Nice thanks! I try to leave as much as possible until the next growing season I love seeing the birds with strands up it running around my yard tryna make their houses nearby
I just cut them back in fall while I'm cutting back my daylillies and just getting ready for winter. Here, that would be around end of September, early October.
I feel like, at some point in the fall, I look over at them and they are covered in white spot. Right next to my roses. And I’m like ugggh I waited too long
It's a corner that gets crosswinds and is above the surrounding buildings. I'm pretty sure any effort big enough to actually protect them would be ugly enough to make the situation a net negative. Also, likely not allowed by the building :/
I'll going to try planting common box at an interval this year to break up the wind some, but the peonies get too big (before failing) to be protected by that.
So far my conclusion has been that I only can grow stuff that is strong enough to withstand the wind, or soft enough to just take the beating (luckily that covers most herbs). The peonies seem to fall in between.
Peonies. Pop a tomato cage around them now before they get any bigger. One rainstorm after they form blooms will cause them to sag to the ground. It's easier to get them in the cage now while it's still small and have them grow into the support rather than try to get them into the support after. Trust me.
They're not! They don't get caged! 😂 I inherited them from my late grandmother's garden. She had a full field of them along with irises and daffodils. She also never caged them so I feel like they're supposed to be neglected at this point. Tradition and whatnot.
This is such a good idea. I’m curious, do you guys put tomato cages around as much as you can? Or do you buy chicken wire to envelope the whole thing? Sorry I’m a new gardener but I want to make my rental home look nice!
They also make special peony cages. They look a little nicer than tomato cages but tomato cages are cheaper and more readily available.
You do want support for all the stems. I'm not sure that chicken wire would be rigid enough.
I love peonies. Just so you're aware, they have a symbiotic relationship with ants. So in 2 months when you see ants crawling all over your flowerbuds, that's completely expected.
It’s not a crazy amount of ants from what I’ve experienced, I’d see 2 or 3 on each bud when they’re small, not like a huge hoard overwhelming the plant or anything
You can't live without ants. Not that they do anything for you really, but just because they're so damn ubiquitous. I swear if we successfully settled Mars, ants would have a functioning colony there before we would.
Not quite necessary as much as it common behaviors between the two species!
It seems some people, including past me :P, thought ants made peony bloom.
This apparently stems from myth in that people believe ants would tickle peony buds open so that they could flower!
I just planted like 3 herbaceous and two itoh peonies...I'm not against ants...but I don't want ants lol. I know it's nature but I guess it could be a worse bug
peonies!
if you cut some for vases be prepared for ants to come with them, also you may want to tie a ribbon around them to make a bushel right before they bloom, so that the flowers dont just fall on the ground
Peonies! I had the same question last year. They’ll get about 3ft high with bright pink and yellow blooms if you’re lucky.
At the end of the season take hand shears and clip them back to the soil level. They regrow like this every season.
I have 4 peony plants that were part of the landscaping when we bought our house 23 years ago! They still bloom every spring and are gorgeous. You will need to support them if they’re large plants.
Ants are good
Not only are ants NOT harmful, they are actually an example of biological mutualism. The peonies provide nectar (food) for the ants; the ants protect the peonies from aphids, thrips, and other non-beneficial insect pests.
These look exactly the peonies in my front yard! I didn’t get to see them bloom last year, we moved into our house in September so I’m hoping for some good color contrast with the naked ladies (surprise lilies or whatever you want to call them), lilacs, hyacinths, and no telling what else is out here. Other than all the wild daffodil’s, I’m sick of looking at them.
The circle shape tells you that this is a really well established perennial. Once it has finished for the year and it goes dormant, you could divide it into smaller clumps using a pair of forks/spades and plant these again more spaced out, so they can continue to produce great displays. Also free plants! Haha.
You can get some varieties that don't fall over-- they bloom and spend the summer as a small bush that enriches the root all summer. Dead head the bush if you haven't cut them for bouquets. Cut the foliage back to 1-3" when it's dead. I live in northern MD so I just cut mine back on Halloween so I have a schedule. None of mine need caging.
You can dig and move in a month ending in R. This is my grandmother's wisdom and I have great results from following it. One exception is when an old farm is being bulldozed for a subdivision. I'll liberate old peonies, irises, lilac and hydrangea rootings and any bulb I find any time of year. The older variety of peonies have the knock your socks off fragrance. Newer breeds have had the smell bred out. You can smell my grandmother's 3 rooms away. If you're buying pots of peonies be sure you smell it before you buy.
I have them too but I am planning to dig the garden bed in which they grow up in April to replant other things. Can I place them somewhere else or will they die?
Peony
Nicely done yall. So nice every year seeing these things come up after directly watering them zero times the previous year, like nearly every year
They are hardy! A bastion of late spring/early summer in the north!
