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3 practical ways to keep peonies from flopping over, recommended by garden experts, for happier, stronger blooms

Pink peonies and white foxgloves growing in garden.

You can’t beat the gorgeous, fluffy flower of a peony, and being the peak peony season right now in the UK, now is the best time to enjoy these lovely flowers. If yours have gone all floppy, they can be more sad-looking than stunning. Luckily, garden experts have revealed three practical measures to stop your peonies from flopping over.

If you’ve dedicated hours of your time to growing peonies and nurturing them, then you'll see that the result is huge, showy blooms. Only these flowers can be disproportionately larger than the stem, causing the peony to look floppy.

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