Fragrant and lush flowers of peonies are decorated with flower beds, flower beds and lawns. These unpretentious flowers are loved by gardeners and landscape designers. A variety of colors and shapes of inflorescences allows everyone to find the most suitable variety. The performance team will surely interest everyone who has decided to replenish the collection of flowers with varietal peonies.
Peony Command Performance
The hybrid variety was introduced to the world community back in the 90s. Since then, the peony Command Performance has not only lost its popularity, but on the contrary has taken an honorable leading place among terry red peonies.
Performance Team - One of the Outstanding Hybrid Varieties
Grade description
This herbaceous plant is a hybrid (hybrida), which has powerful shoots about 70-80 cm in height, partially prone to lodging. Leaves are carved, green, typical of peonies. On the bottom of the shoots they are absent.
Huge scarlet inflorescences are a feature of the Variety of Command Performance. This is what brought him fame and universal recognition. The diameter of the flower can reach 30 cm. On strong and long peduncles there are single flowers - pompons, which have a slightly perceptible pleasant aroma.
Gorgeous Peony Flower Command Performance
Advantages and disadvantages
Peony Teams Performance, the description of which indicates a very aristocratic appearance - the hybrid is quite unpretentious. Many of its characteristics can be considered as advantages, namely:
- bright and spectacular flowering;
- high frost resistance;
- standard care requirements;
- resistance to climate change;
- ease of reproduction;
- low susceptibility to disease.
Along with the pros, there are some disadvantages. These include:
- exactingness to the composition and structure of the soil;
- the need for regular feeding.
Use in landscape design
Peony Command performance is often used by landscape designers for various decorative purposes. To decorate the sites, not only the inflorescences of the plant are used, but also its green part.
Team Performance is widely used in landscape design
Options for the use of peony in the process of landscaping:
- When tape landing it is used for zoning the space on the site, as well as a low hedge.
- Group landings look spectacular as an accent on an open lawn-covered area.
- You can use the Performance Team in continuous flowering flower beds in a group with daylilies, irises or pelargoniums.
- Against the background of lush green boxwood or coniferous ornamental plants, peonies will stand out favorably and in the group will make an original decorative composition.
Planting and growing
In garden centers, planting material of peonies, as a rule, is represented by root cuttings. Sometimes you can find small rooted plants. In the presence of an adult plant, parts of the root system, which are obtained as a result of division during the autumn digging, are mainly used for propagation.
The choice of time and place
Peonies can be planted in open ground both in spring and in autumn. It is preferable to choose the second half of September - so the plant will have time to take root before the onset of cold weather and will start to grow in early spring.
Additional Information. Planting dates are directly dependent on climatic conditions. In the southern regions, they can change to earlier ones, and in the cold ones - to later ones.
Peony Commands Curfomances prefers sunny areas. But, given the predisposition of the plant's flowers to fade and quickly wither in the bright sun, it is better to place the plantings in a partially lit place. This implies that it will be fully covered only in the morning or afternoon. The site should be protected from strong gusts of wind, and also not subject to flooding in melt water in the spring.
Soil and flower preparation
Before planting, root cuttings or part of the root system must be washed under running water, to remove dried, damaged and too long roots. 6-8 hours before planting, they are soaked in water at room temperature, and then dried a little in the fresh air.
The soil in the area intended for peonies is prepared in advance. It is better to start these activities a year before landing. During the autumn digging, manure or compost is brought in, as well as sand. Disassembling in the spring is combined with the introduction of complex mineral fertilizers.
Attention! If it is not possible to prepare the site in advance, the soil from the planting pits is mixed with compost, sand and mineral fertilizers 3-4 days before planting.
Landing technology
The process of planting peonies is similar to the technology of planting ornamental shrubs. Procedure:
- 3-4 days before planting, prepare pits 40x50 cm in size. The depth of the pits depends on the size of the seedling and should exceed it 2 times. The distance between the recesses is 80-100 cm.
- At the bottom of each pit, a layer of compost is poured, 2-3 cm thick.
- The extracted soil is mixed with mineral fertilizer and rotted manure.
- Nutrient soil is poured in the form of a knoll into each depression.
- Roots or cuttings are placed so that when the soil settles, the kidneys are 7-10 cm below the soil level.
- Landings close up and abundantly watered.
- Sprinkle moist soil with a layer of dry earth.
Immediately after planting, seedlings need to be mulched. For this purpose, compost or dry manure is used. Mulching will prevent the evaporation of moisture and serve as a source of nutrition for plants in the spring.
Compost shelter in the fall is top dressing in the spring
Seed planting
Most often, it is recommended to remove wilted inflorescences and prevent the ripening of seeds. So the forces of the plant will be directed to the development of the root system.
The method of seed propagation is used only in breeding. For breeding of certain varieties, pollinating of flowers is carried out and for further experiments, seeds ripened on them are used.
Care Features
Peony Teams Performance is an ideal combination of high decorative qualities with unpretentiousness in leaving. There are few special requirements: a little more fertilizing and nutritious soil.
Basic requirements for growing:
- watering with warm, settled water as the soil dries up;
- fertilizing 4-5 times per season from early spring to September with a frequency of 3-4 weeks;
- mulching the soil or regularly loosening it;
- preventive treatment of a flower from diseases and parasites.
Mulching - an alternative to loosening
Bloom
The peak of activity of the peony of the Perfomas Teams is the flowering period. In the middle zone, it falls at the end of June - the beginning of July, and in warmer regions - in the middle of May. By the end of September, the plant gradually slows down and prepares for a dormant period.
During flowering, the peony needs regular top dressing and an increased frequency of watering. The last wilted flowers are removed along with peduncles, then the last top dressing is introduced and the frequency of watering is reduced.
If the peony does not bloom
In the absence of buds and flowers, you need to find the cause of the failure in the development of the plant. The main factors that may have an impact on this:
- non-compliance with the watering schedule;
- untimely application of fertilizers;
- improper soil composition.
Important! Very often, the plant refuses to bloom with a lack of sunny color. A sign of such a shortage will be not only the lack of buds, but also the stunting of shoots and leaves.
Care after flowering
The transplantation of peonies to a new place can begin only after flowering. Spend it the same way as planting the roots during reproduction. It is not recommended to transplant especially large plants, but if necessary, it is necessary to act very carefully.
In early autumn, peony begin to prepare for the cold. To do this, cut off all the shoots, shortening them to 10-15 cm. Cut parts can be laid on top as a preventive shelter.
In autumn, shoots are shortened to 10 cm
Attention! The variety of Teams Performance is very cold-resistant and can withstand even severe frosts, therefore it does not need shelter for the winter. But putting a layer of humus or dry manure to it, which will serve as spring fertilizer, will not hurt.
Diseases and Pests
The hybrid variety of Teams Performance is very rarely ill and needs only one preventative treatment before flowering. But he is not safe from the defeat of aphids and ants. If these parasites are found on the plant, it should be sprayed with an insecticide. For prevention, it is recommended to sprinkle the soil around the plantings with wood ash.
Peony Coral Performance - one of the leaders among varieties with large double flowers with red and red color. It is not only very decorative, but also very unpretentious. Even beginners can grow this crop on the site and enjoy plentiful flowering.
