List of Beautiful Flowers

Peony

• Peony (Paeonia) is a long-blooming, spring-flowering plant that produces large, beautiful flowers in a variety of colors. Poppy-black peony produces dark purple flowers while the pink Hawaiian peony produces hot pink to coral flowers. Other cultivars come in various shades of cream, crimson, pink, purple, garnet, white and yellow. Botanists classify peonies by both growth habit and flower type. Semi-double, herbaceous peony flowers are one of the most beautiful peony flowers. This variety has multiple rows of petals emerging from the heart the flower and opens to reveal the flower's intricate center of slender, pollen-bearing anthers. The pink Hawaiian cultivar is a semi-double peony.

Large-Flower Wakerobin

• Large-flower wakerobin (Trillium grandiflorum) is the trillium plant family's largest and most beautiful flower. It produces a single, large, brilliant white, ornate flower on a stout stem with the three, dark green, large, oval-shaped leaves. The bloom color changes to pink as the flower matures. Large-flower wakerobin is native to North America and flowers in May and June. This flower's natural habitat includes rich, mixed woods, thickets and swamps. Large-flower wakerobin grows best in moist, acidic, sandy loam soil in sun and partially shady conditions. A mulch of rotted or shredded leaves helps large-flower wakerobin look its best.

Bleeding Heart

• Bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) is a slow-blooming, flowering plant that produces small, pink and white flowers on a greenish burgundy branchlike stem. Three to 15 individual flowers flourish on a single stem. Flowers have dark pink outer petals; brilliant white, tear-shaped inner petals and a yellowish-green stamen with a purplish head protrude from the outer petals and point toward the ground. Bleeding heart's name comes from the pink outer petals' resemblance to a heart and the white interior petals' resemblance to a drop of blood. This beautiful flowering plant originates from Japan and Russia and grows in seven of the 50 states in North America.

Waling-Waling

• The rare and exotic waling-waling (Euanthe sanderiana) is among the 800 to 1,000 species of orchids that grow in the Philippines. Nicknamed "queen of Philippine orchids," waling-waling produces large, flat, 4-inch-round blossoms. Petals vary in color from brilliantly white to rose-purple with prominent, magenta- and chocolate-colored veins and spots. A greenish yellow hue lines the outer tip of the plant's bottom petals. Flowers look their most beautiful from July to October.