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I'm looking at putting a tree peony into a bed in my backyard... but I'm hesitating. The location gets full or nearly full sun (all day except very late in the afternoon). I'm in zone 7, in northern Virginia. The soil is somewhat heavy, but has been amended quite a bit with compost, etc, so it's not too bad. The issue: tree peonies are said to be sensitive to overwatering, and while I can manage to control my own watering with no problem, there's obviously nothing I can do about the rain - and it's very common around here to have rainy spells that go on for a week at a time. This is particularly common in the fall, when we have tropical storms, etc, blow through, but it happens a lot in the springtime as well.
Any thoughts on whether a tree peony would survive this kind of thing? They're kind of expensive to put in as an experiment.
smokey
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