We’ve gathered together a variety of 23 different yellow perennial flowers to try in your garden.
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It likes full sun and comes in either spreading (lance-leavedor threadleaf) or clumping varieties.
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Some wonderful yellow cultivars include ‘Moonbeam,’ ‘Jethro Tull,’ ‘Zagreb,’ and ‘Sunray.’
These sun-lovers bloom for weeks in summer and need dividing about every three years.
Give them plenty of sun and well-drained soil.
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Yarrow
Yarrow is an attractive cottage-style perennial that also is known to be a useful medicinal plant.
It is an easy-care perennial thatattracts beneficial pollinatorsto the garden.Deadheading the spent flowerswill encourage more blooms.
The yellow varieties include ‘Moonshine,’ ‘Coronation Gold,’ and ‘Firefly Sunshine.’
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They need full sun but aren’t too fussy about soil.
Once they becomeperennial in your garden, divide them every three years or so.
It is technically a biennial but often reseeds so it behaves as a perennial.
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With full sun, they will bloom for weeks in summer.
This summer bloomer is fairly easy to grow, easily divided, and attracts many butterflies and other pollinators.
Yellow cultivars include ‘HayDay,’ ‘Sombrero,’ and ‘Dakota Gold.’
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It grows in clumps that can get up to three feet wide.
The yellow cultivars include ‘Lemon Meringue’ and ‘American Goldfinch.’
Note that this plant is mildly toxic to humans and animals.
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Butterfly Weed
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Asclepias tuberosais named after the Greek god of healing.
Also called butterfly weed, this herbaceous perennial is known as a food source for monarch butterflies.
The flowers come in shades of orange, yellow, pink, and white.
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These hardy shade-tolerant cottage favorites are biennial flowers that will sometimes reseed in your garden.
Columbine
Columbines are prolific flowering perennials that bloom for weeks in spring.
Also, the harlequin and songbird varieties contain a range of colors and bi-colors including yellow.
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Yellow varieties include ‘Hyperion,’ ‘Happy Returns,’ ‘Yellowstone’ and the reblooming miniature ‘Stella D’Oro.’
Yellow varieties include ‘Daydream, Leilani,’ and ‘Sunrise.’
Some nice yellow cultivars include ‘Yellow Power,’ ‘Golden Matrix.’
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the double-petaled ‘Fata Morgana,’ and ‘Graffiti’ which has bright yellow petals with burgundy accents.
These sun lovers also attract plenty of pollinators.
Yellow varieties include ‘Ice Queen,’ ‘Pineapple Popsicle,’ and ‘Glowstick.’
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Named after the Greek god of the sun, they bloom for weeks in mid-to-late summer.
They need full sun and aren’t too fussy about soil.
Its growth habit is similar but the flowers are a bit larger, and it flowers in spring.
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It looks great tumbling over rocks and adds gorgeous bright yellow to the spring garden.
They bloom from late spring into summer.
The ‘Bungei Yellow’ foxtail lily is a creamy yellow cultivar.
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Planted in the right conditions, these native wildflowers will naturalize throughout your woodland garden.
Though there are some hybrid dwarf varieties, generally, it will grow quite large in the garden.
It can be cut back close to the ground each fall to keep it at a more manageable size.
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The yellow cultivars include ‘Honeycomb’ and ‘Golden Glow.’
When choosing perennials for your garden, consider design elements as well as soil and sun needs.
Yellow blooming plants look wonderful near otherflowering plants with purpleor blue blooms.
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They’re also lovely in groupings of three color families such as yellow with orange and purple.
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