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<\/a>I live in Bar Harbor on a hill where it is very windy. I routinely have mulch blown off the garden beds, petals blown off my daylily flowers, etc., when storms blow through. I have several tree peonies that have been in my perennial garden for the last three winters. Each winter I have been putting stakes around each plant and wrapping burlap around the stakes, and filling the burlap container with leaves. I used to live in MA with these same tree peonies and never wrapped them in the winter, but it was not super windy there. Should I continue to do this?<\/strong><\/p>\n