When is the best time to separate and transplant peonies?

Fall is the best time to transplant and separate your peony bushes. Remember to leave 3 eyes on each transplant to ensure blooming next spring. Also make sure you don't plant your transplants too deep. This can also keep them from blooming. Keep in mind peonies don't like to be messed with. Don't transplant unless you absolutely have to because of low light, crowding or non blooming issues.

When is the best time to separate and transplant peonies?
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Reply:Dig and divide in the fall. Actually, for nearly all flowering plants, you divide them opposite their flowering season. So, if they bloom in the spring, you divide them in the fall.





Peonies should only be moved in the early fall. It is however never a good idea to move a mature plant from point a to point b intact. The plant will do much better if, when you dig it up, you also divide it before replanting.





A mature plant that is moved without division is likely to just sit in its new location without flowers for some years. Newly planted divisions usually start vigorous growth immediately and will produce better quality plants.
Reply:In the fall.
Reply:You must be very careful, they do not like being moved.Do it now,and remember not to plant them too deep or they will not bloom.Make sure you dig up all the root, it will be long, (called a tap root.) Good luck! I love them!
Reply:You can do it in the summer if you can supply enough water to them but early spring, late winter is usually best...mark the location of them in the late fall so you remember where they are once they go dormant.
Reply:Excellent answer 4knowledge!! She's absolutely correct.

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