Peony Peter Brand: description, photo, planting and care

Peony Peter Brand is a Dutch breeding variety. The perennial plant has many erect stems that bear burgundy flowers. Culture is used to decorate flower beds. The frost resistance of the plant allows it to be grown in the climate.

Description of the herbaceous peony by Peter Brand

A variety of milky-flowered peony Peter Brand is a perennial culture, the life cycle of which is about 15 years. The Dutch variety quickly took a leading position in the ranking of the most popular peonies for its highly decorative and unpretentious care. Peter Brand is a herbaceous variety of culture with a high rate of frost resistance, the plant winters calmly at -350C.

Peony is found in the gardens of the Urals, Siberia, the European, Central and Middle stripes, the North Caucasus and the Crimea. According to varietal characteristics, it is possible to grow a peony throughout Our Country (except for the Far North).

The variety has a strong immunity to diseases. With proper agricultural practices, Peter Brand does not get sick.

Peony is popular because of its decorative appearance:

1. Herbaceous shrub Peter Brand grows up to 90 cm in height, forms a lush crown up to 0,5 m.
2. Numerous stems are stiff, strong, light brown with a red tint, with 1-3 buds at the top.
   
   

   The color of peony petals in a well-lit place is purple, in the shade it is closer to burgundy.

3. The leaves are large, dark green, lanceolate, pointed, with smooth edges. The surface is smooth, glossy, with a clearly defined central vein. The lower part of the plate is slightly pubescent.
4. The root system of the peony is powerful, rapidly growing, superficial, fibrous. Forms a root circle about 50-70 cm, the middle part is deepened.

Peony varieties Peter Brand refers to light-loving plants. Only with a sufficient amount of ultraviolet flowering and stalk formation are plentiful. It is possible to grow in a partially shaded area, but the color will not be saturated.

Features of flowering

Peony Peter Brand (Peter Brand) – mid-early variety that blooms in the second half of June. The duration of blooming buds is 2 weeks. The green mass persists until autumn, then dies off.

Characteristics of inflorescences:

• Peter Brand is a terry variety. Multi-petalled round flowers. Opened diameter is 20 cm. Flowers have a subtle unexpressed aroma;
• on each peduncle 1-3 flowers are formed with glossy petals wavy along the edge;
• the lower part of the petals is more prostrate, closer to the center the arrangement is concave, compact, covering the orange core;
• ruby color with a purple tint, in an older bush, the shade becomes dominant in color.

The center of the flower at the peony is red-orange, yellow anthers are located on thin stamen filaments

The splendor of flowering depends on the location and top dressing. The peculiarity of the peony is that the more primroses are cut, the larger and brighter the next buds will be.

Application in design

The Peter Brand variety has a voluminous root system; for growing a peony in stationary conditions, a large pot is needed: a width and depth of at least 60 cm, so that the plant forms a dense bush. If it is necessary to decorate a closed veranda, loggia or balcony with a Peter Brand peony, care should be taken that the culture has enough lighting. With a decrease in photosynthesis, the bush does not produce buds.

Peter Brand is much more comfortable outdoors. It is grown in gardens, in household plots, in city squares, in flower beds near administrative buildings. An ornamental herbaceous plant will decorate any landscape, regardless of location. The bright colors are in harmony with almost any plant that does not obscure the Peter Brand peony. The variety goes well in mixborders with flowering species: daylily, white roses, irises, hydrangea. Next to the peony can grow: decorative undersized shrubs, thuja, dwarf pines, zinnias, hellebore, pelargonium, petunia, geranium.

It is not recommended to plant Peter Brand near plants with a creeping root system, such as loosestrife, which tend to take up free space. The competition for food will not be in favor of the peony, it will be forced out of the site.

Peter Brand is undesirable to place next to crops that propagate by self-seeding. Plants with red flowers are not used in mixes; against the background of the bright Peter Brand variety, they will lose their attractiveness.

Examples of growing peonies in ornamental gardening:

1. In the foreground is a worker.
   
   

   Peonies of different colors, planted in a row for tamping trees, create a bright hedge

2. Include in the composition with flowering and coniferous crops.
   
   

   Peter Brand is ideally combined with yellow thuja needles

3. Used to design a recreation area.
   
   

   A Japanese-style garden without peonies will not be so bright

4. Peony Peter Brand as a tapeworm is placed in any part of the garden.
   
   

   Solo in the central part of the flower bed

5. Mass planting as a curb option.
   
   

   Peony varieties with white buds are used for a color accent.

