Hi everyone,
I live in North-central Massachusetts. We've had a pretty erratic winter here. The most recent being a nice blizzard and then a strong snow storm with temps dropping way below freezing. I have four new peony roots that I planted last fall--all had beautiful eyes, but I was very insecure about how to plant them. I hope I did it correctly.
Before the storms, I didn't see any new growth even though some of my other plants had started showing their potential. Regardless, I covered my potential peonies with an extra layer of pine needles until there was about 5 or so inches of the stuff, and then covered each of them with plastic bells. The two most recent storms dropped over 16 inches of snow, completely covering the bells.
Temps are up now bringing us into the low 50's and a lot of that snow is gone. I just removed the bells and pulled back the pine needles to look for new growth and found....nothing.
Nights will still drop down to around 30F or so, and the last frost date in this area is toward early May, although some charts list it as June (?????)
I'm just wondering when I might see a bit of new peony growth? Is it normal that there's nothing there right now, or did I somehow kill them?
Thanks for any advice.
