White peonies: large, for the garden, beautiful, double, the best varieties with photos

White peonies are especially highly valued by gardeners; such flowers cannot be missed on the site. Numerous varieties deserve detailed study, since they can vary greatly in shape and size.

Variety of white peonies

Snow-white flowers are usually divided into several categories. First of all, peonies are:

tree-like;
Tree varieties reach 2 m in height
herbaceous.
Herbaceous varieties usually do not exceed 1 m

White peony flowers are also distinguished by structural features. The following main types can be distinguished:

non-double;
Non-double buds are small and consist of 5-10 petals
terry and semi-double;
Double and semi-double - “fluffy” buds with numerous petals and large wide stamens
anemone-shaped, or Japanese;
The anemone-like shape of the bud is a kind of flattened bowl of petals with stamens in the center

Peonies are classified according to their flowering time.The earliest varieties bloom in early June, the later ones in early July.

The best varieties of white peonies

Before purchasing a plant for your site, it is worth studying the varieties of white peonies with photos and descriptions. This will help you understand which types will look best in your garden.

Duchess de Nemours

The peony variety Duchesse de Nemours enters the decorative period after June 20th. The buds of the perennial are double, white with a yellowish-milky center, up to 16 cm in diameter. The bush itself rises 1 m above the ground and can grow in lighted areas and in light shade. The frost resistance of the variety is average - up to - 20 ° C.

Duchess de Nemours can fade to pure white when grown in the sun.

Anastasia Sosnovets

Also found under the name Anastasiya, reaches 1.5 m in height. The buds are medium-sized, without terry, with two rows of petals; in the photo of a white peony you can see the fuchsia color at the base. There are dark yellow stamens in the center of the flower. The variety blooms after June 10.

Peony Anastasia Sosnovets is characterized by increased frost resistance up to - 40 ° C

White Swan

The white peony of domestic selection, which is also found under the name Lybed, has double spherical buds of a milky shade. It blooms in early June and remains decorative for 3 weeks, all this time emitting a pleasant aroma. The bush itself rises to 80 cm in height.

The buds of the White Swan variety can reach 20 cm and are suitable for bouquets

Lotus Queen

The white peony Lotus Queen is a Japanese-type variety with bowl-shaped buds. The outer petals of the perennial are snow-white; in the center of the flower there are yellow stamens with curled tips. The bush reaches 90 cm in height and blooms after June 15.

Lotus Queen inflorescences are about 17 cm in diameter

Maria

The tall peony Maria, or Ave Maria, can stretch up to 140 cm. The buds of the variety are semi-double, with snow-white petals, slightly wavy at the edges. A slight pink tint is noticeable in the core of the flower. The decorative period begins in June.

The buds of the Maria variety are very large, up to 19 cm in diameter

Iceberg

The white terry peony Iceberg bears creamy large buds from June 20 - central and lateral. It blooms profusely, is well suited for cutting, and emits a pleasant rose aroma. It grows up to 90 cm in height.

The white Iceberg peony is valued not only for its visual attractiveness, but also for its resistance to disease.

Cora Louise

Cora Louise is a hybrid bred on the basis of tree and herbaceous peonies, and grows up to 1 m. The buds of the variety are cup-shaped, creamy-white in color with a slight pinkish tint. In the center there is a dark lilac spot and bright yellow stamens. White peony blooms in mid-June.

The Cora Louise variety exudes a light refreshing aroma during flowering.

Rose Marie Lens

Rose Marie Lins is one of the most beautiful white peonies. The bush rises 80 cm above the ground, and at the end of June it blooms with large buds of 20 cm each. The color of the flowers is white with a soft pink tint; in the central part of the edges of the petals they have a red border.

Rose Marie Lens variety is used for cutting, it looks good in bouquets

Victoria

The peony of the Soviet selection Victoria rises 1 m above the ground and bears large double flowers up to 18 cm wide. It reaches its maximum decorative value in June; the outer petals of the perennial are pure white, and the center of the bud is soft pinkish.

Peony Victoria is one of the most famous and has been grown in Russia since 1988

Koshinoyuki

The tree-like Koshinoyuki blooms after June 20 and bears large buds, first with a delicate pink tint, then pure white. It reaches 1.5 m in height, has strong stems that do not bend under the flowers, and grayish-green foliage.

White Koshinoyuki flowers look especially impressive against the background of dark leaves.

Top Brass

The Top Brass double peony grows up to 1 m above the ground and begins flowering in mid-June. It is distinguished by an unusual bud shape - the central part, or crown, consists of bright yellow and creamy white petalodes, rising strongly above the snow-white outer petals.

The diameter of the beautiful crowned flowers of Top Brass reaches 18 cm

Big Boy

The medium-sized Big Boy peony, up to 70 cm in height, is an interspecific hybrid and produces cup-shaped buds with wide, two-row white petals. In the center of the flower there are long yellow-orange stamens. The variety is very early, it enters the decorative period already in May and is one of the first to decorate plots.

Big Boy flowers are quite large in size - about 15 cm

Vorobievsky

The domestic peony variety Vorob'yevskiy grows up to 1 m and blooms from May 24 to early June. The buds of the perennial are hemispherical, pure white, located one at a time on the stem. The simple yet sophisticated white look is used in flower beds and bouquets.

White peony Vorobyovsky tolerates cold well and is resistant to fungal diseases

Yellow King

Yellow King reaches 80 cm in height and produces Japanese-shaped flowers - with a few large cup-shaped petals. The hue of the buds is first light pinkish, then pure white, with bright yellow dense staminodes located in the center. The variety blooms in mid-June.

Yellow King looks especially bright in illuminated areas

Gladys Hodson

The beautiful double peony Gladys Hodson grows up to 1 m and bears large flowers with white petals and a slight pinkish tint. Emits a floral aroma and can fall apart greatly under the weight of the buds. It blooms very late, in early July.

