YELLOW FLOWER LOVE
Dreaming of flowers yet to appear: and all of these are yellow.
I was never really keen on yellow flowers, but preferred the blues and pinks. But that was in a different climate! Here, in the Piedmont of North Carolina where the summers can be brutal, it’s the yellow flowers that outshine, and outlast, all others.
A page from my garden planner!
I had posted this two years ago!
My Recommendations:
for (almost) foolproof, heat tolerant, summer flowering yellows
- Helianthus ‘Table Mountain’
- Heliopsis ‘Summer Sun”
- Rudbeckia ‘Irish Eyes’ aka ‘Gloriosa Daisy’
- Helianthus ‘Western Sunflower’
- Rudbeckia ‘Henry Eilers’
I have grown all of these and love them. They do seem to flower a little earlier each year that they are in the garden..but that’s fine with me. Just be sure they are not in damp, wet soil. They love dry. With all the rain we have here for the last […]