Flowers for festivals
Flowers tied to a festival, a holiday or a season of celebration.
Decoration
Bonsai盆栽
The Japanese art of shaping miniature trees in shallow pots
🇯🇵 Japan and 7 more · Art or design
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Onam
Kerala’s ten-day harvest festival with flower carpets, feasts and boat races
🇮🇳 India and 1 more · Custom, Aug to Sep
Decoration
Papel picado
Mexican folk art banners made by cutting designs into colored tissue paper
🇲🇽 Mexico and 1 more · Flower craft
Place
Hunter Valley Gardens
A vast themed garden and event venue in Pokolbin, New South Wales
Pokolbin, 🇦🇺 Australia · Botanical garden
Decoration
Pūjā in Buddhism𑀧𑀽𑀚𑀸
A ritual offering and devotional act in Buddhist practice
🇮🇳 India and 3 more · Offering or rite
Decoration
roof garden
A garden created on the roof of a building for plants, food, and recreation
Garden style
Decoration
Kanzashi簪
Traditional Japanese hair ornaments, often crafted as folded silk flowers
🇯🇵 Japan · Arrangement
Decoration
Floristry
The craft and trade of arranging and selling flowers
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 3 more · Arrangement
Decoration
Lei
A garland or necklace of flowers, leaves, or shells given to honor or celebrate
🇺🇸 United States and 3 more · Garland or wreath
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
Decoration
Kolamகோலம்
South Indian geometric floor art made with rice flour or powder at home entrances
🇮🇳 India and 5 more · Carpet or floor pattern
Place
Zakir Husain Rose Garden
A vast rose garden and festival site in Chandigarh, India
Chandigarh, 🇮🇳 India · Flower garden, Jan to Dec
Place
Gardens by the BayTaman di Persisiran / 滨海湾花园 / வளைகுடா தோட்டம்
Singapore’s waterfront gardens with giant Supertrees and world-class glasshouses
Downtown Core, 🇸🇬 Singapore · Flower garden
Place
Descanso Gardens
A 150-acre botanical garden in La Cañada Flintridge, California
La Cañada Flintridge, 🇺🇸 United States · Botanical garden
Shirui lilyLilium mackliniae
A rare lily found only in the hills of Manipur, India
🇮🇳 India · Wildflower
Decoration
Artificial flower
Imitation flowers made from fabric, plastic, paper, clay and other materials
🇨🇳 China and 5 more · Arrangement
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Perfume
A scented liquid made from oils, flowers, and aromatics for body and space
🇫🇷 France and 6 more · Arrangement
Decoration
Topiary
The art of shaping living shrubs and trees into geometric or fanciful forms
🇮🇹 Italy and 6 more · Arrangement
Decoration
Green wall
A wall or panel covered with living plants, indoors or outdoors
Arrangement
Decoration
Floral industry
The global trade and business of growing, selling, and arranging flowers
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 7 more · Custom
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bonsai: Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Onam: Jiteshgt, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Papel picado: Ferfive, CC BY 4.0, source
- Hunter Valley Gardens: CassieShepherd, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pūjā in Buddhism: Luca Galuzzi ( Lucag ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- roof garden: The.lemonaut.ukr, CC BY 4.0, source
- Kanzashi: Anonymous ( Japan ) Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Floristry: Joachimj, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lei: possibly Fernando Le Bleux, Public domain, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kolam: mckaysavage, CC BY 2.0, source
- Zakir Husain Rose Garden: Harvinder Chandigarh, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gardens by the Bay: Shiny Things ., CC BY 2.0, source
- Descanso Gardens: David Liu, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Shirui lily: Tabish Qureshi Tabish q, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Artificial flower: Flor4U|Wolfgang Roth|Blumenwerkstatt Roth, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Perfume: Takkk, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Topiary: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Green wall: Harry Princethorpe, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Floral industry: Satin66Flower, CC BY-SA 4.0, source