Resource Book on Horticulture Nursery Management

Sr.
No
Common
Name
Botanical
Name
Family
Flower
Color
Season Remarks
um coronarium yellow
5 Cosmos Cosmos Compositae White, All year Bedding
bipinnatus
pink,
yellow
round purpose
6 Cock‟s comb Celosia Amaranthacea Yellow, All year Beds and
argentea
orange,
red
round border
7 Dahlia Dahlia Compositae White, All year Suitable pots,
variabilis
pink, round beds, rockery
yellow,
orange
and cut flower
8 Carnation Dianthus Caryophyallaceae White, All year Cut flowers,
caryophyllus
pink, round beds and
yellow,
orange,
purple
borders
9 Petunia Petunia Solanaceae White, Winter Pots, beds and
hybrida
pink,
yellow,
blue
hanging baskets
10 Phlox Phlox Polemoniaceae White, Winter Beds, borders
drummondii
pink,
yellow,
blue,
cream
and window
boxes
11 African Tagetes Compositae Yellow, All year Cut flowers,
marigold erecta
orange,
blue,
white
round beds and
borders
12 French Tagetes Compositae Yellow, All year Bedding and
marigold patula
orange,
red
round pot culture
13 Mexican Tithonia Compositae Orange All year Bedding, pot
sunflower rotundifolia
round culture and a
good cut flower
14 Gaillardia Gaillardia Compositae Yellow, All year Bedding, pot
pulchella
orange round culture and a
good cut flower
15 Bachelor‟s Gomphrena Amaranthaceae White, Summer Screening
buttons globosa
pink, and purpose as a
purple rainy background
border
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