Peony Red Grace - a powerful variety, with huge flowers (up to 18 cm) dark red sparkling color with a crimson hue. Refers to terry bomb-shaped hybrids. Decorates the garden with its magnificent flowering for the second year after planting.
Peony «Red Grace» - description
The variety was released "to the masses" in 1980. Characterized by rapid rooting and reproduction. Flowers large, beautiful dark cherry shade. The height of the stems reaches 90 cm, the stems are strong, so the peony "Red Grace" is successfully used both for cutting and for landscape compositions.
The flower is dense median, its outer petals are round and even. Leaves are small in size, medium green. There are no side buds. Flowering is early, the fragrance from the flowers is weak. Externally, the peony bush of this variety looks very elegant.
How to plant a peony "Red Grace"?
Like all peonies, the hybrid variety "Red Grace" loves sunny and well-ventilated areas. In the lowlands it can not be planted because of the risk of spring flooding and the accumulation of water during the summer torrential rains. They do not tolerate a close lodging of groundwater.
In the shade, peonies bloom worse, because you need to choose areas with shading no more than 5-6 hours a day. Since planting pions - the most important stage of their cultivation, it should be done with all responsibility. Remember that you are laying down the beauty of the garden for several years ahead.
Since the brand "Red Grace" is early, it is necessary to plant it first. Pits under the planting should be prepared in a month, breaking it 40-50 cm deep and 60-70 cm wide.
Neutral loamy compounds are ideal as a soil: a mixture of garden land with a 2-year humus, last year's manure, biohumus and sand. In addition, in each pit add wood ash or dolomite flour and 1-2 spoons of superphosphate and complex mineral fertilizer .
The delenka is laid in a prepared pit and covered with garden soil without fertilizers, compacting it so that the buds are buried 3-5 cm deep.