Garden flowers
Annuals and perennials grown in beds, borders and pots.
PomegranatePunica granatum
A shrub with bright red flowers and a fruit full of edible seeds
🇮🇷 Iran and 9 more · Flowering shrub
Rhododendron
A vast group of shrubs and trees with showy blooms in many colours
🇳🇵 Nepal and 4 more · Wildflower
PoinsettiaEuphorbia pulcherrima
The red-bracted shrub of Christmas displays, native to Mexico and Central America
🇲🇽 Mexico and 8 more · Wildflower
Crocus
Small corm-grown flowers in white, yellow, orange or purple
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Wildflower
Begonia
A vast group of colourful, shade-loving flowering plants from warm climates
Begonia · Wildflower
SnowdropGalanthus
White bell-shaped flowers that bloom at the end of winter
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Wildflower
Camellia
Evergreen shrubs and trees with showy blooms, best known for tea and garden flowers
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Garden flower
LantanaLantana camara
A colourful shrub with clusters of small, changing flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 9 more · Flowering shrub
HelleboreHelleborus
A group of perennial flowers that bloom in late winter and early spring
Helleborus · Garden flower
Crocus alatavicus
A white-flowered crocus from the mountains of Central Asia and Xinjiang
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan and 3 more · Wildflower
Hepatica
A woodland perennial with three-lobed leaves and early spring flowers
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Pygmy daffodilNarcissus asturiensis
A tiny yellow daffodil from the mountains of Portugal and Spain
🇪🇸 Spain and 1 more · Wildflower
Protea neriifolia
A South African shrub with cone-shaped flower heads and hairy-tipped bracts
🇿🇦 South Africa and 3 more · Wildflower
MagaThespesia grandiflora
Puerto Rico’s national flower, a red or pink five-petalled tree bloom
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico and 2 more · Flowering tree
Silver sennaSenna artemisioides
A yellow-flowered shrub native to dry regions of Australia
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Wildflower
Bot River proteaProtea compacta
Pink, bowl-shaped protea from the Cape’s coastal mountains
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Paphiopedilum delenatii
A fragrant slipper orchid from the shady forests of southeastern Vietnam
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Wildflower
Camellia amplexicaulisHải đường
A pink-flowered camellia tree once found in Vietnam’s forests
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Flowering tree
Rhynchostylis giganteaকপৌফুল
A fragrant orchid with dense, foxtail-like flower spikes from Southeast Asia
🇵🇭 Philippines and 7 more · Wildflower
Formosa lilyLilium formosanum
A tall, white, fragrant lily native to Taiwan with trumpet-shaped blooms
🇹🇼 Taiwan and 3 more · Wildflower
Darwin’s orchidAngraecum sesquipedale
The Madagascan orchid with a long nectar spur and a famous moth pollinator
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Wildflower
Cyclamen cyprium
A tuberous wildflower with heart-shaped leaves, native to the mountains of Cyprus
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Wildflower
Paphiopedilum insigne
A rare slipper orchid from the Khasi hills with helmet-shaped yellow flowers
🇮🇳 India and 2 more · Wildflower
Orange jasmineMurraya paniculata
A fragrant shrub or small tree with white flowers and orange-red berries
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Beach naupakaScaevola taccada
A salt-tolerant shrub with fan-shaped white flowers on tropical beaches
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Bengal trumpetThunbergia grandiflora
A climbing vine with large blue-violet trumpet flowers from Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Climber
Arabian jasmineJasminum sambac
A small white jasmine with a strong, sweet scent, treasured in Asia for garlands and ceremonies
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Iris reticulata
A small spring iris with blue or yellow flowers and a netted bulb
🇮🇷 Iran and 2 more · Wildflower
Flamingo FlowerAnthurium andraeanum
A tropical plant with heart-shaped leaves and vivid red or pink spathes
🇨🇴 Colombia and 2 more · Garden flower
Crown of thornsEuphorbia milii
A spiny flowering shrub with red, pink, or white bracts, native to Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 5 more · Wildflower
African violetSaintpaulia
A small, velvety-leaved house plant with violet, blue or white flowers from East Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower
Pineapple sageSalvia elegans
A Mexican shrub with pineapple-scented leaves and red tubular flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico · Wildflower
Ixora
Tropical evergreen shrubs with clusters of small, bright flowers
🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Garden flower
Calla lilyZantedeschia
Showy funnel-shaped flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide as ornamentals
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Desert roseAdenium obesum
