Many-coloured flowers
Pansies, lantana, bougainvillea, zinnias and parrot tulips.
Plumeria
Fragrant tropical tree with waxy, five-petaled flowers in many colours
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Flowering tree
LantanaLantana camara
A colourful shrub with clusters of small, changing flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 9 more · Flowering shrub
Common LilacSyringa vulgaris
A spring-flowering shrub with fragrant purple or white blooms
🇷🇸 Serbia and 4 more · Garden flower
Mussaenda erythrophylla
A West African shrub with bright, colourful bracts and star-shaped flowers
🇬🇦 Gabon · Flowering shrub
Delavay's tree peonyPaeonia delavayi
A woody peony from China with flowers in red, yellow, or other shades
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
Rhododendron kaempferi
A Japanese semi-evergreen azalea with many colourful forms
🇯🇵 Japan · Garden flower
Felicia
A daisy-like African genus with purple, blue or white ray flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Shrubby CinquefoilDasiphora fruticosa
A hardy yellow-flowered shrub found in cool northern regions
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Sasanqua camelliaCamellia sasanqua
An evergreen shrub with winter flowers and fragrant petals, native to southern Japan
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Flowering shrub
Grevillea
Evergreen shrubs and trees with distinctive spider-like flowers
🇦🇺 Australia and 2 more · Wildflower
White rose of YorkRosa × alba
A cold-hardy old garden rose with white or pink many-petalled blooms
🇸🇪 Sweden and 4 more · Flowering shrub
Common pagodaMimetes cucullatus
A Cape shrub whose scarlet hooded leaves crown each flower head
Mimetes cucullatus · Flowering shrub
Moutan peonyPaeonia × suffruticosa
The woody peony of China with large, showy spring flowers
🇨🇳 China and 4 more · Flowering shrub
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Plumeria: Renesis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Moutan peony: C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Common Lilac: Nedelin, CC BY 2.5, source
- Mussaenda erythrophylla: Tatiana Gerus, CC BY 2.0, source
- Delavay's tree peony: Epibase, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rhododendron kaempferi: Qwert1234, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Felicia: Stickpen, Public domain, source
- Lantana: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Shrubby Cinquefoil: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sasanqua camellia: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Grevillea: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- White rose of York: A. Barra, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common pagoda: Dwergenpaartje, CC BY-SA 4.0, source