Navratri is a festival famous for dressing us all up in color-coordinated outfits for 9 days straight. These wonderful vibrancy of these colors make the festival a much-awaited one and we often also look for ways to incorporate the 9 colors in our homes. 

If you're anything like us, you will be looking for 9 flowering plants to bring home to match these colors this Navratri. So, here are a few types of flowers to use this festive season!

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• What is Navratri?

Before talking about the different types of flowers you can bring home for Navratri, let's first understand exactly what the festival is about.  

This nine-day long festival is full of fun and fervor. All the carousel is incomplete without the nine colors that are dedicated to Goddess Durga's nine forms Shailputri, Brahmacharini, Skanda Mata, Chandraghanta, Kushmanda, Katyayani, Maha Gauri, Kaalratri, and Siddhidatri.

In lieu with this culture of celebrating nine forms with nine colors, devotees all around the country adorn the specific colored outfits on the specific day of Navratri for all nine days as announced for that particular year. The crowd turns monochromatic, and the unity is seen on the streets, local trains, buses, and offices.
Why confine this trend to clothes only? Let's take it even further, and paint the garden with nine flowers of 9 different colors, and offer them to Goddess Durga on the respective days.

• Celebrate with These 9 Flowers for Navratri

Here are 9 flowering blooms that are perfect for the 9 days of Navratri:

Day 1. Yellow Flower Plant

✻ Flower name: Allamanda

Allamanda is loved for its bright green, attractive foliage and shiny yellow trumpet shaped flowers, that are produced in profusion over a long period during summer and the rains. The plant is of a semi-climbing and semi shrub nature. Usually, it is planted near arches, pergolas or pillars. 

Day 2. Green Color Flowers

✻ Flower name: Hari Champa (Artabotrys)

A large woody climber or half scandent shrub. Hari chapa is probably the most attractive green colored flowers. The flowers appear in clusters and exude a strong aroma. The plant flowers almost throughout the year but more during the summer and the rains.

Day 3: Grey Flowers

✻ Plant name: Sage

There are no gray colored flowers to offer. However, there are many plants that produce grayish-green leaves. Sage is one such kitchen herb that produces gray foliage. It is a beautiful aromatic plant that can be grown in pots.

Day 4: Flowers That are Orange

✻ Flower name: The Cosmos

The Cosmos is a well known flowering plant. It is commonly grown in annual flower beds. The Cosmos grows in a variety of colors, but the orange variety is common. In India, you can find orange cosmos flowers growing along the highways like a wild plant in late monsoon.

Day 5: White Flowers

Flower name: Mogra (Jasminum sambac)

Mogra is one the most commonly grown plants in India. It bears single or double fragrant flowers in the summer and flushes throughout the rain. It can be trained as a semi climber.

Day 6: Red Colored Plants

Flower name: Rose

A well maintained rose plant can give you flowers throughout the year. There has to be a plant of red rose in every home garden either grown in a pot or on the ground. 

Day 7: Blue Flower Species

Flower name: Krishna Kamal (Passiflora)

It is commonly known as the passion flower. An evergreen climber favoured for its green, soft sweet scented flowers. Flowers are unusually and delicately beautiful. The numerous colorful filaments over the petals like rays and on the top sitting majestically are five anthers.

Day 8: Stunning Pink Flowers

Flower name: Lotus

Lotus is available in plenty at this time of the year. It is most valued and sacred flower in India. Lotus is associated with goddess Lakshmi. You can grow lotus in small outdoor freshwater ponds along with waterlilies and other aquatic plants.

Day 9:  Purple Blooms