Almost every garden has a beautiful flower garden, which is decorated with peonies familiar to many with their rainbow colors. This spectacular plant with fluffy inflorescences in the form of balls and double petals is considered the epitome of beauty in China. In the photo in our gallery you can see how beautifully white, pale pink, red, purple inflorescence balls look against the background of dark green foliage.
Peony flowers: photo, main characteristics
Peonies can be shrubs, shrubs, or even herbaceous plants. They have several stems, large rhizomes and trifoliate or pinnate leaves... The leaf plate can be dark green, dark purple or blue-gray.
The size of single inflorescences of peonies depends on the variety, and can reach 15 to 15 cm in diameter. Their color varies from white to dark red.
Classification of peonies - photo
All peonies are shaped like a flower are classified into five main groups:
Non-double peonies are a plant with straight stems, on top of which beautiful inflorescences of various colors are formed. Their flowers consist of 5-10 large petals located in the center of the pistils and numerous stamens with golden pollen.- Semi-double peonies are distinguished by their lush flowers, which consist of a large number of wide, large petals.
- Terry peonies are a plant with wide outer petals located near the center. Their stamens are hidden by petals or modified into petals.
- Anemous plants are distinguished by wide petals located in several rows and large staminodes in the center of the inflorescence. Most often, staminodes are yellow, but they can also have a different color.
- Japanese peonies are intermediate plants between simple and double flowers. Their stamens of red, pink or yellow color are modified in staminodes.
According to their varieties, peonies are divided into milky-flowered and hybrid... They all have a different color and a different shape of inflorescences.
Milk-flower peonies: varieties, photos
Flowers of this species can be double red, pink or white, anemic or Japanese in shape. Among all the colors, the most popular are white peonies with double flowers. In the photo, you can see that their petals have different shades.
Varieties of milky-flowering white peonies:
- Variety "Ave Maria" - the plant is a bush 80 cm high, on the shoots of which light pink flowers with a diameter of 16 cm bloom.
- Variety "Antarctica" is distinguished by double pure white flowers, which reach 13 cm in diameter and have a pleasant smell.
- The variety "white sail" is a shrub 90 cm high. Its white buds have a creamy backlight inside.
- Variety "Bridel Ising" is a plant with erect stems 70 cm high and white double flowers with yellow illumination.
- The Gladys Hodson variety is distinguished by pink-shaped double creamy buds with a pink tint. The height of the bush reaches one meter.
- Variety "Duchesse de Nemours" is a shrub 100 cm high. On the shoots of the plant, crown-like double white flowers with a lemon tint are formed. The diameter of each flower is 15 cm.
- The variety "Ze Admiral" is distinguished by large buds, which are white in color with flashes of crimson color. The bush reaches a height of 90 cm.
- The Karina Versan variety is a tall shrub with pink double flowers. The petals located along the edge are creamy, and the center of the flower is pink.
- The Matchless Beauty variety is a bush 80 cm high. At the beginning of summer, white buds, framed by a wide yellow crown, open on it.
- The Munglou variety is distinguished by its creamy flowers, which have a green sheen from the inside of the staminodes. The diameter of each inflorescence is 18 cm.
Hybrid varieties of peonies - photo
The Chinese believe that the whole history of decorative floriculture began with the cultivation and cultivation of peonies in gardens. These discreet and exquisite flowers grow well in partial shade and practically not supported by diseases. The most decorative and popular among gardeners are the following varieties of hybrid peonies:
The Janice hybrid is a short bush with strong stems and creamy-scarlet medium-sized flowers, the petals of which have a net pattern.- The Altai Novosti variety can reach a height of one and a half meters. Its sprawling, powerful stems are covered with beautiful carved leaves. On each shoot, two or three buds are formed with corrugated petals of amethyst-carmine color.
- Hybrid "Athena" is distinguished by flowers with a shade of ivory. On all petals, carmine strokes seem to turn into "splashes". During flowering, their tone can change from cream to pale cream.
- The "Aristocrat" variety is a shrub up to 70 cm high. At the beginning of summer, red buds form on it, the petals of which are distinguished by a silvery edging.
- Hybrid "Diana Parks" is a plant 70 cm high, on the shoots of which pink-shaped double flowers of a red-orange hue bloom. The diameter of each opened bud is 15 cm.
- The “Ballerina” variety belongs to interspecific hybrids and is distinguished by white double flowers with a greenish tint.
Species peonies - photo
They are in no way inferior in beauty to hybrid plants growing in nature species peonies... One of them is the Maryin root, which grows well and blooms beautifully in many garden plots. Its bloom begins in May. Up to 50 buds can form and bloom on one plant at once. Maryin root is easily propagated by seeds, which are sown in spring or before winter.
Besides the famous peony Maryin root, species plants include:
Peony "Ruble Plena" - a plant with hemispherical double buds, consisting of shiny dark red petals.- The Rosea Plena variety is distinguished by hemispherical crown flowers, which have a dark pink hue at the beginning of flowering. Over time, their petals fade.
- Peony "Alba Plena" is a bush 60 cm high, on the shoots of which white hemispherical double flowers form and bloom.
Blooming beautiful peonies starts in early summer... This process is accompanied by a wonderful honey aroma and the buzzing of bees scurrying around the buds. Huge blossoming flowers of various colors will decorate any corner of the garden with their extraordinary beauty.
