Flowers for food and drink
Eaten, brewed or used to flavour and colour food.
Begonia
A vast group of colourful, shade-loving flowering plants from warm climates
Begonia · Wildflower
Celosia
Flame-like flowers grown for food and garden colour
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 5 more · Garden flower
Decoration
roof garden
A garden created on the roof of a building for plants, food, and recreation
Garden style
Decoration
Flower box
A container for growing flowers or herbs, often set under windows or on railings
Arrangement
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
Common GorseUlex europaeus
A tough, spiny yellow-flowered shrub of Western Europe
🇳🇿 New Zealand and 6 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
KadambaNeolamarckia cadamba
A tropical tree with fragrant orange globe-shaped flowers from South and Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
Ivy-leaved geraniumPelargonium peltatum
A trailing plant with fleshy, lobed leaves and pale mauve to pink flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Giant waterlilyNymphaea gigantea
A large aquatic lily with floating leaves and day-blooming blue flowers
🇦🇺 Australia · Water flower
Blue water lilyNymphaea nouchali
A star-shaped aquatic bloom in white, blue and pink across South and Southeast Asia
🇧🇩 Bangladesh and 7 more · Water 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
- Celosia: Reaperman, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- roof garden: The.lemonaut.ukr, CC BY 4.0, source
- Flower box: Rakoon, CC0, source
- Beach naupaka: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Bengal trumpet: Don McCulley, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common Gorse: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Geiger tree: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Kadamba: This work was made by Tushar Hossain and released under the license(s), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ivy-leaved geranium: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Giant waterlily: botanygirl, CC BY 4.0, source
- Blue water lily: Nguyễn Tấn Phát, CC BY-SA 3.0, source