6. Create flower beds on lawns and lawns.
   
   

   Peonies with a variety of colors of inflorescences are used as a central accent

Methods of reproduction

Peter Brand can be reproduced generatively. A peony grown from seeds completely retains the characteristics of the parent bush, but this method is rarely used, because it is laborious and time consuming. From sowing to flowering takes at least 4 years.

You can use vegetative methods: layering or cuttings, but they are not very effective.

It is most effective to propagate the peony by dividing the bush. The plant grows well, gives a lot of basal shoots and calmly reacts to transplantation. Any healthy bush older than three years is suitable for the procedure.

Rules of landing

If Peter Brand is propagated by dividing the bush, then they are planted on the site at the end of August. Seedlings of rooted seedlings are best placed in open ground in May, when the soil warms up well.

For a peony, an illuminated, ventilated area is allocated without stagnant water in the soil. The composition of the soil is neutral, diseases develop on acid, and alkaline inhibits vegetation. The soil is chosen light, fertile. The pit is dug two weeks before work. The depth of the planting hole is 70 cm, the width is about 60 cm. The bottom is covered with a layer of drainage, a nutrient mixture is immediately prepared from peat and compost, fluff lime, ash, potassium sulfate, superphosphate are added. The pit is filled with a substrate so that 20 cm is left to the edge.

Landing algorithm:

1. At the beginning of autumn, the mother bush is dug up, shaken off the ground or washed off, carefully divided into parts so as not to damage the young root processes.
2. Remove dry and weak tubers, cut the stems to the first vegetative buds.
3. Acquired specimens are planted in the spring along with an earthy clod, the shoots are not cut off.
4. Before planting, the pit is filled with water, soil and compost are mixed in equal proportions.
5. The peony is placed in the center, a bar is laid and the plant is tied to it so that the buds are in the ground no lower and no higher than 4 cm.
   
   

   Fixation will prevent deepening of the kidneys

6. Fall asleep with the prepared mixture.
7. The plant is spudded, watered, mulched.

The distance between adjacent peonies is left at least 120 cm.

Aftercare

Peony farming includes:

1. Watering. The plant is regularly moistened until the end of June, then it is watered three times in the last days of August, and in the fall a moisture charging procedure is carried out.
2. Nutrient application. Variety Peter Brand refers to a variety that requires constant feeding for lush flowering. In the spring, organic matter and urea are added. At the time of flower formation, spray with Bud. In the second half of June they fertilize with Agricola, in the fall they add potassium sulfate and superphosphate.
3. Mulching. In the spring, the trunk circle is covered with humus mixed with peat, if a crust appears on the root circle, the soil is loosened and weeds are constantly removed.

In the first season of bud formation, they are cut off from the side shoots, leaving only the central ones. After the end of the flowering phase, all the remaining ones are removed, the shoots are not touched until the onset of frost.

Preparation for winter

After the above-ground mass withers, the peonies are cut off completely, leaving 6-10 cm. In the first year of planting, the Peter Brand variety bush is covered with a thick layer of mulch, in the future, the plant does not need shelter. At the end of September, the peony is fed with organic matter and watered abundantly so that the water covers the root.

Pests and diseases

The plant is sick only with the wrong place, lack of nutrition and excessive watering. Waterlogged soil leads to the development of root rot. It is possible to reanimate a peony by transferring it to a dry, sunny place if the root is not severely affected. In damp soil and in the shade, a fungal infection (powdery mildew) spreads on the Peter Brand variety. The treatment of the bush with Fitosporin helps to get rid of the problem.

Fitosporin – a drug that completely destroys the fungus and its spores

The threat to the peony is the gall nematode, they get rid of the pest with Aktar.

The insecticide is bred according to the instructions, it is applied under the root not only to the patient, but also to nearby peonies

Conclusion

Peony Peter Brand is a bright representative of the terry variety. Culture with large lush dark ruby ​​flowers and a dense bush. The variety is mid-early, frost-resistant, it is grown throughout the temperate climate for decorative design of gardens, urban areas, home gardens, summer cottages.

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