By Dordorpotty
Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
After moving a peony can I expect it to flower?
- 28 Apr, 2012
Answers
Don't replant it too deep..Try to keep it exactly as it is and there is a chance. But they do sulk a lot.
28 Apr, 2012
If you have moved it with lots of soil and very little root disturbance it wont have noticed. 2 of the ones I had to move 2 yrs ago flowered the 3rd didnt.
28 Apr, 2012
I moved a large peony last autumn, the flower buds are beginning to swell now, as Pimpernel says, don,t plant too deep, the tubers should be just under the soil, or even a little exposed, Derekm.
28 Apr, 2012
Thank you very much . I'll let you know. We did move it with loads of soil on it so here's hoping??
28 Apr, 2012
some seem to hate movement others are Ok. I've moved several in the past 2 years and about half flower the following year, others sulk for a couple of years.
As others have said the bigger the rootball, the less disturbance and the more likely it will flower soon
28 Apr, 2012
I moved one - a tree paeony - last year and it has lots of lovely flower buds on it now. However, I moved a herbaceous one two years ago and it hasn't been happy at all since...no flowers.
29 Apr, 2012
Thank you to all the replys your all sending. I'm learning so much ????
29 Apr, 2012
Sorry to say, peonies do not like to be moved, it may sulk for a few years, but then one may never know it may flower for you. :))))
28 Apr, 2012