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Old 08-01-2008, 06:06 AM   #1
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Default Don't know where I'm going wrong. . .

I've noticed this year that many of my flowers (peonies and roses) along with some of my herbs are not blooming. A few are doing very well; but some only have one plant that will have a flower blooming on it while the others that are the same don't have any flowers at all.

Am I doing something wrong or did I plant them wrong?

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Old 08-01-2008, 08:39 PM   #2
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If peonies are planted too deep they don't bloom well. If they were newly transplanted in the last 2 to 3 years, they will often take time to re-establish themselves before blooming again.

You don't say what type of roses or how and when you pruned them, if you did at all, so it's difficult to say what the problem is. An example could be improperly pruning climbing roses and/or not growing them so their canes are horizontal at some point. Growing them horizontally will get you more blooms. If these were grafted roses and you pruned below the graft, then what you have now is the rootstock and your flowers won't look the same. It can also take plants that have been pruned this way a couple of years before you have blooms.

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Overfertilizing with nitrogen can also cause lots of leafy green growth at the expense of flowers for many plants.
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