Tree peony blooms every other year
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Fritillaria imperialis withers away every year without blooming
Comments (1)Mine behaves the same. I think it's due to summer heat. Even daily weatering doesn't help the flowering....See MoreImidacloprid every or every other year for aphids?
Comments (3)It might be of interest to US gardeners to know that Imidacloprid (as well as Thiomethoxam) has just been withdrawn from use in the European Union for 2 years while more research is carried out into the effects of neonicotinoids on bee populations. This in response to a report by the European Food Safety Authority which identified potential risks to bee health from the chemicals. Lindens are bee magnets when in bloom. Lindens get very large and attempting to keep them aphid free is going to be an enormous and never ending job. They just get aphids - that is their nature. If that is a real problem to you I would be inclined to choose a different tree. Have you tried just pointing the hose at the tree and spraying it forcefully every so often? Also I don't think there is any point in fertilising an established 24 year old tree. Here is a link that might be useful: Imidacloprid...See Morebloom every year?
Comments (3)They're not actually "bulbs", they're tubers (or corms). You need to understand the life cycle of amorphs. The tuber withers/dies each season and is replaced by a new one. The leaf produces the nutrients for the new tuber. The bigger the leaf, the bigger the tuber it produces. And the bigger the tuber, the bigger the leaf it produces in the next season. So you progressively get a bigger tuber and a bigger leaf. Once it reaches flowering size the reserves stored in the tuber go into the flower. There's usually enough left in the tuber to start a new leaf after the flower withers. Then it depends on how well that cycle of tuber and leaf feeding each other goes. Often the new tuber doesn't reach flowering size before the end of the season. You need to feed them well to have them flowering in consecutive years....See MoreBlooms Every Other Year
Comments (1)No. They can usually get back on an annual cycle if you deadhead them. Some plants can actually produce so much seed that they don't bloom much the following year. Removing the wilted flowers before they produce seed should break the cycle. For information, go to the link below and click on "Sanitation & Deadheading". Another technique some people use is to remove some flower buds before they open to increase the quality of bloom. The critical element is, you must wait until you can tell the difference between flower buds and foliage buds. You only want to reduce the number of flower buds. Still other people contain the size of a plant by removing foliage buds before they open on the top of the plant. Again, you must wait until you can tell the difference between foliage and flower buds. Here is a link that might be useful: How to deadhead azaleas....See MoreRelated Professionals
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