Hi All,
Get your imaginative thinking caps on folks, & the dafter the better - I need a bit of distraction today.
You see the probelm is, I saved an old peony from being skipped last spring, but we were in the process of putting in paths etc, so I put it in a safe place (!) near the fence away from the groundworks.
Now I've decided where it will go, I want to move it while it's dormant, but.................
I can't remember exactly where I put it. I've tried the obvious and dug tentatively around where I think it should be, but no success. Ok, I could ask you all for sensible suggestions, but it's down to me to keep searching, so how about you put your creative thinking heads on and come up with some out of the box suggestions.
Thanks
a Plant something else where you intend planting the peony and b. Plant something (carelessly driving in the spade naturally) approximately where the peony was hidden. Works every time for me!
Brilliant - and so true
Just dig in any random spot. You are bound to put the blade of the spade through it. :D
Mine are just starting to break through.......pity, cos I've been trying to get rid of them for years now.....seem always to leave a bit of the root.....it's even gamely trying to grow in the compost :o.......anyway, you might be able to locate it without digging around v.v. soon, if you're not living too far north of me (midlands).
I accidentally dug some of mine up last weekend, and they're in several bucketfuls of weed on top of the pile. I'm just going to have to wait and hope I find them growing out of it. I'm sure yours will be appearing soon. They won't flower the year you move them anyway, so no harm done.
Robert, I know they are not supposed to like moving but I moved one just over twelve months ago which had been very reluctant to flower (I almost threw it away) and it bloomed brillantly a few months later. Don't know how it will do this spring though.
That's interesting; I've always had a few, and they've never done anything the year I've moved them.
This particular peony is very old & I grabbed it because it was being thrown out anyway, but didn't really have much hope. I kept it watered and it bloomed 5 months after being moved. I'm really lucky to have moved to a garden with great soil, so that may have helped, and I'm hopeful of it being fine again if I can move it to it's propoer site early enough in the season.
I'm in South Cheshire Alishka so sounds like it may make an arrearance soon - the rhubarb is growing & I can see the tips of the cimifunga just breaking through, but the soil was still frozen in the bits that didn't get direct sunshine last weekend.
Fingers crossed for another ferkle about this weekend.....
Quote from: froglets on February 02, 2006, 09:15:44
This particular peony is very old
Remember reading that they're one of the longest-living herbaceous plants - there are documented cases of paeonies which have survived from Victorian times to the present day.
And do ot worry about the frost, the buds need cold to initiate flowering.
Coo, didn't know that. they'll be well on their way after this week then.