How to trim the latest peony flowers in autumn

Peony pruning in autumn should pay attention to the point including cutting flowers, pruning, picking buds and cleaning sprouts and so on. At the end of the autumn flowering season, we cut off the remaining flowers and withered leaves, cut off the long branches, thin branches, dead branches, cut off the buds growing inward, clean up the sprouts growing on the roots, and prepare for winter.

How to trim peony flowers in autumn

1, cut flowers

In the autumn, peony flowers bloom to the end, will completely wither. After the flowers wither, we should promptly use sterilized scissors to cut off the pedicels and withered leaves remaining on the branches, and cut off the top buds of the flowering branches to inhibit the growth of flowering branches, so as to promote the flowering branches to grow more flower buds from the bottom in the coming year.

2. Pruning

After flowering, we should carry out a pruning work, cut off all the branches that waste nutrients such as excessive long branches, thin branches and dead branches on peony plants, and then clean and prune the branches that are not conducive to modeling such as overlapping branches, cross branches and miscellaneous branches, so as to make the plant type transparent and grow well.

3. Bud picking

After pruning useless overlapping branches and long branches, we should look for bud points growing inward on the branches, cut off these bud points growing inward, and keep the bud points growing outward, so as to promote the peony flowers to grow outward and spread, forming a lush crown, and disinfect them in time after pruning.

4. Clean up sprouts

After this pruning, we can clean the pot slightly, slightly soil the roots, look for sprouts on the stems close to the roots, and clean up the local buds where the branches grow, saving nutrients for the peony. After cleaning up, we should disinfect it in time and dry it slightly before planting it.