Growing Yellow Flowering Shrubs
Below you will find a list of Shrubs from our plant database that are yellow flowering. If you click 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 concept of a shrub can be difficult to define since different people might consider the same plant a groundcover, broadleaf evergreen, bush or tree.
Several of these flowering shrubs are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have disease resistance. Worthy of inclusion in landscaping are these natives: American Elder (Sambucus canadensis); Bush Cinquefoil (Potentialla fruticosa) has many selected cultivars with yellow, peach, orange, red and white blooms; The two best known native Witchhazels are Vernal (Hamamelis vernalis) and Common Witchhazel (H. virginiana). Found naturally throughout much of the central US, both species and many valuable cultivars are fall and winter blooming, good enough reason to include them in the landscape; Cumberland Azalea (Rhododendron (Azalea) bakeri, Flame Azalea (R. calendulaceum), Florida Azalea (R. austrinum) and Oconee Azalea (R. flammeum) have yellow and yellow-orange flowered cultivars; Oregon Grapeholly (Mahonia aquifolium), known as much for its foliage and pretty blue berries, has bright lemon-yellow blooms; Kalm St. Johnswort (Hypericum kalmianum) and Shrubby St. Johnswort (H. prolificum) flower in July and August.
Introduced plants that are garden classics of yellow-flowering shrubs are Forsythia, Brooms (Cytisus), Daphne, Kerria, Showy Jasmine (J. floridum) and Winter Jasmine (J.nudiflorum), Winterhazel (Corylopsis), Witchhazel (Hamamelis), Woadwaxen (Genista).
Don't forget about roses when you are considering yellow flowered shrubs. A huge movement in rose breeding is bringing pest-free and disease-free landscape roses. To get a flowering shrub that flowers spring through frost and is low maintenance is exactly what today's busy homeowners are looking for. Look at the Rose section to see the great varieties.
Bushes that flower yellow 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. Shrubs with yellow blooms look great with green and yellow leaves or needles of variegated groundcovers, ornamental grasses, perennials, evergreens and trees and bright tropicals.
Yellow flowering shrubs are great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.