If you want to add colour, fragrance, definition and a unique character to your garden, the best way to do it, is by growing flowering plants. This guide will help you make your garden inclusive and diverse with flowers that are easy to grow and do wonders for any garden.
Impatiens
Blooming time: Spring to fall
Want to bring colour to the distant corners of your garden? Go for these shade-loving annuals. You can grow them anywhere.
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Pansy
Blooming time: Early spring
Seed them once and they would come back every season without having to re-seed. Lasting year long, these are also edible and widely used as a garnish for many delicacies.
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Petunia
Blooming time: Spring to winter
Tough and hardy, petunias go well in planters. They are a delight in any garden.
Marigold
Blooming time: Spring to fall
The most commonly used flower in India, the marigold is close to our hearts. It must find a definite place in your flower garden.
Rose
Blooming time: Spring to winter
No garden could be complete without beautiful roses. Sweet of smell, these delicate beauties are tougher than you believe them to be.
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Moss rose
Blooming time: Spring to fall
Low-growing small flowers that last all year long, moss roses have been an integral part of Indian house gardens.
Four O’clock
Blooming time: Summer
Sweet of fragrance, four O’clock blooms in the mid-to-late afternoon and closes the next morning. They last the whole year and are popular garden flowers.
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Peony
Blooming time: Late spring to early summer
A magnificent bloom with the most scrumptious flowers and lush green foliage, peonies are perennials that come back every year.
Fuchsia
Blooming time: Summer
These highly adorable annuals give you the option to have a flower garden in modern homes. They would bloom brilliantly in baskets and small flower pots.
Lantana
Blooming time: Spring through fall
A favourite of butterflies, they last the entire year. Hardy as they are, they require very little maintenance. These vibrantly coloured flowers grow as wild bushes.
Lavender
Blooming time: Summer
Add more fragrance to your garden with lavender, a highly proclaimed reliever of a vast variety of ailments with several medicinal properties.
Aster
Blooming time: Mid-summer
Lasting a long period, aster, a perennial, blooms in your garden right when others are fading away.
Black-eyed Susan
Blooming time: Late summer
A summertime bloomer with heat resistance, the black-eyed susan brings a definite cheer to your eclectic garden.
Hydrangea
Blooming time: Late summer
Widely cultivated in many parts of the world across climates, hydrangea comes in a vast variety of colours such as blue, red, pink and purple.
Ice plant
Blooming time: Summer
These perennial succulent plants bloom all summer due to their high tolerance to heat.
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Hollyhock
Blooming time: Mid-summer
A classic garden staple, because of its low maintenance, most hollyhock varieties are biennials, lasting you for two seasons. Hollyhocks are highly attractive to pollinators such as bees and hummingbirds.
Coneflower
Blooming time: Early to late summer
Apt for Indian summers, these tough perennials would be the right choice for a flower garden.
Hibiscus or Gurhal
Blooming time: Mid to late summer
Known for its medicinal properties, the Indian Gurhal or hibiscus has found a mention in Indian scriptures. A must-have plant for any Indian garden!
Thrift
Blooming time: Late spring to early summer
Also known as sea pink, thrift flowers come in many colours like bright pink, red, violet and white, making them an ideal choice to add more colour to your house garden.
Zinnia
Blooming time: Summer
Low maintenance and hardy, zinnia would bring that much-needed dash of colour to your garden.
Sweet Alyssum
Blooming time: Spring to winter
Want a really sweet-scented flower to make your garden an olfactory delight? Sweet alyssums will be the way to go.
