Winter in Bengaluru is not a harsh season. It is a gentle sigh, a slow exhale, a time when the air turns crisp but not cruel. The sky sharpens to a soft blue, the morning fog settles above the lakes, and the evenings arrive a little earlier than expected. And with this shift comes something the city does better than most metros.

A quiet bloom. Seasonal flowers appear in heaps and colours and fragrances that take over markets across the city. Marigolds, chrysanthemums, native roses, button flowers, delicate stalks of tuberose and baskets of winter greens make December and January feel like a festival in themselves.

This is the season when Bengaluru’s old flower markets wake up before dawn, and the new boutique florists bring out their most textured, fragrant and playful arrangements. Whet

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