Adding Yellow & Orange to Your Flower Garden

November 23, 2008

Yellow is a beautiful, vibrant color that seems to be full of life and happiness. It’s an excellent color to add to your garden too, when you want to attract butterflies, hummingbirds, or other birds. Large batches of bright yellow in the garden are particularly attractive for hummingbirds.

Whether you want to create an all yellow flower garden, or you’d simply like to add splashes of yellow to your existing color mix, here are several suggestions for you…

Desert or Mexican Goldpoppy - These adorable poppy flowers have a color that ranges from yellow to orange, and they bloom from February through May in the Western desert states such as Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas. These flowers open wide on bright sunny days, and close at night time or when it’s cloudy.

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Garden Tip...

This question is frequently asked! Do you recommend the use of artificial fertilizers for house plants, and does it benefit them? I invariably answer yes, if used judiciously. The use of good special fertilizers will help the growth of some kinds of plants, which, without such aid, would scarcely meet our expectations. The term artificial fertilizers, applies to all manurial applications, save those produced by domestic animals.
~ James Sheehan
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Yellow Evening Primrose - This is an herb which is sometimes called a sundrop, and it blooms from February to May in Arizona and California. It’s a small and delicate little yellow flower which opens around sunset, and closes again not long after the sun rises each morning. On cloudy days it may stay open longer too.

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Garden Tip...

Three things are absolutely essential in the sowing of seeds, in order to have that success which we all desire to attain:

First; care should be taken to obtain fresh, pure seeds, without which all our after work with them will be in vain.

Second; the soil in which to sow them should be a fine, mellow loam, free from stones and other coarse materials.

Thirdly; sowing the seed. The general custom is to sow in drills. The depth at which seeds should be sown must of course be regulated according to their fineness, or coarseness.
~ James Sheehan
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Yellow Jessamine - This bright yellow funnel shaped flower grows on vines which can reach up to twenty feet in length. The vines like to climb trees, and sometimes they’ll even reach from one to another as they grow. The beautiful yellow flower blooms are sweetly scented, and they tend to bloom from March through May.

Coreopsis - These cheerful little yellow flowers look a bit like a daisy. Some varieties have petals which are primarily yellow, with a touch of dark orange in the center. Coreopsis are drought resistant perennials, which look wonderful in hanging baskets, flower beds, or wild flower gardens.

Nasturtium - This is an edible annual flower which blooms in bright yellow or orange. It can be grown as a small compact bush type of plant, or as a vine, and they prefer to grow in full sunlight. They don’t do well with heat however, preferring areas which have cool dry summers instead.

This is of course just a small sampling of the various kinds of flowers you can grow which bloom in shades of bright yellow or orange. If you prefer more formal looking flowers in your garden, you’ll be happy to know there are plenty of yellow roses and yellow tulips you can grow too. Alternatively if you’d like a wildflower or natural garden, there are also many different native plants which produce yellow and orange flower blooms too.

Who does not like yellow flowers? That color is not for everyone.

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