SPRING PEONY CHORES: PLANTING PEONIES FROM SEED // SPRING TRANSPLANTS

hello everyone and welcome back to the Garden look at these peonies okay I admit the peonies are not blooming yet but I can't help it um I'm just so excited they're one of my favorite flowers um I know people ask me what my favorite flowers are it changes all the time but uh I have a lot of peoni related chores to do right now so I thought I would make a video about it and show you now if you've been following along on the channel you know that these are the peion roots or tubers or clusters I'm not really quite sure the correct word um to use that I planted last year I ordered several of these in the fall they arrived in the all you see they have their little growth eyes they're ready to go and I just laid them out on some landscape fabric this was the very first um one of the very first plantings in this new garden and I ended up just you know kind of creating this layout hoping to keep the weeds out and that over time this will you know kind of establish itself into a really nice peony bed it's quite the investment for sure and quite a lot of work so these are coming up already and they look absolutely phenomenal but um I found these pieces of peon that had been tossed into a bucket just into growing buckets just in my yard I don't know what I was doing or where they came from but I was just like oh no like these are just sitting here what am I going to do so uh I planted them so now they are in the little peony field as well so thumbs up there uh next I wanted to show you that I have several packets of peion seeds these peion seeds came from the American peion society which I'm a member of which is very exciting this will be my second year Growing Seeds from the peion society um you'll see some more here in a second but uh this year I really wanted to focus it on trying to grow some tree varieties um you can see the seeds are quite big um the amount of seeds varies depending upon packet usually it's about 5 to 15 is what I found depending on upon the type so in the past I've sewed seeds directly into beds and into larger containers this year I've opted for these smaller containers and I am just putting about three seeds into each container so um when these germinate uh we shouldn't have any kind of trouble separating them or anything like that I've never grown tree peonies specifically from a seed but all the other peonies that I've grown from seed I've had pretty good germination rates with so I expect that this will be um you know this will be a good technique as long as I'm keeping these well watered and taken care of throughout the season these are not going to germinate this season probably these are just going to hang out in my yard until they germinate next spring um here in a second I'll show you some that I actually planted last year into beds uh they got overrun with weeds a little bit fortunately I got in there and I weeded it so these little tiny seedlings are actually the the seeds that I planted last year um they just kind of hung out in the garden all year long and here they are finally making an appearance this first season they're just going to have this kind of uh I don't know I'm sure there's a name for this Leaf I just can't think of it off the top of my head I apologize for that um I wanted to show you ones that I planted the year before last these are second year um I dug these out of some containers that had gotten kind of lost in the move these are my second year plants you can see they're starting to Leaf out they have their first true leaves for the first time which is so insanely exciting um this is kind of my first Venture into growing peonies from seed you can see look at that little stinking cute little tuber root or this his just little adorable root I can't get over it um hopefully there won't be too much of a problem with the fact that I dug these out and planted them in spring into a new container hopefully I didn't disturb them too much but it was kind of the only option I had because uh a lot of stuff got shuffled and moved around during that move and was not ideal you know sometimes things just don't go according to plan but um I did want to show you guys this I think it's adorable I think it's awesome I'm so excited to grow peonies from seed um so glad to have you along with me for the ride and I guess that's about it I guess I'm just waiting patiently for them to continue to grow out in the field and hopefully we will have more gorgeous blooms this year I know it's just a slow process getting all these plants established and uh waiting for them to start to bloom but hopefully we'll have some really gorgeous floral displays that's it for this video thank you so much for watching I appreciate you so much you're awesome uh without you this would not be possible and I sincerely mean that thank you so much I hope you're having a really really great day you totally deserve it and I'll talk to y'all later bye [Music]