The peony is pruned like this after flowering. It will blossom a lot in the coming year.

16. If the peony is pruned like this after blooming, it will blossom more and more in the coming year!

This is the 16th article of the blue demon's original "Peony Culture" column.

The most common impression of peony flowers is in costume dramas, it seems that only the imperial garden can match the feeling of peonies, so many people are afraid of peonies, want to plant but do not know how to grow, and do not know how to raise them. I don't know how to cut it, so today the blue demon will briefly introduce the method of pruning peony flowers.

Peony pruning, the more exquisite approach is carried out in stages, if not so fastidious, you can directly wait for the blooming, cut off the residual flowers, and then wait until the winter pruning. In fact, the blue demon is not so fastidious about growing flowers, but today, we still pay attention to it.

Peony pruning after flowering

After peony blossoms, you should cut off the residual flowers in time and try not to leave seeds. Seed cultivation is more tedious and time-consuming. Blue demons do not recommend individuals to use seeds to breed peonies, so after peony blossoms, trim the residual flowers in time.

The method is very simple, just cut off the flower stalk directly, there is no need to cut off the leaves. Key points: do not cut the leaves.

Peony pruning before summer

After cutting off the residual flowers, normal maintenance, to the summer, almost May-June bar, again to the peony pruning, this pruning, to be exact, is to destroy the peony leaf buds.

Use tools such as a sharp knife or pin to break or destroy the leaf buds at the top of the new branch of the peony.

These buds are of no use in the future. later, when we talk about peony winter pruning, we will say that peony "grows by one foot and retreats by eight inches." these leaf buds on new branches cannot germinate and grow later, so they can be destroyed early so that nutrients can be concentrated and supplied to the flower buds below.

At the beginning, the blue demon said that the peony still has an unfastidious pruning method, and the unfastidious pruning method is directly omitted, which destroys leaf buds in May-June. Because if it is not destroyed, this part of the buds will gradually die in autumn and winter, just wasting some nutrients of the plant.

Winter pruning of peony flowers

A more important pruning of peony flowers is carried out after defoliation in autumn and winter. This pruning is not too early, pruning before defoliation is easy to cause early onset of peonies and does not bloom in spring.

Pruning principle

Winter pruning should follow the principle of "retreating eight inches by one foot". Peony growth generally only the 3rd-4th axillary buds will differentiate, and the buds above the 4th bud will gradually die, these dead buds are actually 5-6 points should be destroyed leaf buds.

Pruning step

First of all, the dead branches and diseased branches should be trimmed, and the branches that are too thin should also be cut off.

When pruning branches, the pruning should be carried out according to the principle of retreating eight inches by one foot in length, and the pruning of big seedlings should follow "sewing three to one", that is, when three branches are together, one branch in the middle should be trimmed to leave more room for growth. (strong branches should be retained first)

According to the principle of staying strong and getting weak, trim the too dense and small branches, retain the oblique lateral branches outward, and bend to straighten, so as to adjust the overall shape of the peony.

Pay attention to retain the bud point, should retain the outward bud point, avoid leaving the inward bud point, so that the new branch will have more room for growth, and the plant type will be more beautiful.

Peonies are cold-resistant and not heat-resistant, and flower friends who raise peonies will find that peonies are particularly prone to problems in summer, and some may even die in summer, so tomorrow the blue demon will come to talk about how the peony is safe to spend the summer. Welcome to continue to follow the blue demon's update tomorrow.

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