Hollyhocks are almost as easy to grow as sunflowers and would probably be grown as often if gardeners were aware of their good nature. Alcea ficifolia ‘Happy Lights’ is a beautiful strain, reliably perennial they produce many upright stems, resulting in a bushy form.
‘Mariska’ is a little known compact variety of Dill often referred to as ‘Florist’s Dill’. With starry bright yellow flower heads and abundant foliage it is an excellent variety for use as a cut flower, yet is still a great variety for the kitchen.
Asphodeline lutea is an easy to grow perennial that has great architectural form. The overall impression is distinctly upright, so it is good for adding vertical interest to the garden. In early summer leafy stems arise that bear dense, unbranched cylindrical spikes of gorgeous yellow, star-shaped flowers.
Introduced for the 2016 season, Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Xanthos’ is causing rather a stir in horticultural circles. Unique soft-yellow blooms are produced in profusion on compact dwarf plants.
Echinacea paradoxa is a true paradox – a rare and highly unusual yellow variety of the much loved “Purple Coneflower”. With large, yellow ray flowers and the classical raised cone, the blooms are slightly fragrant and make excellent cut flowers. Echinacea paradoxa is a beautiful, elegant and easy plant to grow.
Whether your interest lies in medicinal herbs or simply its decorative qualities, growing Feverfew can be a welcome addition to any garden or allotment. Feverfew is a good companion plant and a natural insect repellent. Ideal for planting around outdoor seating areas and pathways
Great big fluffy golden heads the size of a dinner plate. This whopper of a sunflower has the same stunning densely packed yellow petals as the beloved dwarf ‘Teddy Bear’ sunflower but on a far larger scale. They make excellent cut flowers, long lasting and are very impressive in a vase.
Perennial sunflowers typically don’t grow quite as tall as their annual friends, however Helianthus maximiliani is a wonderful exception. They grow slowly until late summer when the flowers bolt and head for the sky!
Most gardeners are familiar with the annual sunflower, however, it is the perennial varieties that coexist most happily with other garden plants. Helianthus mollis is a lovely perennial with butter-yellow flowers. It grows 120cm tall and requires little more attention than an annual cutting to the ground.
Hosta are grown predominantly for their outstanding foliage, from leaves as small as a teaspoon up to those larger than a dinner plate, colours range from deep blues to silvers, darkest shiny greens to bright yellows, from a single solid hue to the myriad of variegations the choice is almost overwhelming.
The more I see of this rather attractive little plant, the more I grow to appreciate it. Now I seem to spot it all over the place, in meadows, woodland, road verges and gardens. The bright yellow fragrant flowers can be seen in blossom from the end of April through until mid September.
Each small flower of Band of Nobles ‘Chandelier’ is a glorious shade of golden yellow, and the standard (the upper petal) is often a shade or two lighter. They have been bred for a long flowering period and give unbeatable garden performance.
The Meconopsis genus contains some of the most exquisitely beautiful of all flowering plants. M. cambrica is the easiest to grow, and is reliably perennial. The delicate cup-shaped, golden-yellow flowers are borne in abundance from late spring to early autumn.
A justifiably popular plant. Phlomis russeliana blooms with dramatic whorls of hooded, soft yellow flowers on tall, erect stems. Each plant can contain as many as fifty individual blooms creating a magnificent candelabra effect.
An absolute gift to flower arrangers, this is a noble and ornamental plant for the back of any border making nice clumps of foliage. It is, of course, the flowers that are remarkable: three or four inches across, “green” is one’s immediate impression on seeing them.
Sedum Ruben’s Lizard is a low-growing sedum that has tight, rosy-green cushion of needles with reddish tips. Throughout the summer the plant is covered with many tiny, star-shaped white flowers. Drought and heat tolerant or low maintenance, whatever you want to call it, ‘Lizard’ takes a lot of abuse.
Delicate in appearance and yet very cold hardy, Sedum acre is beautiful from the first stirrings of early spring to the twilight of autumn. Hardy and very easy to grow. Started early it will form a nice dense ground cover the very first season. If the weather is favourable it will flower within six months.
