Short yellow marigold variety unknown
Nothing pops from a distance like yellow flowers. If you want your garden noticed from a distance, plant only yellow flowers. While there are plenty of perennials with yellow blooms, use annuals if you just want to try out a yellow garden and don’t want to make a long-term commitment.
Start with a medium height sunflower in the back. Add tall yellow marigolds, and any of the several varieties of gold or yellow zinnias. Some notable varieties are Yellow Flame, Golden Yellow, or Old Mexico. Then layer in calendula, medium-tall yellow marigolds, yellow petunias, and Bright Lights cosmos. I know Bright Lights also have orange ones in the mix but trust me, it works.
Peach Melba, Moonlight, and Milkmaid are all yellow varieties of nasturtium for the front of the bed.
Burpee has a yellow variety of helenium called Dakota Gold. The daisy-like flowers and feathery foliage will contrast nicely with the familiar annuals already mentioned. They grow 12″-15″ tall and you can order them at www.burpee.com.
Burpee also exclusively has a couple of single French marigolds in yellow: Nema-gone reaches a height of four feet for the back of the bed, and Jaguar (yellow with deep orange-red splotches near the center of the flowers) comes in at just about a foot high.
These caught my eye as I drove by a neighbor's house
Sprinkle in some annual baby’s breath for filler and add a few short to medium sunflowers. There’s even a yellow variety of snapdragons, but they’re usually part of a mixture of colors. Rudbeckia are heat tolerant, yellow daisies that will stay spectacular all summer into fall. Varieties vary in height from eighteen to forty inches.
A yellow garden works best in the front yard to wow everyone who passes by. If you keep your palette in the yellow and gold area you can’t go wrong. By using annuals, you can vary the look from year to year while keeping the color scheme constant. There are enough varieties in the yellow-gold-orange-rust palette that you can keep it pure or branch out into the “yellow” neighborhood. Start planning next year’s yellow garden now while you can observe varieties already growing and blooming.
Send me pictures of your yellow garden.
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