Peony supports | Troy Scott Smith from Sissinghurst explains how to stake peonies

Discover how to make peony supports in early spring with rustic bent hazel rods, as head gardener Troy Scott Smith does at the famous Sissinghurst Castle Gardens in Kent, UK.
Create a beautiful, natural plant support in a few simple steps.
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Filmed at the National Trust's Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, with thanks
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[@lottiephillips7805]

I can only have admiration for someone who is narrating whilst balancing and pushing hazel into the ground, shaping and fastening it🤣. Great video and will give this a try. I only have one peony at the moment, so it should be a quick job. Best wishes from Lottie in Suffolk.

[@ellenanthony8017]

String is my absolute very favorite invention of all time.

[@joantree8089]

Tried this. He is quite right, they can ping back up and hit you in the eye!

[@joannmicik1924]

This is a good method if you have hazel canes or something like, and you don't have a lot of peonies. The method I use is to drive two stakes into the ground at the 3 and 9 o'clock position, about 6-10 inches out from the main root ball. (all depends on size of plant). Then I put a sort of "girdle" of woven wire fencing that encircles the plants, only about 14-18 inches tall, just tall enough to keep the flowerheads from flopping to the ground. I leave the stakes in permanently, only remove the fencing in the winter when I trim the foliage to the ground. If the peonies are on a slope, it's only necessary to run the fence on the downhill side of the clump.

[@shanlynwebb]

I want to grow a hazel tree.

[@-1-2-1-]

ok thanks for the advice but unfortunately I don't have a nuttery to grow hazel to support my peonies. 🤨

[@lourdesdoty7765]

Willow works just as well!

[@jacalli]

Dogwood

[@mileschurch67]

How can wood be more sustainable than metal?

[@giardinibellissimi]

Truly strange question. What about industrial extraction of metal, production process, transport etc. etc. Hazel is very easy to grow, totally undemanding, fast and...it is grown and coppiced 90 seconds away from where Troy was using it! You cannot be more sustainable than that! (I live 10 minutes from Sissinghurst and Troy is an old friend, colleague and even my former boss. So, first hand information).

[@annashiegl]

Because those branches will grow back every year. 😊