Turn your garden into a colorful oasis by growing these Beautiful Color Changing Flowers and enjoy an array of vibrant shades!
Splash a pop of colors into your green bed with these Beautiful Color Changing Flowers! We have listed the best ones for you.
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Beautiful Color Changing Flowers
1. Hydrangea
Botanical Name: Hydrangea macrophylla
Hydrangeas change colors depending on the acidic content of the soil. The star-shaped flower clusters take a blue hue in an acidic medium i.e 5.0 to 5.5 pH and turn pink in alkaline soil with a pH range of 6.5 to 7.
Learn the trick of changing Hydrangea’s color here
2. Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Botanical Name: Brunfelsia latifolia
These flowers bloom violet on the first day (yesterday) take a softer hue and turn lavender (today), which further gets bleached into white on the third day (tomorrow).
3. Confederate Rose
Botanical Name: Hibiscus mutabilis
The papery blooms open white in the morning, turn pink by mid-day, and deepen to bold red by the end of the day. The color transition indicates the aging of the flowers.
Have a look at how to make a small rose garden here
4. Lantana
Botanical Name: Lantana camara
The anthocyanin pigments in lantana change its red flowers with yellow centers into intense red florals with orange centers upon pollination.
Check out our article on growing Lantana here
5. Lungworts
Botanical Name: Pulmonaria spec.
The plant produces droopy tubular flowers that last for 6-8 days and change their colors from red to blue midway. The hue alteration takes place due to the aging of the blooms.
6. Larkspur
Botanical Name: Delphinium
The lovely flower spikes display blue florets in an acidic medium, whereas an increase in the pH fades them to pale pink or white.
7. Four O’Clocks
Botanical Name: Mirabilis jalapa
The color-changing phenomenon in Four O’ Clocks is subject to the plant’s maturity due to which the yellow flowers change to dark pink, while the white blooms take a purple hue.
8. Butterfly Pea
Botanical Name: Clitoria ternatea
Though, these flowers have a blue or white hue, you can change their color by changing the pH of the growing medium. If you want to change it to purple, adding a bit of lime juice to the soil will do the trick.
9. Morning Glory
Botanical Name: Ipomoea
Morning glory is a master when it comes to changing colors. You can see the change in hue from blue to pink or slightly towards a red shade in the course of a day. Experiment with the soil pH for a more dramatic color shift!
Have a look at the best types of Morning Glory flowers here
Bonus!
10. Poinsettias
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Though not a flower, you can change the color of its bracts by exposing it to darkness for 10-12 hours a day for a period of 1-2 weeks. To know how to do it in detail, read our article on how to make Poinsettias red here.
