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Rainy Season Beauties: The Best Monsoon Flowers
The arrival of the monsoon pleases all and more so the monsoon Flowers which bloom beautifully adding color to the season. The weather does turn cool and the rain sprouts up more greenery and floral life.
Monsoon flowers add to the glamour of the wet season to start planting if a person is an avid gardener.
A few gorgeous Monsoon flowers in India:
1. Balsam
Balsam is gorgeous and comes in an array of pink, red, lilac, and also white colors and consists of double petals. The accentuating flower does grow on succulent stems, covered with spirally arranged leaves. Also, the flowering does start around 60 days from the sowing and continues to bloom for 15-20 days.
2. Marigold
Displaying rather a multitude of color palettes that range from, orange, and yellow, to red, the marigold flowers are no doubt the pride of Indian gardens. The flower does indeed is available in Hindu worshipping as well as rituals. It comes in two-tone with contrasting edging and does continue to flower for 3-4 months right after 2 months from sowing.
3. Cape Jasmine
The white, waxy flowers of cape jasmine can rather be single or double depending much upon the variety. The matte white shade flower that does gradually become yellow, does indeed make a great contrast with emerald green leaves. It usually flowers from mid-spring to summer, but also some cultivars do continue flowering till rainy seasons as well.
4. Hibiscus
Being native to a tropical region, Hibiscus is considered to be a funnel-shaped flower that has 5 petals. The yellow stamens do emerge from the tube thus giving a stunning visual. Moreover, the flower color may vary from white, yellow, pink, red, orange, peach, and even to purple. The blossoms do repeatedly flower from mid-summer till early monsoon.
5. Lotus
The rather stand-out lotus is terrific in attractiveness. This aquatic plant is rather accentuated with broad, green leaves that tend to float on the water’s surface. The slender airy stalk does stand upright in the water on which the lotus unfurls. The petal distribution can be single, double, or even multi-layer, with petals pinnacles in an overlapping fashion. Also, the flowering starts in June and continues till August.
6. Sunflower
The petals of the sunflower are actually sterile florets that are arranged in a rather spiral fashion. The flower color can range from yellow, red, to orange with a green circular head typically made from disc florets. The young sunflower in fact cleverly does follow the sun’s moves from east to west, but the mature sunflowers in fact permanently face towards the east rather than moving east to west.
7. Cosmos
These delicacies do resemble the daisy flowers while sitting on the thin stalks. Cosmos does feature a cup-shaped flower head, with 5-8 petals of white, pink, orange, or even purple hue. Also, the flowers are in fact surrounded with fern-like, feathery foliage, and the whimsical beauty they exude displays from spring through fall.
8. Indigo
Scarlet red, purple, or even white-hued, pea-like flowers and also hair-like thin leaves make this kind of flowering plant really exceptionally fabulous. It belongs to the tropical as well as subtropical regions and was earlier used in the preparation of dye. Also, this is one of the best beautiful rainy flowers.
9. Plumeria
The white to no doubt cream flower, with yellow tinges in the center, makes this flower very fascinating in any garden. The starry flower has of course a sweet floral fragrance that peaks during the night and early morning. Also, these sweet-scented blooms do indeed repeatedly flower during summer, monsoon, as well as fall.
10. Monsoon Cassia
Monsoon cassia is indeed the charm of the rainy season. Its blossom consists of five, yellow petals arranged in a pinwheel manner. The flower does grow in abundant clusters, looking overwhelmed by flowers with no leaves present. The flowering months of Monsoon cassia are from May till of course July.
Conclusion
Monsoon flowers are beautiful to look at and smell too.