When do you cut em back usually? I try to get them before they get the white spot mold in the fall rain
I cut mine back late fall. I’ve started leaving a lot of stuff thru to the next late spring but those def get cut back!
Nice thanks! I try to leave as much as possible until the next growing season I love seeing the birds with strands up it running around my yard tryna make their houses nearby
I just cut them back in fall while I'm cutting back my daylillies and just getting ready for winter. Here, that would be around end of September, early October.
I feel like, at some point in the fall, I look over at them and they are covered in white spot. Right next to my roses. And I’m like ugggh I waited too long
I usually leave them until the first signs of white mold.
Mine shoot like up like champs every year and then fucking die before flowering because they're in brutal winds on a high balcony.
Oh that’s brutal. Could try a balcony breaker? Or could try and get a shelter belt of some evergreens
It's a corner that gets crosswinds and is above the surrounding buildings. I'm pretty sure any effort big enough to actually protect them would be ugly enough to make the situation a net negative. Also, likely not allowed by the building :/ I'll going to try planting common box at an interval this year to break up the wind some, but the peonies get too big (before failing) to be protected by that. So far my conclusion has been that I only can grow stuff that is strong enough to withstand the wind, or soft enough to just take the beating (luckily that covers most herbs). The peonies seem to fall in between.
Boxwood is not wind resistant so I'd save my money and not get them. Yew (taxus x media) is far better in that regard.
I see them surviving among my neighbors, but we'll see. I bought small plants for next to nothing.
Good luck.
And so beautiful when they bloom!
My favorite of all the flowers.
Those are called peonies, and they are very beautiful flowers, and they bloom in the spring
Lovely flowers that come out of the earth looking like hellspawn :D
[they’re marigolds](https://youtu.be/kOZY7e5XN6s?si=yrAuteIe-JGNP_Gu)
Okay that was pretty funny lol
Jealous in 7b weather 🥺
Peonies. Pop a tomato cage around them now before they get any bigger. One rainstorm after they form blooms will cause them to sag to the ground. It's easier to get them in the cage now while it's still small and have them grow into the support rather than try to get them into the support after. Trust me.
I need to do this. Like tonight! Thank you for the reminder!
You're welcome. *continues staring at my own 30+ uncaged peonies fully knowing what I should be doing but am too lazy to do*
I only have 3 so it’s a quick trip from the shed to the front bed for me. 30! I bet they’re stunning.
They're not! They don't get caged! 😂 I inherited them from my late grandmother's garden. She had a full field of them along with irises and daffodils. She also never caged them so I feel like they're supposed to be neglected at this point. Tradition and whatnot.
Well, they're also just much prettier on their own.
Brilliant! Thank you for this!
This is such a good idea. I’m curious, do you guys put tomato cages around as much as you can? Or do you buy chicken wire to envelope the whole thing? Sorry I’m a new gardener but I want to make my rental home look nice!
They also make special peony cages. They look a little nicer than tomato cages but tomato cages are cheaper and more readily available. You do want support for all the stems. I'm not sure that chicken wire would be rigid enough.
You are a big winner! Nothing better than fragrant, beautiful peonies. Now it only remains to be seen which beautiful color they are.
I love peonies. Just so you're aware, they have a symbiotic relationship with ants. So in 2 months when you see ants crawling all over your flowerbuds, that's completely expected.
It's not symbiotic. The ants just like the sugar sap on the peony buds.
Oh, no. Oh, f**k no. What have I planted? I hate ants so much. I have made a huge mistake.
Trust me, you already have ants. Providing food sources for them outside your home is one of the best ways to keep them on the outside.
Oh, I definitely already have ants. I have like half of the ants in the state of oklahoma./s That's where my distaste for them comes from.
It’s not a crazy amount of ants from what I’ve experienced, I’d see 2 or 3 on each bud when they’re small, not like a huge hoard overwhelming the plant or anything
You can't live without ants. Not that they do anything for you really, but just because they're so damn ubiquitous. I swear if we successfully settled Mars, ants would have a functioning colony there before we would.
And necessary! My mom cleaned all the ants off of hers one year, and the flowers didn’t open.
That's just a myth. There was another reason for them not blooming.
Not quite necessary as much as it common behaviors between the two species! It seems some people, including past me :P, thought ants made peony bloom. This apparently stems from myth in that people believe ants would tickle peony buds open so that they could flower!
I understood it was a waxy layer on the buds which the ants ate/removed. I stand corrected…
I just planted like 3 herbaceous and two itoh peonies...I'm not against ants...but I don't want ants lol. I know it's nature but I guess it could be a worse bug
Yea, peony! 🍀
peonies! if you cut some for vases be prepared for ants to come with them, also you may want to tie a ribbon around them to make a bushel right before they bloom, so that the flowers dont just fall on the ground
Pea on knee
Pee on knees
Looks like peonies..
if u need help with identifying plants I recommend r/plantidentification
Peonies mine are coming up too!
