Trailing Plants for Yellow Flower Gardens

When building a garden design, no gardener will want to leave out trailing or sprawling plants. Plants that trail, weep or sprawl are useful as ground covers, in containers, porch rails, hanging baskets or other garden spots where their unique growth habit can be appreciated. Here are some yellow flowering options for trailing plants in a yellow themed garden design.

Lantana (Lantana camara) ‘Spreading Bouquet’ – Lantana is a tender perennial plant that is often grown as an annual and available from most plant nurseries and garden centers. ‘Spreading Bouquet’ has a trailing growth habit and flower clusters that are yellow with tinges of pink, peach and apricot throughout creating a beautiful rainbow effect. Like most lantanas, ‘Spreading Bouquet’ is a great addition to a butterfly garden as well. Other yellow lantana selections include ‘Goldsonne’, the Landmark Series ‘Yellow’, ‘Lucky Yellow’ and an unusual cultivar with variegated foliage called ‘Samantha’.

Moss Rose (Portulaca grandiflora) – A succulent and drought tolerant annual plant, the moss rose is a perfect choice for a hot weather or xeriscape yellow garden design. The moss rose is available with a wide variety of flower colors including bright yellow, pale yellow and bicolored flowers, usually yellow and orange or yellow and red. Give moss roses full sun and medium to light watering for weeks of lovely blooms that can hang gracefully down from a porch rail box, hanging basket or rock ledge. While moss rose is considered an annual plant many gardeners find that the flowers readily self-sow and reseed themselves.

Trailing Petunia ‘Baby Duck Yellow’ or ‘Prism Sunshine’ – Sow seeds in early spring for lovely, creamy-yellow blooms all season long. These trailing petunias are excellent choices for hanging baskets, containers and other yellow garden design components. Petunias have been selected as an All-America Selections Winner many years because of how long they bloom each year and how easy it is to grow petunias from seed. ‘Dolce Limoncello’ has a golden throat with lighter, cream-colored trumpet on its blooms and makes another nice Petunia for the yellow themed garden.

Trailing Snapdragons (Antirrhinum ‘Luminaire’) – One of the nicest trailing snapdragon varieties available, the Luminaire series has four colors that would be of interest to a gardener wanting to add a snapdragon to his yellow garden design. All the Luminaire snapdragons reseed regularly and have large flowers for weeks through the summer and fall months. ‘Yellow Luminaire’ is a bright golden yellow, often with white streaks through it while ‘Deep Yellow’ has darker yellow, solid blooms. There are two bi-color Luminaire snapdragons that could be used in a yellow design garden as well; ‘Bronze-Yellow’ with burgundy-brown flowers and yellow or ‘Orange-Yellow’ with brighter orange and yellow blooms.

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