Home Gardening

Name/Time taken for blooming from sowing	Flower Description	Light Requirement	Notes
Balsam 4 months	Flowers single or double in white, pink, purple and red.	Sunny or semi shade	Plants do better in high humidity. So if dry conditions prevail, spinkle often.
Celosia (Cockscomb) 2 1/2 -3months	Pink, orange, red, crimson, gold, velvety, plumes or crests.	Full sun	Can also be grown as winter annuals.
Gaillardia 3 1/2 -4 months	Single and double flowers in yelow, red.	Sunny	This is a slightly earlier sowing season.December to April suitable for beds. Plants continue to flower for a long time.
Sunflower	Flowers are large and yellow, single or double.	Sunny	Grow better near south facing walls. Flowers always face the sun.
Zinia	White, rust, darkbrown maroon, copper red,yellow etc. Single & double small(1 1/2") or large(6") flowers.	Sunny	Pinch off earlybeds to encourage growth. Keep removing dead flower to get better & more blooms.

Bougainvillea	Popularshurb also grown as climber. Flowers commonly deep pink, red, yellow, white; thorns arise from leaf axils.	Good sun	Prunning should be done to encourage growth of new stems. Prune the plant at the on set of summer.
Cleroon- endron Splendens	Evergreen climber, dark, glossy leaves. Tiny scarlet flowers, in clusters.	Shade or partial shade	A vigorous climber which gives better flowers if pruned every year during the monsoon. Clerodendron is useful as ascreen or wall climber.
Jasmine	A bunch of fragment white flowers which give out a lovely fragrace in the evening.	Sun or partial shade	Should be purned after flowering to check excessive growth.
Railway Creeper	Funnel shaped light purple flowers.	Full sun	Should be grow in spring or in early summer.

Gladiolous 60-120 days	Flowers are flared-tubber on tall graceful spikes. Many colours - white, pink on on white, red, violet, etc.	Sunny	Plants bulbs 3"-4" deep for early flowers and 6"-7" for delayed blooms. Space bulbs 8"-10" apart rotting of bulbs. water very sparingly till leaves appear.
Tuberose 90-100 days	Tabular, white waxy flowers on a central spike Surrounded by narrow, long leaves.	Sunny	By varying planting depthand size of bulbs you can vary the flowering time in order get blooms successively. Deeper plantingand smaller bulbs gives delayed flowers and vice versa. Manure should be added 15 days before planting bulbs. Plants bulbs to a depth of2"-3", interspace 6"-7" apart. Or plant 2 to 3 bulbs may be removed, or left in-situ waiting for the next flowernng season.