HomeTriangle Guides: 10 Flowering Annuals For The Prettiest Garden Ever

The prettiest flowers to grow in your garden or balcony. Want to grow your own flowers for a bright and cheerful patch of natural color? If you don't know which plants thrive in Indian weather conditions? Or which plants flower? Here's a list to get you buying the right plants for the prettiest garden ever!

African Daisy (Arctotis Grandis)

Commonly found in the gardens of North India, African daisies require porous soil, low temperature, and humidity to survive. Seeding in September month will yield flowers within 4 months.

Spider Flower/ Cleome Spinose

These plants can be grown both in winter and summer with the flowers blossoming after 3 months of seed germination. The bright pink, rose and white shades of these blooms adds a breath of fresh air to your garden.

Cornflower

Planning a mixed border in your garden? Be sure to include this one! It can grow a meter tall, flowers quickly, and has a long life. Cornflower can also be used as cut flowers for decorative purposes. Sow them in September for blooms in January!

Ceolosia Plumosa/ Cockscomb

Cockscomb is a red annual variety of flowers that can be grown during summer, winter, and rainy seasons! Cockscomb vary greatly in height and are planted in January or February for flowers in the summer.

Marigold

Marigold is a common flower in Indian households and is grown either in pots or beds. Marigold is also used as cut flowers for religious and decorative purposes.

Petunia Hybrida

Petunia is also very popular and is mostly grown in bed formation or as a herbaceous border. Petunia are also seen in window boxes or pots on the balcony. It's funnel-shaped flowers need porous and rich soil for growth.

Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis Alpestris)

Seeds for this plant are sown in September or October and they flower after 5 months of sowing. Forget me not's flourish in pots or beds.

Balsam

A very popular plant variety in India, Balsam is grown mostly in the summer season or rains. The colors of the flowers can vary from pink, rose, white, blue, and crimson to many other shades. Balsam needs rich, porous but moist soil to grow with high humidity and lots of sun.

Dianthus Barbatus/ Sweet William

Sweet William can be treated as both an annual and a perennial. Sweet William's are annuals when grown in the plains. They are great as cut flowers and are mostly grown in beds and borders. If the seeds are sown in September it will blossom from December to March.

Cosmos Bipinnatus/ Cosmea

This free-flowering annual plant is used for bedding or even in a garden with mixed borders. It can grow well in both sun and semi-shade and all kinds of soils. It is mainly known as a Winter plant with seeds sown in June/July months for the flowers in early winter.

These self-seeding annual plants have many beautiful varieties and can be used in a suitable mix around the year to keep your garden looking colorful and fresh in all seasons!