I have a couple peonies
growing in the garden of my new house. They recently flowered, and they looked lovely, but the
flowers are weighing the stalks down, so that they're leaning over and some are touching the ground. Even before they flowered the stalks were heavy and leaning.
The
flowers are dying now, and the petals are shedding like crazy, but the stalks are still leaning way over. I want to
plant some other stuff around them, but the stalks are taking up a whole bunch of space by the way they're leaning.
How do I deal with this? Should I stake each individual stalk? Or not bother now that they've flowered?
And once the
flowers die completely, should I cut off the stalks?
Ronni