A succulent shrub with bright pink to red flowers and a swollen base
🇲🇷 Mauritania and 7 more · Wildflower
Mexican flamevinePseudogynoxys chenopodioides
A climbing vine with bright orange daisy-like flowers from Central and South America
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Climber
Foxtail orchidRhynchostylis retusa
A long, hanging orchid with many pink-spotted white blooms
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Wildflower
Noble dendrobiumDendrobium nobile
A fragrant orchid with waxy blooms from the Himalayas and southern China
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Orchid
Schlumbergera
A forest cactus with jointed stems and bright flowers, grown as a holiday houseplant
🇧🇷 Brazil · Wildflower
Christmas roseHelleborus niger
A winter-blooming evergreen with white flowers, known as the Christmas rose
🇩🇪 Germany and 5 more · Wildflower
WintersweetChimonanthus praecox
A winter-blooming shrub with fragrant yellow flowers from China
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Flowering shrub
Daphne odora
Evergreen shrub with highly scented pink flowers from China
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Flowering shrub
Common GorseUlex europaeus
A tough, spiny yellow-flowered shrub of Western Europe
🇳🇿 New Zealand and 6 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
Winter jasmineJasminum nudiflorum
A yellow-flowered shrub that blooms in winter and early spring
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Flowering shrub
Geiger treeCordia sebestena
A tropical tree with bright orange-red flowers and rough, dark green leaves
🇨🇺 Cuba and 3 more · Flowering tree
Hong Kong orchid treeBauhinia × blakeana
A purple-flowered tree, emblem of Hong Kong, grown for its showy blooms
🇭🇰 Hong Kong and 1 more · Flowering tree
Paperwhite narcissusNarcissus papyraceus
A white, fragrant daffodil from the Mediterranean grown indoors for winter bloom
🇬🇷 Greece and 3 more · Bulb flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Begonia: Juni, CC BY 2.0, source
- Rhododendron: Eiffel, Public domain, source
- Camellia: junichiro aoyama, CC BY 2.0, source
- Hellebore: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocus alatavicus: C T Johansson, CC BY 3.0, source
- Hepatica: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pygmy daffodil: Jonathan Groß, CC BY 3.0, source
- Protea neriifolia: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5, source
- Maga: Jose Oquendo, CC BY 2.0, source
- Silver senna: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5, source
- Snowdrop: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pomegranate: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Poinsettia: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bot River protea: Andrew Massyn, Public domain, source
- Paphiopedilum delenatii: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Camellia amplexicaulis: Hungda, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rhynchostylis gigantea: Lars.Kurth, Public domain, source
- Formosa lily: Sphl, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Darwin’s orchid: No machine-readable author provided. Jeffdelonge assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cyclamen cyprium: Mark Griffiths, GFDL, source
- Paphiopedilum insigne: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Orange jasmine: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Beach naupaka: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Crocus: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bengal trumpet: Don McCulley, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Iris reticulata: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lantana: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Flamingo Flower: Hatem Moushir, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crown of thorns: Ezra Katz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- African violet: Kor!An (Корзун Андрей), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pineapple sage: Eric Hunt, CC BY 2.5, source
- Ixora: Wilfredor, CC0, source
- Calla lily: Octagon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Desert rose: ZSM, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mexican flamevine: Yucalyptus, CC0, source
- Foxtail orchid: Andri Suprihardi, CC BY 2.0, source
- Noble dendrobium: Maja Dumat, CC BY 2.0, source
- Schlumbergera: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Christmas rose: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wintersweet: Luigi Chiesa, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Daphne odora: Miya, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common Gorse: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Sasanqua camellia: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Winter jasmine: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Geiger tree: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Hong Kong orchid tree: Ianare, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Paperwhite narcissus: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 3.0, source