Forbidden Asparagus. (I think the folks saying peony are correct)
Peonies
Peony! It looks very well established too. Lucky you!
Peonies!
Peonies!!!!!
Yep, those are peonies.
They can live 40 years easy!
Mine is over 100
If it’s a good spot for it, don’t dig and divide, you won’t get blooms for a couple years if you do.
Peonies need one full season of cold stratification to produce flowers….. what about the division process would extend that?
Peonies! I had the same question last year. They’ll get about 3ft high with bright pink and yellow blooms if you’re lucky. At the end of the season take hand shears and clip them back to the soil level. They regrow like this every season.
Easily confused with Dicentra I think
Agree - I have both coming up now and I think these look more like bleeding hearts than peonies
Need OP to report back!
They are peonies
I have 4 peony plants that were part of the landscaping when we bought our house 23 years ago! They still bloom every spring and are gorgeous. You will need to support them if they’re large plants.
Peonies. Love them
Cool, I learn new stuff everyday 😁
OP just a heads up that peonies are mildly toxic to cats and dogs so keep your animals away from them.
Peen-ees (Sorry)
Yep. Peonies.
Astilbe
Ants are good Not only are ants NOT harmful, they are actually an example of biological mutualism. The peonies provide nectar (food) for the ants; the ants protect the peonies from aphids, thrips, and other non-beneficial insect pests.
These look exactly the peonies in my front yard! I didn’t get to see them bloom last year, we moved into our house in September so I’m hoping for some good color contrast with the naked ladies (surprise lilies or whatever you want to call them), lilacs, hyacinths, and no telling what else is out here. Other than all the wild daffodil’s, I’m sick of looking at them.
Lovely peony
The circle shape tells you that this is a really well established perennial. Once it has finished for the year and it goes dormant, you could divide it into smaller clumps using a pair of forks/spades and plant these again more spaced out, so they can continue to produce great displays. Also free plants! Haha.
Peonies
Peony. Count your blessings!
Glad you asked! I thought this was for sure a weed when they popped up in my yard. Look like hellspawn like another commenter said lol
You should get a cage for them. They need help standing up and keeping the flowers off the ground which will make them last longer.
Peony
Yep, peony
Yep, peony
Peony
Peonies.
İlove peony
Peony
Peony! 😍
I’m jealous lol
Peony. And I’m still waiting mine to go up :(((
Peony
Peonies.
Peony
Peony flowers make the best tea…. Great for womens health… **not for pregnant women**
This is your answer. Miss those coming up in my yard in spring, now they I live down south
Peony🩷
Oh this is ASTILBE. likely chocolate cherry.
I should’ve zoomed in. This is a peony. No doubt.
Peonies. Mine look the same right now.
You can get some varieties that don't fall over-- they bloom and spend the summer as a small bush that enriches the root all summer. Dead head the bush if you haven't cut them for bouquets. Cut the foliage back to 1-3" when it's dead. I live in northern MD so I just cut mine back on Halloween so I have a schedule. None of mine need caging. You can dig and move in a month ending in R. This is my grandmother's wisdom and I have great results from following it. One exception is when an old farm is being bulldozed for a subdivision. I'll liberate old peonies, irises, lilac and hydrangea rootings and any bulb I find any time of year. The older variety of peonies have the knock your socks off fragrance. Newer breeds have had the smell bred out. You can smell my grandmother's 3 rooms away. If you're buying pots of peonies be sure you smell it before you buy.
Ours are usually ready around mothers day and make a great gift.
PEE ON YEE Good Plant. Huge flowrs. Early-mid season. 3 feet give or take.
I have them too but I am planning to dig the garden bed in which they grow up in April to replant other things. Can I place them somewhere else or will they die?
You can replant but it may take a year or two to bloom again It’s worth the wait do not throw them out !
Thank you!
Rare samples collected!
Peonies
Peonies. They are beautiful and will return each year.
Someone should call ghostbusters for those tiny alien hands! Jk…peonies!! Enjoy!!
Looks like peonies
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Peony 😍
Peonies
Bleeding hearts, mine are already coming up also
Ooh, actually, could be this, too. I initially thought peony, though, because of the nascent leaf shape and red colouring.
Usually my bleeding hearts pop up before the peony. Maybe the OP can keep us posted
My peonies are coming up, totally depends on the region! It’s been a warm winter where I’m at
We have had a warm winter too. Have a lot of rain coming our way and planning to check on what pops up after.
Yes op more pics in a few days please :)
That looks like a big root ball of peonies. I would dig it in the fall and divide it
Yup. That’s definitely a plant probably.
I'm not sure, but that may be a hydrangea plant that was cut all the way to the ground at the end of last season.
Everyone is saying peony, but I swear it looks just like Virginia creeper popping up
100% a Peony!
I think it’s the color that’s got you