You have chosen monochrome for your garden and you want a single color to stand out through the greenery. You have selected your decorative accessories accordingly: your cushions, throws, pots, and planters have been skillfully chosen to highlight your thematic accent color. Now you want to extend the concept to the flowering of your flower beds. If you opt for the color red or yellow, here are some plants you should definitely include in your landscaping.
A Red-Colored Flower Bed
Red, the color of passion. It is the color of love and desire. Amidst the green foliage of all kinds, red flowers know how to carve out a special place and add punch to any plant decor.
- Perennial: Scarlet Bee Balm
With its tousled appearance, this perennial has everything to please. It attracts pollinators, and hummingbirds love it! It is also a delicious edible flower that allows you to extend the accent color concept beyond the garden: serve it to your guests in a salad, in flavored butter, or as decoration on their evening cocktail. Bee balm loves full sun but can tolerate semi-shaded areas. Keep the soil moist.
- Annual: Red Zinnia
For your full sun locations, consider the ‘Red Scarlet’ or ‘Profusion Red’ zinnia which produces a good number of bright red flowers throughout the season. It is a plant friendly to bees and butterflies. You can even use the flowers to decorate your table: they make excellent cut flowers.
- Shrub: Weigela
Nothing like shrubs to provide structure and depth to your flower beds. The ‘Florida Red Prince’ weigela produces beautiful bright red flowers from May to September. Weigelas are known for being resistant to insects and diseases. Plant them in full sun or slightly shaded areas and keep the soil moist, as they do not like drought.
A Yellow-Colored Flower Bed
Yellow, it’s the sun, it’s energy. It brings light even on the grayest days. It can be very vibrant or more delicate and pairs wonderfully with the green of your foliage.
- Perennial: Threadleaf Coreopsis
The threadleaf coreopsis will present you with a multitude of small bright or pale yellow star-shaped flowers, depending on the chosen cultivar, that seem to float above the foliage. It is a hardy plant. Coreopsis blooms long and abundantly and adapts to all types of soil, as long as it is well-drained. Plant it in the sun.
- Annual: Yellow Calibrachoa
Also called Million Bells due to its very numerous small bell-shaped yellow flowers, the yellow calibrachoa is an easy-to-care-for plant. It remains in bloom all summer. Since it is trailing, place it as ground cover in your flower beds or on the edge of your planters for a cascade of beautiful yellow flowers.
- Shrub: Shrubby Cinquefoil
Shrubby cinquefoil is cultivated for its long yellow bloom that almost entirely covers the plant. Each shrub can reach a meter in width and height, making it a plant of choice for hedges or isolated in a flower bed, in the sun or partial shade.
Visit a local Passion Jardins garden center to discover even more plant varieties that will allow you to bloom your summer.
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