Peonies

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Has anyone got them? Mine have just bloomed properly (after about 10 years) in the summer since we had a tree removed that was close by. I'm not sure whether to cut down the ugly leaves now or leave them. I don't want to kill them.

Yes, you can take the leaves off now. I take mine back during October half term each year. It won't harm them if you don't though (they just get beyond tatty & annoy me).

Oh great thank you, back to the ground? Are they like daffs and you need to wait till they go brown for the goodness to enrich the flower? Yours flower well do they?

They're flopping all over the place, as you say they're annoying Do you stake them?

Yes, cut them to the ground. They will grow new leaves in the spring. Peonies are very fastidious. They only flower when conditions are right. They hate to be moved- will not flower for few years if you touch roots even when tidying your garden.

Thanks Lee. I'll do that.

Oo I love Peonies, hope to put one in this year, thanks for the tips

hoochy You may be lucky and get flowers immediately or not , or like mine I had a few flowers to begin with and then nothing for many years, they are temperamental! But they do need good light levels. The flowers need staking too.

Love peonies but agree they’re high maintenance and like to sulk if moved but when they do flower I can forgive their Madameish ways

IME they sulk even when NOT moved Yes they are very beautiful , we can put up with them !

I moved a peony which had been in my previous garden for about 15 years, it spent several months in a pot then I planted it in February - it happily flowered a few months later.

So some don't mind being moved! It's a pale pink one, I think it's called Sarah Bernhardt.

Lucky you minnie

I hate my peony (managed to dig one out completely as it was in the way of a new veg plot). I have tried various control methds but the bugger flowers like a cerise-pink demon every year.

So I recommend you try to kill yours and tell them you hate the sight of them. They’ll be determined to prove you wrong 😂