The Growing Place provides expert advice on pruning peonies for optimal growth and blooms. To avoid mistakes, it is essential to clean your pruning shears or scissors, ensure they are sharp enough, and locate the wilting or dead part of the plant. Cut through the stem just below where the green growth is.
Pranning peonies is crucial for encouraging healthy growth and beautiful blooms. To prune peonies, wait until late fall when the plant has died back and cut the stems down to just above the base. Deadhead peonies by snipping back each stem to the nearest set of healthy leaves with sharp, clean pruners.
For light pruning before the shrub blooms, use clean pruners to remove suckers around the base and any dead wood. Make a clean cut just above the leaves or bud stem and avoid damaging or removing any healthy foliage from the plant. Remove and compost the dead flowers.
After a hard frost in the fall, cut the stems back at or near ground level, being careful not to damage the plant’s foliage. Trim in the spring from the base, first cutting out all dead and broken stems. If there are many dead flowers on the bush, make a small cut with pruners just below the base of the flower.
Cutting back herbaceous peonies is easy: cut everything back to about 2cm above the ground. This helps with good hygiene and ensures beautiful peony blooms every year.
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