In that regard, most peonies species are reduced to shrubs during winter, but at this.

How to Care for a Peony Bush in the Fall Cutting Back Foliage. If you have herbaceous peonies, remove all the old stems in late fall after the first frost turns Providing Winter Protection. Protect peonies from the winter cold, especially in colder areas of their hardiness zones. Pruning Shrubs. Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.

Peonies grow nearly all of their roots in the cooling soils of fall. Rooting is triggered in response to the falling temperatures of soil and allows plants to develop an underground support structure for the following growing shrubgrinding.barted Reading Time: 4 mins. Mar 26, Learn how to plant bare root tree peonies from La Pivoinerie D'Aoust peony nursery in Hudson, QC. shrubgrinding.barhor: pivoinerie. May 05, Tree Peonies can be moved in the fall once the plant is dormant (ideally, after Labor Day).

Moving it now will severely stress the plant and potentially kill it or retard it's growth such that it will take years to recover.