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Help planting bareroot peonies

ladybug A 9a Houston area

18 years ago

Hi Everyone, I posted this as a follow up in another thread and did not get any response, so trying again...

What size containers are we talking about for peonies? I just got two bareroot (one bowl of beauty and one sara bernhardt) from home depot here and put them in 12" pots (I had read somewhere else that I should plant immediately and cant hold on to them like bulbs). Should I move them to bigger pots right away or can I wait for a year? When will these bloom? Will I be hurting them if I moved them later on? Sorry for all the questions, I am a newbie

Thanks!!

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calistoga_al ca 15 usda 9
18 years ago
Leave them in the pots till next year. In the heat of the summer the pots will overheat unless they are dug into the soil and kept from drying out Al
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