A selection of Yellow flowering shrubs and perennials.

For your garden planning. Many plants with yellow flowers, flower quite early in the growing season - but not all. Yellow flowering plants are generally not known or popular for their scent - though many have slight fragrance.

We list here, most of the common yellow flowered plants and exclude some of the rather more specialised plants such as the Yellow Flowered Magnolia Yellow Fever, Yellow River, Canarybird and the like.


	Top Left then clockwise.... Forsythia Lynwood, Fremontodendron, Kerria japonica, Brachyglottis, Ligularia, Lamium, Hamamelis, Knifophia,


	Top left then clockwise = Lysichiton, Helichrysum, Hemerocallis, Euphorbia, Carthamnus, Alyssum, Alchemilla, Erysimum.

Other plants and shrubs to consider include...

Roses - Many hybrid Tea and Floribunda roses together with shrub roses such as Rosa Canarybird, the best of the yellow climbing roses - Rose Golden Showers. Rose Arthur bell is an old favourite - and rightly so. R Graham Thomas being one of the better shrub roses.
Jasminum nudiflorum has bright golden yellow flowers - and in mid winter.
Geum Lady Strathedon, and G reptans. G. reptans being as its name suggests - a low growing perennial with bright gold yellow flowers for a long period.
Potentilla Shrubby types and also some of the perennials have yellow flowers.
Calendula Lemon Queen - one of the better English marigolds, that re-seeds itself. A good yellow.
Erythronium Pagoda is a good early flowering perennial
Erysimum Breedon and E Moonlight are two long flowering wallflowers.
Euphorbia polychroma and E. charachias Lambrook Gold should also be considered.
Iris danfordiae for a bit of low growing early yellow. Follow these with some of the larger upright Flag Irises.
Alyssum 'saxatile' - for rock garden or border front in early spring
Eranthis 'hymalis' - Winter Aconite - is one of the earliest - or latest yellows. Depends whether flowering in December or January!
Inula 'hookerii' or I. 'magnifica' would find a place in any yellow plans I had. As would
Rudbeckia goldsturm - and others - especially the tall growing R Herbstonne.
Heleniums - of which there are many would be represented by the super Helenium Lemon Queen.
Helianthus x multiflora Soliel d' Or is a must.
Mahonias would finish the year off - especially Mahonia x media Lionel Fortescue
Primula veris - The Cowslip would find it's way under a tree or in a rough grass area.
Rhododendron luteum - for the yellow flowers and that scent! Also some of the deciduous Azaleas, and of course Rhododendron 'Yellow Hammer'
Daffodils everywhere
Verbascum Arctic Summer - a right yellow showing up against the downy silver foliage.

That's a good start. Have fun and let us know if you have a favourite that we have missed out. This email will spur us into action.