Pink flowers in the garden
Pink flowers come in all shapes and sizes
Pink flowers in the garden give a striking impression
There are many different kinds of pink flowers, on perennials, but also trees and shrubs. Ida’s garden has a beautiful Japanese cherry tree with bright pink flowers in spring. There is also a couple of large Beautybushes and a little Weigela shrub with lovely pink flowers in midsummer. Finally there is a large number of pink roses, for instance The Fairy, and perennials, for instance Wind flower.
Busy Lizzies
Busy Lizzies (Impatiens wallerana) is a common garden flower – blooms busily and easy to maintain. In frost free conditions it is perennial, but mainly cultivated as an annual. The nonstop blossoms make it an ideal groundcover in shadowy areas.
Busy Lizzies thrive in the shadow
Cherry tree
The Japanese cherry tree (Prunus serrulata) blooms in May with large pink flowers. The brown berries, which come later, do not taste very nice. All the Japanese cherries growing in Denmark have been cultivated on a stem of Prunus avium.
Japanese cherry tree in bloom
Hellebore
The hellebore, or lenten rose, is one of the winter garden's few bright spots. It thrives in shadow. Helleborus orientalis is perennial with deep green leaves and flowers that range from green to purple.
This purple example is a hybrid of Helleborus niger, the genuine Christmas rose, which is not as hardy.
Hellebores in the snow
Bergenia
Bergenia cordifolia blooms in April with beautiful pink flowers. The large, glossy green leaves look juicy green making the evergreen groundcover a popular choice in North side flower beds as it thrives in sun as well as shade.
Bergenia blooms in Spring
Redflower currant
Redflower currant (Ribes sanguineum) blooms from early spring and will really benefit from a trimming in the fall. The pink flowers are showy but rather ill-smelling. The plant is tolerant of shade and drought and has traditionally been a popular choice in the front yard.
Redflower currant
Tulips
There are many different kinds of tulips - this red sort was well established when we moved in, so we don't know what it is called.. It is recommended to cut the flower off, once the flower leaves drop off and let the green leaves wither away. Thus the tulip will produce new bulbs rather than seed itself.
Red tulips
Wind flower
Wind flowers or Japanese anemones (Anemone japonica) are lovely tall white, pink or violet flowers that thrive in the shade. This perennial is easy to grow, spread nicely and flower in the late summer through fall.
Tall Japanese Anemones
Roses - the Fairy
The pink rose known as The Fairy is a popular groundcover rose. If dead flowers are cut off from time to time it will continue flowering until late fall.
The Fairy roses as groundcover
Hortensia
Hortensia blooms with gigantic flowers - often pink. But you can also find blue cultivars.
Voluptuous pink Hortensia
Weigela
Weigela is a shrub that blooms in mid-summer. It is usually fast growing and can get very tall - this however is a dwarf cultivar of about 1,20 metres.
Weigela shrub in bloom
Heather
Heather is a lovely groundcover, for instance under Rhododendron. This cultivar blooms in Autumn, but you can also find many that flower in Spring.
Heather in the fall
Peony
Like Hortensia, Peonies are very showy flowers. They bloom in mid-summer for several weeks - the leaves are also attractive.
Shocking pink Peonies
Abricot
The abricot trees gets pink flowers in early Spring. So early that it becomes vulnerable to frost. If the flowers are subjected to frosty weather, there will not be any fruit later in the summer.
Pink buds on the Abricot tree in February
Beautybush
Beautybush (Kolkwitzia amabilis) gets showy light pink flowers in mid summer. The long arching shoots have dark green leaves and bell-shaped flowers that appear in masses. The Beautybush is excellent in a shrub border. It should be trimmed lightly after the plant has bloomed.
Shrub with pink flowers
Flowerbed design and colour
Blue flowers in the garden
Yellow flowers in the garden
White flowers in the garden
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