Flower color
Yellow flowers
224 garden plants with yellow blooms, with bloom times, hardiness zones, and sun needs. Build a yellow color scheme that lasts across the season.
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Yellow is the first color the eye finds, which is both its use and its problem. A little of it lifts a planting; a lot of it flattens everything around it, because nothing else can compete for attention. It is also the color of both ends of the year: witch hazel and the early crocus in the cold months, then rudbeckia, sunflowers and goldenrod when the rest of the border is going over. Treat the sharp lemons and the deep golds as two different colors. Lemon sits happily with blue and white, gold belongs in a hot border with orange and bronze, and side by side each makes the other look wrong. 224 plants here flower yellow.
American Gold Rush
Rudbeckia 'American Gold Rush'
Full sunZones 4–92 ftLow
Apricot Lemonade
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Apricot Lemonade'
Full sun2.3 ftLow1.3 ft wide
Arizona Apricot
Gaillardia × grandiflora 'Arizona Apricot'
Full sunZones 3–91.1 ftLow
Arnold Promise
Hamamelis × intermedia 'Arnold Promise'
Part sunZones 5–811 ftModerate
FoliageAugust Moon
Hosta 'August Moon'
Part shadeZones 3–91.6 ftModerate
Autumn Sun Coneflower
Rudbeckia nitida 'Autumn Sun'
Full sunZones 4–93.9 ftModerate
Banana Cream
Leucanthemum × superbum 'Banana Cream'
Full sunZones 5–91.5 ftModerate
Barrenwort
Epimedium
Part shadeZones 4–812 inModerate
Bartzella
Paeonia 'Bartzella'
Full sunZones 3–82.6 ftModerate
Basket of Gold
Aurinia saxatilis
Full sunZones 3–78 inLow
Beryl Bach
Rosa 'Hartesia'
Full sunZones 6–93 ftModerate
Bidens
Bidens ferulifolia
Full sunZones 8–1112 inLow
Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia
Full sunZones 3–92.6 ftLow
Butterflies Magnolia
Magnolia 'Butterflies'
Full sunZones 5–916 ftModerate
Butterfly Marguerite Daisy
Argyranthemum 'Butterfly'
Full sunZones 9–111.6 ftModerate
California Flannel Bush 'Ken Taylor'
Fremontodendron 'Ken Taylor'
Full sunZones 8–114.9 ftLow
California Flannel Bush 'Pacific Sunset'
Fremontodendron 'Pacific Sunset'
Full sunZones 8–1116 ftLow
California Flannelbush
Fremontodendron californicum
Full sunZones 8–1115 ftLow
Camelot Cream
Digitalis purpurea 'Camelot Cream'
Part shadeZones 4–83.9 ftModerate
Capistrano
Rhododendron 'Capistrano'
Part shadeZones 5–83.9 ftModerate
Carolina Moonlight
Baptisia 'Carolina Moonlight'
Full sunZones 3–93.9 ftLow
Chandelier
Lupinus 'Chandelier'
Full sunZones 4–83 ftModerate
Charlotte
Rosa 'Auspoly'
Full sunZones 5–103.6 ftModerate
Chater's Double Yellow
Alcea rosea 'Chater's Double Yellow'
Full sunZones 3–86.2 ftModerate
FoliageCitronelle
Heuchera 'Citronelle'
Full shadeZones 4–91.1 ftModerate
City of Haarlem
Hyacinthus 'City of Haarlem'
Full sunZones 4–810 inModerate
Cleopatra
Canna 'Cleopatra'
Full sunZones 7–104.6 ftHigh
Cockscomb Yellow
Celosia cristata 'Cockscomb Yellow'
Full sun1.6 ftModerate12 in wide
Coreopsis
Coreopsis
Full sunZones 4–92 ftLow
Cornelian Cherry
Cornus mas
Full sunZones 4–820 ftModerate
Coronation Gold
Achillea 'Coronation Gold'
Full sunZones 3–92.6 ftLow
