11 Best Small Flowers | Tiny Flower Plants

Grow these adorable small flowers in your garden to bring a splash of Color. Apart from Color, some of these tiny flowers are also fragrant.

Small flowers look adorable and usually grow in clusters that attract pollinators. These tiny little beauties bring vibrancy and Color with them and often fragrance. Check out this list of our favorite small flowers to adorn your garden, flower bed, or container.

1. Pansy

Botanical Name: Viola × wittrockiana

Pansy blooms come in stunning combinations of blue, red, white, and yellow, having velvety textured petals. Perfect for bedding, borders, and containers, pansies love cool weather and can tolerate frost to a certain degree. Primroses, trailing lobelia, and sweet alyssum are cool-weather flowers that go well with pansies.

Pansy is also in our list of Plants for shallow pots

2. Lily of the Valley

Botanical Name: Convallaria Majalis

The sweet fragrance of tiny bell-shaped flowers of the lily of the valley can entice anyone! Blooming in the late spring, flowers are usually white but also show pink hues sometimes. It’s a low-growing and fast-spreading plant that tends to turn invasive.

3. Baby’s Breath

Botanical Name: Gypsophila spp.

Flowering from spring to summer, the tiny delicate flowers of baby’s breath come in white and pink hues. It’s popular for cut flowers, floral arrangements, and bouquets. Some cultivars have creeping habits making an excellent choice for ground cover, whereas others grow more upright.

4. Grape hyacinth

Botanical Name: Muscari

Bring drama to your backyard with the beautiful colors of Grape hyacinth. When it blooms in spring, its small bell-shaped flowers form the illusion of little beads stuck to flower stalks. Most popular cultivars have blue flowers but also bloom in pink, white, and yellow hues.

5. Fairy Foxglove

Botanical Name: Erinus alpinus

Tiny purplish-pink flowers growing atop low growing rosette of stems gives Fairy foxglove a charming look. It’s a perfect flowering plant for novice gardeners as it requires minimal care. Be it rock gardens or containers; Fairy foxglove won’t disappoint!

6. Sweet Alyssum

Botanical Names: Lobularia maritima

Sweet alyssum is a versatile flowering plant growing in rock gardens, pots, hanging baskets, and borders. Naturalized in many parts of the US, it’s self-sowing and blooms year after year in spring and fall. Clusters of tiny flowers come in white, pink, and purple colors.

7. Trailing Lobelia

Botanical Name: Lobelia erinus

Although trailing lobelia has many cultivars, the blue-blooming ones have our hearts. Plant it in hanging baskets, containers, or window boxes, and watch as it fills the space gracefully. It blooms from spring and lasts till the first frost.

8. Forget-Me-Not

Botanical Name: Myosotis

Forget-me-not care is a breeze, making it a good choice for woodland gardens and backyards. Clusters of bright blue flowers grow in clumps; apart from that, it bears white, pink, and yellow blooms.

9. Thyme

Botanical Name: Thymus vulgaris

The aromatic tiny purple blooms of thyme not only serve an ornamental purpose but are edible as well. Grow it in your herb garden, walkways, or container; it’s versatile. Some varieties also bear pink and white blooms from late spring to summer.

10. Kenilworth Ivy

Botanical Name: Cymbalaria muralis

Also known as ivy-leaved toadflax, Kenilworth bears small adorable purple flowers. Apart from the blooms, its scalloped foliage is also an interesting feature. It’s usually spotted in walls and rock crevices.

11. Periwinkle

Botanical Name: Catharanthus roseus

Periwinkles stand out both with their charming name and cheerful blooms. Flowering in beautiful shades of blue and violet, it’s resistant to invaders like deer and rabbits. Locate it at a spot with full sun to partial shade.