A flower that looks like a peony. What are flowers called pions

Peonies are frequent guests in the gardens and suburban areas. Their lush flowers and delicate fragrance are associated with many at times with exams and the last call in school. A short bloom once a year is perhaps the main drawback of this beautiful flower. Because of this, it also creates difficulties for florists: many brides want to see a peony in their wedding bouquet, and it is almost impossible or very costly to do it in autumn or winter.

But this situation is not hopeless. To help gardeners-esthetes and charming brides come flowers, like peonies. How are called and how such plants look, you will find out later in the article.

Beautiful double

Most often, as an alternative to the pion, they chooseRanunculus. This plant from the family of buttercups, to be more precise, is the buttercup asian. Unlike his field relative, whom you met on lawns outside the city, he has lush buds that come in a variety of shades - from delicate pastel to dramatic purple-violet. This flower, like a peony and a rose, blossoms from June to August, some species bloom even before October and early November. Many brides also like the white Ranunculus, which dissolves early in the spring.

In size, the bud is smaller than the peony, lush, thin petals are arranged in a circle and often open green or black stamens that give a beautiful contrast to the overall range of the flower.

Many-faced beauties

It would seem that everyone knows what the peony and rose look like. Nothing to do, right? And here not. Among the roses there are flowers that look like peonies. These are the varieties:

Sweet Juliet - a flower with this gentle name is a very lush multi-layer bud, and its smell is simply divine. It dissolves throughout the summer and early autumn.
Eden Rose - a variety with large double flowers, light aroma and very long flowering.
The Rose of Mai (Rose de Mai) is a varietyrose hips with a stunning aroma, from which make rose oil. This flower, like a peony, has a very large bud with a mass of petals, most often it is gently pink, but there are also red-violet hues.
Rose Austin or the English rose - despite thatthat the size of its bud is almost three times less than the pion, they are often confused. In fact, there are many subspecies of this flower, and the period of their flowering is very wide. The smell of them is bright and rich, because the breeder in the first place put the shape and aroma of the plant. Moreover, a characteristic feature of "ostinoks" is two flowering periods in a year.

Many roses grow beautifully in greenhouses, sothey are by and large a year-round alternative to pions. The varieties listed are only a part of the species with flowers that look like peonies. In fact, there are many more.

Not only on March 8

Traditionally, tulips are associated with us on a woman's day. But such a flower, like a peony, can decorate and a bouquet of the bride.

Terry tulips come in different shades andsplendor. Among them, two groups of flowers are distinguished, depending on the flowering period. Early ones differ in buds up to 8 cm in diameter and pointed petals, and late ones have a bud up to 12 cm in diameter with rounded petals. The height of the flower is also different - the first grow to 40 cm, and the second - up to 60 cm.

Unconventional choice

There are even more exotic options. For example, the eustoma has a flower resembling a peony, but the shape of the bud is somewhat different - in the form of a bell, and it is much smaller in size. In the bouquet she looks gently and romantically. On the stem there can be several colors that stand in the vase for a long time - up to 2 weeks. Completely blossoming, eustoma is very similar to small peonies. Its flowering begins in June and lasts until early autumn.

Mac python terry is specially bred to simulate the peony. Unlike the field relative, he has a lot of delicate petals.

White terry studs can also play this role. In themselves, they are too small, but a few buds, connected together, give a flower that looks like a peony.

They do not look like petals, but they do notyield in the splendor and volume of some varieties of chrysanthemums. They begin to bloom at the end of summer and until the first frosts please us with their beauty. A flower resembling a peony can be found in the Antonov, Shamrock, Regina White, White Korean variety.

A lush bud can be found among the camellias. Even there are special varieties, similar to peonies.