I received a bare root peony to replace one I had bought
previously that was the wrong color. The wrong-color peony is also much taller
than the others in the arrangement.

The one I need to pull out has buds, though. I want to move
it to where the color won’t matter, not kill it. What’s the best time for doing
this? I’m thinking fall has been said before.

While I wait, should I pot up the bare-root one? It’s going
to an extra step to then have to plant in the ground again, but I know a
bare-root plant can’t wait long. I’d hoped it would arrive before much growth on
the one in the ground occurred, but we had an early spring, and that didn’t
happen.

Can I expect a growth set back from essentially planting the
bare root one twice? The bare root is
putting out leaves.