Gladys Hodson is often used as a cut flower - the buds reach 20 cm

Miss America

Among the best varieties of white peonies, the semi-double species Miss America occupies an important place. The perennial bush rises to 80 cm. It blooms at the very beginning of June with white, pinkish buds with golden stamens in the center.

Miss America produces huge buds up to 25 cm in diameter

Brother Chuck

The double white peony Brother Chuck rises up to 90 cm on strong stems and begins to bloom after June 15th. The buds of the variety are soft white in the outer part and light pink in the center, with yellow stamens visible in the middle. One stem can bear up to three flowers up to 17 cm wide.

Brother Chuck is a very cold-resistant variety that can winter at -43 °C

Carrara

The snow-white Carrara peony has cup-shaped buds with dense, bright yellow staminodes in the center. The bush rises 80 cm in height and enters the decorative period around June 20.

As they bloom, the white Carrara buds flatten and reveal more of the yellow core

Festiva Maxima

The famous Festiva Maxima species is an early bloomer and bears large flowers already at the end of May. The buds of the variety are double, snow-white with several bright pink petals in the core. The perennial rises 1 m above the ground, blooms very profusely and exudes a refreshing aroma.

Festiva Maxima does not bend under the weight of the inflorescences and looks very impressive in the garden

Mom's favorite

Mom's favorite peony begins to bloom after June 20 and bears medium-sized double buds of a milky white hue. The stems of the variety are strong, do not bend, reach 85 cm in height, flowering is long and abundant.

Mom's favorite looks best in sunny areas

Adorable

The weak-double variety Adorable blooms very early - at the end of May. Exudes a weak but pleasant aroma. The buds of the variety are large, with pinkish outer petals, a snow-white center and yellow stamens in the core. The height of the bush is about 80 cm.

Peony Adorable can be grown in cold regions; it can winter at - 37 ° C

Bowl of Cream

Bowl of Cream, or Bowl of Cream, bears large double buds of bright white color. Towards the end of flowering it acquires a milky tint and emits a faint aroma. It blooms in mid-June, decorates the garden for a long time and is perfectly preserved when cut. The bush rises 80 cm in height.

In 1981, the Bowl of Cream variety received a gold award from the American Peony Society.

White peonies in landscape design

Snow-white cupped and double perennials can often be found in garden plots. The photo of white peonies flowers shows that there are many options for using them in the landscape. They are usually planted:

in single and complex flower beds, red, blue, and yellow perennials go well with white peony;
Snow-white peony looks great in any flower bed
as part of a hedge;
Tall tree-like varieties of peony can form a hedge in the garden
on the sides of garden paths;
Medium-sized and tall peonies beautifully frame neat paths
along fences or against the wall of a house;
A flowerbed with white peonies near the house decorates an unoccupied space
on either side of a home's front porch or next to a garden dining area.
White peonies can serve as an accent for important areas of the garden

With the help of bright white peonies you can highlight any area in the country house or decorate an unoccupied space. Perennials look best in bright sun, but they also take light shade very well.

Attention! You should not plant the crop only in dense shade, where the plant simply cannot develop.

Features of planting and care

Beautiful white peonies do not have difficult growing requirements. To cultivate them on the site, it is enough to follow the basic rules:

It is best to plant a perennial in the fall in September; it will have time to take root safely. Choose a place for the plant that is well-lit, but sheltered from the wind and with light shade; the soil should be quite loose and not swampy.
A few weeks before planting, dig a shallow hole twice the size of the root system of the seedling and fill it halfway with a mixture of sand, humus, peat and garden soil. Superphosphate, iron sulfate and wood ash are also added to the hole.
The peony is lowered into the hole, sprinkled with soil mixture to the end and trampled around, and then watered generously and mulched with peat.

For further care, you need to water the peony only when the soil is very dry; waterlogging harms it. Fertilizers for good flowering are applied three times a season - in the spring the perennial is fed with nitrogen, and before and after flowering with phosphorus and potassium.

Advice! In the first 2 years, fertilizing can be skipped if minerals were added to the soil during planting.

With the onset of autumn in October, the stems of white peony are cut almost flush with the ground, leaving no more than 4 cm.Most varieties of the crop overwinter well without shelter, but usually the flower bed is covered with humus or peat - organic matter acts as autumn feeding and insulates the roots. In cold regions, the crop can be additionally covered with spruce branches.

Diseases and pests

In unfavorable conditions, white peony can suffer from fungi and viruses. The most common include:

rust;
Rust leaves reddish spots on the leaves and leads to drying out
gray rot;
With gray rot, peony roots begin to darken and soften, the disease spreads along the stems and buds
rattle virus;
When peony leaves rattle, they become covered with light spots and become deformed.
cucumber mosaic.
The mosaic appears as light circles on the leaves and weakening of flowering

The most dangerous pests for white peony in the garden are:

ants;
During the flowering period, ants eat petals and unopened buds
root-knot nematode;
The nematode attacks the roots of the plant and leads to the appearance of knotty growths
bronze beetle.
A beautiful and potentially useful bronzeback eats peony flowers

The fight against fungal diseases is carried out using copper sulfate and the drug Fundazol, white peony is sprayed in early spring or three more times at intervals of 14 days. You can get rid of pests using the drugs Karbofos or Aktara, although it should be noted that if a perennial is infected with a nematode, it is better to dig up and destroy it.

Important! To prevent the appearance of fungi and pests, the soil at the roots must be loosened regularly.

Conclusion

White peonies are a very beautiful decorative crop that is resistant to external conditions. There are dozens of varieties of perennial plants; they differ in the size of the bush, as well as the shade and shape of the flower.