Peonies - frequent guests in the gardens and on the dacha plots.Their lush flowers and delicate aroma are often associated with the exams and the last bell at school. A short bloom once a year - perhaps the main drawback of this beautiful flower. Because of this, he also creates difficulties for florists: many brides want to see a peony in their wedding bouquet, and it is almost impossible or very expensive to make it in the fall or winter.
But this situation is not hopeless. To help gardeners aesthetes and charming brides come flowers that look like peonies. How are these plants called and how they look, you will learn later in the article.
Beautiful twin
Most often, as an alternative to peony chooseranunculus This plant is from the buttercup family, to be more precise, it is an Asian buttercup. Unlike your field relative, whom you met on the lawns outside the city, he has lush buds that come in different shades - from delicate pastels to dramatic purple-violet. This flower, similar to peony and rose, blooms from June to August, some species bloom even until October and early November. Many brides also like white ranunculus, which blooms in early spring.
Bud in size is smaller than peony, lush, thin petals are arranged in a circle and often reveal green or black stamens, which give a beautiful contrast to the overall gamut of the flower.
Many-sided beauties
It would seem that everyone knows what a peony and a rose look like. Nothing to do, right? And no. Among the roses there are flowers like peonies. These varieties are:
- Sweet Juliet - a flower with this gentle name has a very lush multi-layered bud, and its smell is simply divine. It blooms throughout the summer and early autumn.
- Eden Rose - a variety with large double flowers, light aroma and very long flowering.
- May rose (Rose de Mai) - a varietyrose hip with a stunning aroma from which to make rose oil. This flower, like a peony, has a very large bud with a mass of petals, most often it is pale pink in color, but there are also red-purple hues.
- Роза Остина или Английская роза – несмотря на то that in size its bud is almost three times smaller than a pion, they are often confused. In fact, there are many subspecies of this flower, and their flowering period is very wide. Their smell is bright and saturated, because the breeder in the first place put the shape and aroma of the plant. Moreover, a characteristic feature of the “stem” is two flowering periods per year.
Many roses grow beautifully in greenhouses, sothey are by and large a year-round alternative to pions. The listed varieties are only a part of the species, in which flowers resemble peonies. In fact, they are much more.
Not only on March 8
Traditionally, tulips are associated with our women's day. But such a flower, similar to a peony, will be able to decorate a bridal bouquet.
Unconventional choice
There are even more exotic options.For example, eustoma has a flower that looks like a peony, but the shape of a bud is somewhat different - in the form of a bell, and it is much smaller in size. In the bouquet, she looks tender and romantic. On the stem can be several flowers that stand in a vase for a long time - up to 2 weeks. Having fully blossomed, eustoma is very similar to small peonies. Its flowering begins in June and continues until early autumn.
A pion-shaped poppy terry specially bred to mimic a pion. Unlike a field relative, he has a lot of delicate fine petals.
White terry cloves can also play this role. By themselves, they are too small, but a few interconnected buds give a peony-like flower.
Not similar in shape to petals, but nothingsome varieties of chrysanthemums are inferior in pomp and volume. They begin to bloom in late summer and before the first frost delight us with its beauty. A peony-like flower can be found in the Antonov, Shamrock, Regina White, White Korean varieties.
Lush bud can be found among the camellias. There are even special varieties similar to peonies.
Dahlia also has subspecies with lush terry inflorescences, rounded petals and pale pink color.
