0:00 well it's cold and damp outside but

0:01 inside the shed it's lovely and cozy

0:04 and we're getting ahead of the game as

0:06 always looking on the bright side

0:08 pianist now i do like paintings my mum

0:10 like peonies so i like peonies

0:13 and

0:14 these loose grown ones are the best

0:16 you see they're starting to bud

0:18 they've just arrived in the post just

0:20 like this

0:21 look at that they're beautiful things

0:23 those are bursting with health ready to

0:25 go

0:25 and it's so simple to do

0:27 but fully enough the one thing that

0:29 penis hates and they're very

0:31 accommodating really the one thing they

0:33 hate is being disturbed

0:35 so to grow them on for say get ahead of

0:38 the game for six weeks early what you've

0:40 got to do is a few crocks in the bottom

0:42 of your pot

0:44 just like that that's allows the

0:46 moisture to drain away and it's it

0:48 makes life easy for the peony

0:51 a good layer of compost in the bottom

0:54 and then your peony

0:56 you can see where it's growing the eyes

0:58 are coming out so it obviously goes that

1:00 way up

1:01 and i'll tell you what these are really

1:03 lovely plants

1:04 for best quality you can buy these

1:06 absolutely barn on

1:08 place that in there

1:11 now the beauty of the next thing is

1:13 these resent disturbances so what you're

1:14 going to do is you're going to grow it

1:16 on in this pot we're going to mix a

1:18 little a fish blood and bone this is but

1:20 grow more

1:22 bone meal would do just a general

1:23 fertilizer because it's a gross feed it

1:26 puts on a lot of growth lots of foliage

1:29 just mix that in with the next layer of

1:31 compost that you're putting on

1:34 so you put a good layer of compost it's

1:35 a multi-purpose compost so it's got feed

1:37 in it anyway

1:39 a good layer of multi-purpose compost in

1:42 now the only thing you're going to do

1:44 with this is put it outside not inside

1:47 not in a greenhouse

1:49 just outside it's used to the cold and

1:51 the damp it's been dug up out of a field

1:55 place press that in tap it down now that

1:58 goes outside now it resents disturbance

2:01 it doesn't like it if you dig a plant up

2:02 a peony plant in the garden and move it

2:05 it won't like you for it

2:08 if you plant it at all wrong it will

2:10 dislike you intently and probably not

2:13 flower for you with this

2:16 as that's grown in the pot when you come

2:17 to pot it on

2:19 knock it out dig the hole

2:21 the same size

2:23 put it in the same level that's the

2:25 important thing keep that

2:27 at the same level of soil

2:29 plant that in and it won't know it's

2:31 been disturbed and it will grow on and

2:33 you're six weeks ahead of the game but

2:35 peony flowers are beautiful

2:37 and the few varieties that you get are

2:39 doubles and they're stunning things now

2:42 there's lots and lots of varieties of

2:43 peonies

2:44 there's three really good ones that to

2:46 start off with that's a double peony

2:48 called sarah boonhart most people know

2:50 that one it's a double pink

2:52 or the alba plena which is creamy white

2:56 rubra plena dark red those are the three

2:59 main ones beautiful colors but then

3:01 there's others peony top brass are

3:03 tri-coloured white outer petals with a

3:06 yellow and pink ruffled center

3:08 oh i tell you what that's worth growing

3:10 or peony bowl of beauty

3:13 gigantic bowl shaped flowers pink with a

3:15 creamy center

3:16 penny lactaphoria sorbet

3:19 that's a mouthful lactoflora sorbet

3:22 spectacular triple layered blooms of

3:24 pink and cream coral sunset deep orange

3:28 buckeye bell giant semi-double deep

3:30 maroon flowers

3:32 or mrs gf hammerick deep rose and yellow

3:36 ruffled centers i wonder what mrs

3:38 hammerick was like

3:39 but i tell you what she could have been

3:41 any prettier than these double flowered

3:43 peonies beautiful

3:45 try and plant it out the wind if you can

3:47 because they don't like a lot of

3:48 whapping about because it tends to

3:50 damage the flowers but other than that

3:52 it's an absolute must for a decent

3:54 garden

3:55 peonies can't go wrong

4:04 now i am well pleased with these they're

4:06 beautiful the buds are starting to come

4:08 out nice sheltered spot just by the

4:10 garage here so the wind's not going to

4:12 blow around too much but they're

4:14 beautiful look at the growth just

4:15 remember the few little things

4:17 the same depth as in the pot the same

4:19 depth in the ground and if you can try

4:22 and put them in a place where you know

4:23 you're just going to leave them alone

4:24 and they look beautiful and

4:26 they'll actually perform every year

4:29 they hate being moved around so if you

4:31 can avoid it don't do it but

4:33 peonies are beautiful and most in

4:35 anybody's garden these beautiful things