If you’re looking for a beautiful plant that thrives with virtual neglect, Sedum reflexum just might fit the bill. The small bushes spread over the ground and the foliage resembles mini spruce branches. They are at their loveliest spilling over edges of walls and rocks to create the illusion of a living waterfall.
Sedum spurium ‘Voodoo’ is a stunning little perennial groundcover for hot, sunny locations. The intense dark mahogany foliage that provides a stunning contrast to the almost neon, luminous rosy-red flowers which appear June through August.
Solidago canadensis ‘Golden Baby’ is an easy to grow hardy perennial that bears flat-topped clusters of golden-yellow plumes. Growing to around 60cm tall they are perfect for borders or containers and provide end-of-season colour. Given an early sowing they will bloom in their first year.
Trollius europaeus is a beautiful native wild flower of Europe and Western Asia. Found in damp ground in shady areas, it is a most attractive plant with dark green, deeply cut leaves and bears flowers, best described as egg-yolk yellow in colour.
Verbascums are statuesque in both foliage and flower. This elegant species, native to the Olympus mountains is arguably the finest of the genus. Tall flower spikes rise from the centre of the foliage, each are weighted heavily with bright, golden-yellow blooms giving the effect of an enormous candelabra.
Amaranthus caudatus viridis is the green form of the popular drooping amaranthus. The lime green flowers, which slowly fade to cream as they age, form dramatic tassel-like panicles which can grow to 60cm long and seem to drip from the branches in profusion throughout summer and early autumn.
Blending perfectly into the late summer and autumn landscape, the large plumes atop Amaranthus cruentus ‘Autumn’s Touch’ combine soft pistachio-green and bronze tones to create restful, airy beauty in the sunny annual bed. They make exciting vase material that hold their colour longer than other amaranths and delight the songbirds who flock to feast on their seeds throughout autumn.
Amaranthus cruentus ‘Bronze’ is a tall, upright amaranth with fresh green leaves topped by dense bronze to chestnut plumes. Very autumnal, it’s a beauty for texture in borders and especially for cutting, where the plumes add instant drama to arrangements.
In horticulture Cota tinctoria is still widely referred to by its synonym Anthemis tinctoria. This beautiful aromatic, hardy perennial that is fast to flower and often used as a biennial produces masses of golden yellow daisies from June through to September. Historically used for natural dyeing, this is an ideal plant for naturalised and pollinator friendly plantings. Organic Seed. In addition to having one of the most unusual names, Antirrhinum braun-blanquetii, is also one of the few hardy perennial species of snapdragon. Named for Josias Braun-Blanquet an influential 20th century Swiss botanist it bloom the first year from seed producing numerous spikes from which delicate yellow, large snapdragon blooms appear.
Perfect for use in the garden or as a cut flower, Antirrhinum ‘F1 DoubleShot’ have impressive strong stems that produce flowers all season long, even in lower light conditions and survive even strong winds. Stunning open-faced double flowers in a beautiful sunshine yellow.
Antirrhinum ‘Madame Butterfly Yellow’ is a wonderful tall variety in a perfect primrose-yellow shade. Strong growing and vigorous, they bear lusty stems closely set with large, fully double blooms. Perfect as a cut flower, they look wonderful just as they are, as well as giving that all important ‘swoosh’ to arrangements.
Developed for the florist trade and recently introduced, ‘Green Gold’ produces wonderfully upright plants. Its flowers are produced on long, sturdy stems that have an exceptionally long vase life, lasting up to 10 days in a vase.
Calendula officinalis ‘Citrus Mixed’ is a highly attractive hardy annual variety producing a bright mixture of apricot, orange, lemon and cream blooms from May to September. Among the most popular of hardy annuals, they are very easy to grow, and thrive in the cooler weather of spring and autumn.
A unique new colour in Calendula, ‘Double Lemon’ is an award winning variety that produces large double, pale lemon blooms, each with a deep yellow heart. Compact, bushy and free flowering. it is an excellent variety for borders and containers.
