Grade Duchesse de Nemours - Peony in the Russian Garden

More and more often in Russian gardens you can see milky-white caps of a beautiful herbaceous perennial peony with the exotic name "Duches de Nemours". This peony is characterized as an ornamental flowering plant that forms a large shrub growing to 1 m in height. We will get acquainted with this culture, its preferences, peculiarities of agricultural technology and necessary care.

Peony "Duches de Nemours": description

Flower growers are fond of this magnificent perennial, which is not surprising, since a rare garden plant can compete with other varieties in endurance, decorativeness and longevity. Such is he, Duches de Nemours is a peony, which for a long time occupies the first places in sales in the Dutch flower market.

A medium-late-flowering variety, it forms a dense, spreading bush with magnificent dark-green complex-dissected leaves and adorable large inflorescences up to 16 cm in diameter.

Flowers at peony are terry, crowned. Their color is interesting: the outer petals are snow-white with a slightly noticeable greenish base, the crown is very dense milky-white. Flowers exude a pleasant fresh fragrance. The duration of flowering of the bush is about 18-20 days. However, the figured form of dense foliage, located on strong root shoots, maintains the elegant ornamentation of the bush until the end of the season.

This variety is characterized by stability in cutting, flowers do not lose their quality for 10 days. In the garden interior the plant is used in landscape ensembles and single plantings.

Culture preferences

Duches de Nemours is a peony with enviable winter hardiness and shade, but it blooms more abundantly in sufficiently illuminated areas. Shelter for the winter is required only for young bushes, adults perfectly tolerate the hardships of the winter period. This variety is unpretentious to the soil structure, but it grows more successfully on fertile sandy loam and loam. Planted on a site with fertilized loose soil, Duchesse de Nemours will not require additional fertilization during the next 2-3 years. After planting blooms for the third year.

Landing

The variety is easily multiplied by dividing the bush, which is carried out closer to the beginning of autumn.

Pits under the planting are excavated at a distance of 0.6-0.7 m, since peony bushes are spread out. The soil on the selected site is prepared in advance, digging and introducing on a square meter of 10 kg of quality organic - humus or compost, 50 g superphosphate. The dimensions of the landing pit are traditional - 50x50. It is filled in a quarter of the fertilized soil, it is placed in it, trying to keep the growth buds from being buried and at the level of the earth's surface. If this condition is not met during planting, the plant may not bloom.

Caring events

Duchesse de Nemours - a peony unpretentious, but responds to the manifestation of care more generous flowering. Under winter, the stems are cut almost at the base, leaving the hemp 2-3 cm, and mulch the bush with peat or compost.

In spring and summer, the bush should be watered regularly, being guided by the weather conditions of the region. In droughty periods, the intensity of moistening increases. Periodically arrange loosening of the soil and remove the weeds.

From the third year of life, the peony is fed twice in the season: in the spring 2-3 kg of humus are applied to the bush, and after the flowering - 30 grams of phosphorus-potassium fertilizers. Stems of the plant can not be cut until the beginning of autumn, because in August the plant intensively lays flower buds.

Peony Duches de Nemours enjoys well-deserved respect among the florists of many countries. He combines the unpretentiousness of the ascetic with the surprisingly high decorativeness of the king of the garden. This variety, like many white peonies, photos of which are published in different sources, is worth it to plant it in your own garden.