Herbacious peony growing with tree peony

9 years ago

I have a tree peony in my garden that is 4/5 yrs old and every year when it blooms I only get one bloom BUT I get about 10 herbaceous single pedal peony (pink and yellow) very pretty peony but I was concerned that the Herb was overtaking my tree peony.
I tried to find some info on this because I really did not want to loose either one of these plants. I finally went to "CricketHillGarden" word press and they have a very good explanation on the very issue that I was concerned with.
I dug up, the tree peony and found that the Herbaceous peony had in fact completely circled the tree peony roots with about 20 eyes (very big root ball). I then separated the herb from the tree simply by pulling apart the roots and then replanting the plants separate, one tree, and four herbaceous plants.
Wonder if any of you on here have had such a situation and how did you correct the issue. The article gives about 3 different methods BUT I did not want to loose any of my plants So I chose to separate the grafted herb from the tree. Wondering if this method is successful or not, due to it being Jan 28 12;16 pm. and 38 degrees

Comments (3)

lizbest1
9 years ago
You'll probably want to add extra protection for all of the newly replanted pieces if you have another hard freeze this winter but otherwise you should be fine. Another forum member posted about doing the exact same thing, think it was either last fall or the one just before, with great success. Hope it works out just as well for you!
lizbest1
9 years ago
Sorry, it posted twice!

This post was edited by LizinElizabeth on Wed, Jan 28, 15 at 19:53
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graycrna4u
9 years ago
Hi, Liz. It was me that posted about this problem. I separated a tree peony from its herbaceous root in the late spring. Actually, it occurred twice. Glad to report that all survived, herbaceous and tree. They did not bloom this year, but all survived and I expect blooms this upcoming spring. By the way, I have a tree peony that leafed out this week. Way too early, but the cold weather, snow and ice don't seem to bother the new branches. Hope you are having a good winter. Spring will be here soon.