roses, so a pale pink peony would fit in well if I could save it.

In theory they don't move, but in practice they can move fine - I think I moved mine early in spring and Molly coddled it a bit afterwards. I'd leave yours till autumn and then move it.

Don't move yet, not while flowering.

Mine have moved fine tho. No moddlycoddling needed

I moved peonies last autumn: dug them up hacked them about and divided them up and left some divisions outside in pots in the snow. All survived. No flowers as yet though.

Great- thank you for the advice!

Absolutely don't plant them too deep when you move them.

Here is a good link:

www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=671

Don't move till autumn and plant with the corns just at the surface. Don't expect flowers the first year after moving.
I have my husbands late grandmothers favourite peony and it's survived two moves so far and is flowering it's socks off!

I had no choice but to move one about 4 weeks ago, when it was in bud. It was fine and has flowered beautifully.

I had to move one in our old house as it was invisible where it was (and didn't flower), it survived and flowered beautifully afterwards!

More recently my dad gave me one of his (at Easter), it travelled all day in a carrier bag (bare root), couldn't plant it till the next day either. Now it is looking very limp and flopped right over, despite plenty of water - BUT it is still green so I am hoping that means it is still alive, just a bit weak and will be fine by next year?

Mum offered me what looked like 2 dead twigs in a pot last autumn. I kept 'forgetting' them until this spring. She'd dug it up and popped it in 3 pots. It came back from the roots in the spring. I've now brought it to my house :) Looks healthy enough. No flowers on but my sister's has grrrr. Should have took that one home first! High hopes for next year - and I still spotted a bit left in the garden too!