Yellow flowers in the garden
The yellow flowers light up in spring
Yellow flowers usually dominate the garden in the spring, where the many yellow bulb flowers, tulips, daffodils, winter aconite and crocus, mix well with the blue and violet flowers that are also common in spring.
Yellow has a high luminosity - yellow is lighter than for instance blue. Yellow cannot be mixed with a lot of other colours before it stops being yellow. Therefore a purely yellow flowerbed easily gets too dull and yellow flowers should be combined with other colours.
Welsh poppy
Welsh poppy (Meconopsis cambrica) is self-seeding. The simple, yellow flower is very cute as contrast to for instance blue mountain bluet. It is also easy to keep – once established in reoccurs in the same spot year after year.
Welsh poppy grows everywhere
Winter aconite
Eranthis hyemalis is one of the earliest spring signs and will appear as early as January. It is very suitable along hedges and under shrubs.
Winter aconite - gold in the ground in January
Lady's Mantle
Lady's Mantle (Alchemilla mollis) is a low perennial that blooms with light yellow, fluffy flowers in June-July. The yellow flowers are excellent as a cut flower. Fine drops of water can be seen on the round paw-like leaves.
Lady's Mantle - an excellent cut flower
Forsythia
Forsythia intermedia is a shrub that blooms in April-May. It is recommendable to cut it after flowering by removing old branches at the ground – otherwise it will get very tall and shapeless.
Forsythia - this should have been cut in May
Crocus
The ordinary yellow crocus, Crocus flavus, seeds itself. It looks very attractive under trees and in lawns.
Yellow crocus
Little daffodils
Dwarf narcissus is a mini version of the daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus). This cultivar is known as 'Tete a Tete.
Dwarf daffodils
Ordinary daffodils
Yellow Corydalis
Yellow Corydalis (Pseudofumaria lutea) thrives almost everywhere and spreads easily by self-seeding. It is quite easy to limit if it becomes too dominant. The yellow pipe-shaped flowers bloom from May to October and look pretty in combination with mountain bluet – another self-seeding perennial.
Yellow corydalis - very easy to grow
Loosestrife
Loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata) grows in granny’s garden. It is a tall perennial with star-shaped yellow flowers.
Tall, yellow loosestrife in granny's garden
Tulips
There are plenty of yellow tulips in the garden in April and May.
Yellow tulips by a box
Another kind of yellow tulip
Yellow rose
The giant yellow rose has a wonderful scent.
Yellow rose
Flowerbed design and colour
Blue flowers in the garden
Pink flowers in the garden
White flowers in the garden
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