Top 10 Winter Flowers For Your Garden:  Winter is the perfect time to add fragrance and beauty to your garden with blooming flowers. These flowers can blossom during the cold months even when all plant growth usually comes to a standstill, filling your garden with colours and scents. From among the very bright and cheerful Marigold, Jasmine and Bougainvillea, winter flowers refresh the atmosphere. You can use them ornamental or for any healing purpose as well. 

List Of 10 Best Winter Flowers To Grow In Your Garden

Here are the top 10 winter flowers that will fill your garden with fragrance and beauty during this season.

1. Marigold (Genda)

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Marigolds are winter-prone flowers that are pretty bright and cheerful in yellow, orange and brown colours.  Marigold is one of the garden plants that are widely used for pest control due to its strong smell, which keeps insects away. They are also used for making traditional garlands and decorations in varied cultures.

6. Winter Jasmine (Chameli)

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Winter jasmine, in Hindi, called Chameli is a flower that thrives in the cold and adds some brightness to your garden. The flower is used a lot for perfumes because of its sweet fragrance. In some cultures, it is also used as tea with calming properties.

7. Arabian Jasmine (Belli)

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Arabian jasmine is a tiny white flower, known for its very song fragrance. Arabian Jasmine is used in the form of concentrated oil in perfumery and is also used in traditional medicine to eliminate stress. In other places, it is used to make aromatic teas. 

8. Night Jasmine (Parijaat or Harsringaar)

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Night jasmine, also known as queen of the night, is a plant that blooms at night. It emanates a very strong sweet scent. This can be used as a fragrance in gardens, while in some traditional medicines, it is believed to treat insomnia.

5. Chrysanthemums (Guldaudi)

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Chrysanthemums come in a variety of colours and would be good choices for winter gardens. They are popularly used in bouquets and flower arrangements. They are known for their health benefits as well, and the flowers are mostly brewed into tea for its calming effects.

6. Yellow Oleander (Kaner)

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Yellow oleander has the distinct characteristics of being a hardy plant with exquisite flowers, which withstands relatively cold climates. The flowers release some milky texture that is poisonous but it is valuable in ornamental gardening for their input in beautifying. It has some medicinal value but only under professional supervision owing to its poisonous nature.

7. Bougainvillea (Kajag Ka Phool) 

Bougenvillea 10 best winter flowers to grow in your garden

Bougainvillea is more of a winter plant, providing a colourful touch in any garden. This plant is also famous as a landscape plant because it produces stunning flowers. Some cultures use the plant for medicinal preparations to treat fever as well.

8. White and Red Roses 

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Roses are the typical bloomers of winter. While generally known for their beauty and as bouquet ingredients, roses are also extensively used for other medicinal purposes. Rose petals, for instance, are in quite a few beauty products and are also made into their very own form of rose water for skin soothing and refreshing.

9. Camelias

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Camellias are beautiful evergreen shrubs that bloom in winter and are just one of the several species that are mostly used because of their elegant flowers in gardens. Camellia is also a well-known oil in skincare for moisturising and anti-aging purposes.

10. Alyssum

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Alyssum is a small and sweet-scented flower that bedecks itself with lovely blooms in cooler parts of the year. It is used in gardens as a sweet-smelling colour ground cover but is also often used by pollinators, to give local ecosystems more of that beautiful atmosphere in which their inhabitants thrive.

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