Yellow flowers are the sunny patches of the garden. From the earliest daffodils to the latest sunflowers, they are the most cheerful and happiest of colors. They bring out the best in whites, pinks, and purples.
A river of daffodils marks the beginning of spring
Among the earliest of the daisy types--the Leopard's Bane of heart-shaped leaves and sparkling yellow flowers--Doronicum blooms among the periwinkle.
Corydalis Lutea, the Crested Lark of the Papaver family. A small mounding plant, corydalis does best in front of other plants, in filtered shade. This little plant bloomed its heart out all season long.
Hardy to -30 degrees, Carefree Sunshine produces arching canes studded with these lemon-yellow semi-double roses all season.
Fragrant Sunsprite from Kordes, one of the best of the yellow floribundas, with perfect hybrid tea form.
Hemerocallis Hyperion--the 1925 reblooming daylily cultivar that has withstood the test of time--is an essential in my country garden. Fragrant and fleeting, on a winter-hardy, drought-resistant, ever-enlarging clump, with yellow lily-blossoms opening and closing over the course of 24 hours. This makes it hard to photograph since the plant is usually littered with limp and dying daylily blossoms! But we forgive everything because of the bright yellow open ones.
Vast swaths of yellow solidago in the late summer garden, courtesy of goldenrod Peter Pan.
One of the last to bloom, the towering Helianthus Marc's Apollo, with lemon-yellow daisies covering a huge plant whose parentage includes the Swamp Sunflower. Make sure you give this one lots of room and plenty of sunshine, and it will produce blossoms for a month or more.
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