Considered to be the crème de la crème of cut asters, Chrysantella Limoncello provides a beautiful soft yellow blooms to this popular series. Long-lasting, weather-resistant blooms that don’t drop their petals, they are perfect for commercial cultivation and for use as a cut flower.
Dazzling gold stripes on mahogany-brown petals mark each bloom as unique on this very free-flowering, semi-double Coreopsis. Irresistible to butterflies but left alone by deer and untroubled by heat, humidity, and drought, this carefree beauty self-sows freely, going from seed to bloom in just 12 weeks.
Hardy, tough and very easy to grow, Dianthus Chabaud were developed for florists for use as a cut flower and will provide a continuous harvest of blooms for cutting. ‘Marie Chabaud’ provides armfuls of delicate, pale lemon yellow, frilly double blooms.
One of the most notable features of the ‘Sugar Rush’ series is its unique dual-season flowering. Unlike traditional wallflowers that primarily bloom in spring, ‘Sugar Rush’ flowers in both autumn and spring. ‘Yellow’ produces upright clusters of bright, golden-yellow blooms that fill the air with delicious scent.
Evening Primrose is a classic plant, with its beautiful yellow flowers is a feast for the eyes as well as the belly. The whole plant is edible: the leaves can be cooked as greens, and the nutty-flavoured roots can be boiled and eaten like parsnips. The flowers make a lovely salad garnish.Dwarf sunflowers for small gardens and containers are always in demand and ‘Lemon Cutie’ looks to have everything we need in a dwarf sunflower. Not only is it dwarf with multiple branches, but you will never have seen such a stunning and unusual semi-double, lemon coloured Sunflower.
Developed for the cut flower industry, the ‘Sunrich’ series has been the market leader for the last fifteen years. Vibrant lemon yellow petals with creamy lemon tips surround a dark center disk, It is ‘day length neutral’ so will provide consistent flowers, just two months from planting, irrespective of the amount of daylight hours that it receives.
Giant Sunflower ‘Mongolian Giant’ is a true giant reaching up to 420cm (14ft) tall with one of the largest flowering sunflower seed heads available, up to 45cm (18in) across. One of the largest-seeded sunflower varieties available to gardeners, the plants are ideal to grow to provide food for birds to eat over-winter.
‘ProCut Gold Lite’ produces perfectly shaped blooms with overlapping, rounded glowing petals and a matching golden centre. Compared to the standard ProCut series it is slightly taller, slightly later to bloom and has resistance to downy mildew.
Looking a little like a solar eclipse, Helianthus ‘Ring of Fire’ is a dark centred sunflower that blooms with glowing red petals that gradually flare outwards to golden-yellow tips. Pollenless with a branching habit, it is considered one of the best varieties for use as a cut flower.
With most sunflowers, the beauty is in the flower petals, but the multi-layered, green outer calyxes of Helianthus ‘Sunfill Green’ create the show. This fast growing annual source of cut fillers for bouquets produce geometric flower heads for use as bouquet greenery. Sow successionally, mid spring right through to mid summer.
Sunflower ‘Valentine’ is a fantastic mid-size variety with beautiful lemon-yellow flower heads with dark centres. These vigorous upright plants are multi-branching giving a very bushy appearance, producing numerous gorgeous blooms which makes excellent cut flowers.
Helianthus ‘Italian Green Heart’ produces creamy white flowers with contrasting green centres. A branching variety, the flowers are perfect for fresh, cut flower arrangements – especially if gathered while still in bud.
Known as an ‘everlasting’ because the flowers will last indefinitely when dried, Helichrysum bracteatum bloom non-stop from ten weeks after sowing and continue until late autumn. The soft lemon double blooms on tall, well-branched plants are useful for beds and borders and one of the finest subjects for bouquets.
Every garden needs a few easy going plants that give a lot of colour for very little work. Heliopsis ‘New Hybrids’ will produce arm loads of flowers all summer long and never once ask for decent soil or proper care.
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