Cosmic Yellow
Cosmos sulphureus 'Cosmic Yellow'
Full sun1.3 ftLow1.3 ft wide
Cream Beauty
Crocus chrysanthus 'Cream Beauty'
Full sunZones 3–84 inLow
Cream Lisianthus
Eustoma grandiflorum
Full sunZones 8–111.6 ftModerate
Cream Nasturtium
Tropaeolum majus 'Milkmaid'
Full sun12 inLow1.6 ft wide
Cream Stock
Matthiola incana
Full sunZones 2–111.6 ftModerate
Creeping Sedum
Sedum
Full sunZones 3–94 inLow
Crème Brûlée
Coreopsis verticillata 'Crème Brûlée'
Full sunZones 4–92 ftLow
Crown Imperial Lutea
Fritillaria imperialis 'Lutea'
Full sunZones 5–83 ftModerate
Daffodil
Narcissus
Full sunZones 3–81.3 ftModerate
Denver Daisy
Rudbeckia hirta 'Denver Daisy'
Full sunZones 3–72 ftLow
Dill
Anethum graveolens
Full sunZones 3–113 ftModerate
Dutch Master
Narcissus 'Dutch Master'
Full sunZones 3–81.5 ftModerate
Early Sunrise
Coreopsis grandiflora 'Early Sunrise'
Full sunZones 4–91.6 ftLow
El Desperado
Hemerocallis 'El Desperado'
Full sunZones 3–92.3 ftModerate
Eldorado
Calamagrostis × acutiflora 'Eldorado'
Full sunZones 4–94.6 ftModerate
False Sunflower
Heliopsis
Full sunZones 3–93.9 ftModerate
February Gold
Narcissus 'February Gold'
Full sunZones 3–812 inModerate
FoliageFenway Park
Parthenocissus tricuspidata 'Fenway Park'
Part sunZones 4–833 ftModerate
Fiesta
Forsythia × intermedia 'Fiesta'
Full sunZones 5–83.3 ftModerate
Flaming Parrot
Tulipa 'Flaming Parrot'
Full sunZones 3–81.8 ftModerate
Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
Campsis radicans f. flava
Full sunZones 4–926 ftModerate
Forsythia
Forsythia
Full sunZones 5–86.6 ftModerate
Freesia
Freesia
Full sunZones 9–101.3 ftModerate
French Marigold
Tagetes patula
Full sun12 inModerate12 in wide
Fresh Look Yellow
Celosia plumosa 'Fresh Look Yellow'
Full sun1.6 ftModerate12 in wide
George Davison
Crocosmia 'George Davison'
Full sunZones 5–92.3 ftModerate
Giant Sunflower
Helianthus annuus 'Mammoth Russian'
Full sunZones 2–118.2 ftModerate
FoliageGinkgo
Ginkgo biloba
Full sunZones 3–849 ftModerate
Globeflower
Trollius
Part sunZones 3–72 ftHigh
Yellow flowers by season
A plant is counted in every season it flowers in, so a long-flowering one appears in more than one. The named picks are the plants whose whole flowering sits in that season, not the ones that only pass through it.
Spring
March, April and May
96 plants
Summer
June, July and August
170 plants
Fall
September, October and November
127 plants
Winter
December, January and February
10 plants
Yellow flowers for shade
28 of these 224 plants will flower in less than a full day of sun.
The longest-blooming yellow flowers
50 of these plants hold their flowers for 5 months or more. These are the longest of them.
Yellow flowers by height
Mature height, in the three bands a border is planted in. Anything over 9.8 ft is structure rather than a border plant, and a climber is sized by whatever it is growing up, so both sit this out.
Front of the border
under 12 in
23 plants
Middle of the border
12 in to 3 ft
118 plants
Back of the border
3 ft and up
67 plants
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Design your garden
Drop plants onto a 3D plan, see how they fill in, and watch the whole garden bloom across the year.