Winter Flowers for Indian Gardens

06 Nov,2023

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The low-growing plants branch freely with usually white flowers which are honey-scented. The compact plant looks like a carpet of flowers.

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Alyssum

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Antirrhinum (Snapdragon)

Branching annual with numerous flowering spikes, mostly of crimson or white color. Many other colorful varieties of Snapdragon are used for bedding and pot culture.

China Aster is an excellent cut flower. The flower heads come in many different sizes, types & colors.

Aster

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The flowers vary from straw color to deep orange. This single or double flowering plant is useful for bedding, potting & for window boxes.

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Calendula (Pot Marigold)

A hardy annual with slender branches & attractive long spikes of flowers. It can be grown as a pot plant.

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Clarkia

Double or single fragrant, colorful flowers are born at the top of the branches in rounded clusters. The plant is suitable for beds, borders, rock gardens, or window boxes.

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Dianthus (Sweet William)

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Hollyhock

This is a tall majestic annual. The large flowers are born in the axis of leaves all along the length of the stem. Hollyhocks can be used as a background plant, screen, open space shrubbery or annual border.

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Larkspur

It is a very popular blue/mauve-purple/pink cut flower. The plant is grown as a background or in front of a tall hedge or border & in pots.

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Pansy

The beautiful butterfly-like flowers are available in almost all shades of colors & their combinations & blotched, variegated, marked, stripped in contrasting colors. These low growing plants thrive well under the shade of other tall plants.

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Petunia

The petunias are the most popular, loveliest & valuable race of garden plants. The flowers are trumpet-shaped & may be small or large. Petunias are classified into many different types of flowers. Buy flowering plant seeds online in India.