Carnations are flower about the size of it of small peach with disturbance - border petal packed tightly together . carnation amount in every color except blue . Carnations are perennials ; imbed them once in the garden and they ’ll amount back every year with the right upkeep . If you do it the look of gillyflower but would choose other industrial plant , do n’t give up . There are many flowers that resemble carnations and will do well in your garden .

Dianthus

Dianthus , sometimes call pinks , look like miniature carnations . The flowers get to only 1 column inch across , and the plant originate only up to 18 inch . The entire industrial plant will be covered with blooms . They ’re called pinks because the edge of the petals front like they ’ve been cut with rap shear . Dianthus comes in red , pinkish , white and salmon . The petals are often tipped with a contrasting colour . Dianthus likes a well - drained cheery location and slimly alkaline dirt . The flowers have a zesty , pleasant scent .

Double Hibiscus

Most hibiscus are icing bid . They grow to 5 foot eminent and have rounded arrow - form leaves . Single hibiscus flowers are 3 to 5 inch across with five ruffled petals and a salient yellow stamen in the centre . Double hibiscus are pocket-size and the stamen is n’t visible . They look like huge gillyflower . The blossoms only last a day or two , and unlike carnations they shut down at dark . Since they do n’t last long , hibiscus flowers do n’t make good flowers for redolence .

Double Hollyhocks

Hollyhocks are a cottage garden bloom and one of the tall flowers around , up to 7 feet tall . The works has large arrow - shaped leaves . The bloom stalk has up to 50 flowers that bloom from the bottom of the stem up to the top . hollyhock will throw out side flower stubble that are n’t as tall as the halfway independent stalk . dual althea flowers are not quite as enceinte as three-fold hibiscus . Hollyhocks will last as a cut efflorescence if the stalk is seared with an open fire . The flowers are middling blow in a bowl of piss .

Grandiflora Petunias

genus Petunia come in a 10000 of shape , blossom types , colouring material and increment habit . Some varieties are edged in a contrasting color . Flower size ranges from 3/4 of an column inch to 3 column inch across . The ruffled three-fold grandiflora petunias look like carnations . Petunia have a slightly sweet-flavored honey fragrance . They prefer well - debilitate soil in a sunny location . Most petunias are hybrids . If they go to seed , their young may not face like the parent plant . Keep the plant deadheaded and it will continue blossom copiously .

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