Yellow Flowering Annuals
Below you will find a list of Annuals from our plant database that are yellow flowering. If you click on any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping.
The annuals, also commonly referred to as bedding plants, can be grown directly in the ground, in containers for patios and decks, window boxes or in hanging baskets and planters. Annuals, with their blast of color, are used for edging, mass of color, filling in spots between established shrubs, trees and evergreens and as groundcovers. Mixed containers are in vogue, often a blend of annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses and even tropicals to take the urn, window box or decorative planter through the spring, summer, fall until frost. Most of these annuals grow well with average soil moisture and partial or full sun, though some can take full shade giving the home gardener more options for use in the landscape. Attention generally needs to be taken to be sure that plants in pots, planters and hanging baskets have adequate water since containers dry out faster.
Some bedding plants with yellow flowers are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have natural disease resistance. Easy to grown native Sunflowers have had numerous cultivars developed with a wider range of colors and plant height. Alot of breeding work has also been done with beggar's tick, fennel-leaf tick or Bidens ferulifolia, native to the Desert Southwest. These improved Bidens cascade nicely from hanging baskets and large decorative planters and look lovely mixed with other annuals of other colors.
The most well-known annuals with yellow blooms are: Black-eyed Susans, Calibrachoa or Trailing Petunia, Canna Lily, Cape Daisy, Cockscomb, Cosmos, Evening Primrose, Gazania or Treasure Flower, Hibiscus, Lantana, Marguerite Daisy, Marigolds, Moss Rose, Nemesia or Paintbox, Pansy, Petunia, Pocketbook Flower, Poppy, Snapdragon, Statice, Strawflowers, Sunflowers, Verbena and Zinnias.
Annuals with yellow flowers add a brightness, capturing the sunshine. Yellows and Golds blend surprisingly well with cool colors purple and blue but also with warm colors of red, orange and peach. Bedding plants with yellow blooms look great with green and yellow leaves or needles of variegated groundcovers, ornamental grasses, flowering shrubs, evergreens and trees and bright tropicals.
Flowering annuals by their very nature are great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.