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.

See also: Terrace garden ideas for your home

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.

Also read: Flower pot design ideas

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.

See also: All about garden roses

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.

Also read: All about kitchen gardening for beginners

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.

See also: Evergreen trees in India that you can use in your small home gardens

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 been 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 colors like bright pink, red, violet and white, making them an ideal choice to add more color 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.