Any chance my peonies might flower still?

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I planted new peonies and they have lots of green growth but no buds coming yet.

Have I run out of time to have blooms this year or is there still a chance ?

I’ve never had much luck with peonies, regardless of where I plant them, but one of my plants had a flower last June, so I’m still hoping.
Sorry not much help.

Yes there is - as long as you feed them with something to encourage flowers not leafy growth. Planting late can set them back a bit but for context I have two peony clumps in my cottage garden in different locations - one is in fat bud and will flower shortly, the other has no buds just pimples, because it's position is colder, but it will catch up when the warmth comes. Peonies are greedy feeders, dislike disturbance and drought. I mulch mine in late autumn but don't mulch right up to the stems. If they didn't reward you with flowers this year you can look forward to next year when they are properly established.

Please excuse random apostrophe- damn autocorrect

Maybe not this year, but they'll be fine next year.

Mine are all in bud and nearly flowering, and I saw a different breed in full flower yesterday afternoon. But I don't know about every different sort!

When I first planted mine they flowered a bit but afterwards they 'sulked' for years. I then started feeding giving extra rain water too and mulching them (oh and also a tall tree nearby had to be removed) NOW they've enlarged their clump and are double the height, about to flower too it's amazing it's just taken about 9 years So patience is a virtue, esp. for gardeners!!!!!

I’m not expecting anything great from any of mine for about 2 years. They only went in in the last year as either pot grown or bare root so although they’ve got lots of shoots and are definitely doing something, I wasn’t expecting anything this year, possibly something anti-climactic next year but hopefully the year after that they’ll start to do something a bit more worthwhile. If you’ve got no buds at all at this point then they’re probably not going to this year, but will more than likely do so next!

@BCBG which feed do you recommend to encourage flowering?

Poppins I'd recommend saving your tea and coffee dregs mixing with 3\4 rain water. I do also make a nettle feed used in the same way.I have never bought feed and this works very well. I try to use rainwater when it's dry and 'feed' every 3 weeks or so.

I planted a bulb three years ago,
Year 1 - nothing.
Year 2 - small green shoot
Year 3 (this year) - it's about 1/2 metre tall, lots of steams and very close to flowering on 3 maybe more stems. Very excited!

I know they take a little while to bed in - but last year we started draining the pond into the flowerbed on water changes, and everything has grown like crazy!!

The closest thing you can buy (if you haven't got a pond) is the fish, blood and bone fertiliser.

Fish blood and bone is sold in cheap self filled bags by my local nursery grower. I also use bargain basement tomato food diluted on pots. that needs a lift weekly in flowering season. Worm tea is brilliant and nettle tea ditto when I have time to make it! I also am lucky enough to have my own compost heap and all of that goes on borders every year. Also pelleted chicken manure in with new plantings. I garden on heavy clay so the main thing is to mulch religiously - if you have better soil you might not need to.