While all flowers are beautiful, some flowers are unique and eye-catching. Flower bulbs that are intricate and eye-catching give the gardener something to look forward to when they start flowers with their unique shapes and foliage.

These blooms are unique, vibrant, and striking, making a statement in their flowering season. Their rare petal shapes are mostly what gardeners look forward to experiencing.

Here are some of the most unique flowers to grow in the garden.

Ghost Orchid

With their bare roots and attachment to trees, these endangered blooms are quite interesting to cultivate in your garden. Provide them with the right amount of partial shade and watch it produce dramatic white flowers with a light apple-like fragrance.

A ghost orchid blooming on tree branch

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Crown Imperial

The crown imperial is the perfect spring bulb plant to add to your garden flower collection. They are beautifully unique with bell-shaped blooms that form a crown on top of the plant. They get the name due to how the petals grow when in bloom. When blooming in spring they produce a wide variety of colours from, yellow to red and orange.

Crown imperial plants

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Bird of Paradise

The flowers of the bird of paradise are beautifully coloured, and adorned with bright orange hues, but their main attraction is their unique shape. Indigenous to the region, these blooms resemble the birds they are named. In the country, these distinctive plants thrive in the tropical humid jungles of the KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga provinces.

Strelitzia a.k.a. Bird of Paradise at the Stellenbosch Botanical Garden

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Corpse Flower

Most of the flower bulbs in this list are unique in their petal shape. The corpse flower has a reputation for being one of the stinkiest plants in your garden. The petals are unique yes, but their strong scent can attract pollinators which in turn is beneficial for most gardens. Give your flower the right growing conditions, with rich organic soil and see it flourish in shape and its foul smell.

Titan Arum in flower, one of the worlds larges flowers. an incredibly foul smell of rotten flesh when in bloom.

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Allium flowers

You cannot ignore the towering allium perennial flower. The allium has a striking, fascinating shape that produces massive flower heads. These flower heads have tiny, star-shaped blooms that are pinkish-purple in colour. Each bloom usually emerges from the centre at a different length, creating a spike-like shape of the flower.

Allium Christophii Flowers

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Many of these unique flowers are rare, and their growing requirements may be specific and may take time to reveal their beauty.

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