Flowering flowers

The peony is often named the king of garden, because it can become extremely easy the center of attention on any garden, due to its intense coloring and its particular format.

The peony flower from 15 April, until 1 May, being one of the most beautiful garden flower. Most indicated period to plant peony is the end of September- begin of October. The peony stern is almost woody.
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Gerbera is a genus of ornamental flower from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). Gerbera was named in honor of the naturalist Traugott Gerber.

Gerbera species bear a large capitulum with striking, two-lipped ray florets in yellow, orange, pink,red or white colors. The capitulum, which has the appearance of a single flower, is actually composed of hundreds of individual flowers. The morphology of the flowers varies depending on their position in the capitulum.

It has around 30 species in the wild, extending to tropical Asia, Madagascar,Africa, and America. The first scientific description of a Gerbera was made by J.D. Hooker in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine in 1889 when he described Gerbera jamesonii, a South African species also known as Transvaal daisy or Barberton Daisy.
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