Add Orange Flower Perennials To Your Garden
Adding orange flower perennials to your garden can spice it up and add depth of color.
Orange even goes with other colors that you normally wouldn't think of like purple and red - try it and see how great it looks! Orange flowers look good any time of year, but are especially great for a fall garden - if you buy perennials that come up in late august and September, you can mix them with some marigolds and yellow and red Mums for a great fall look.
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Perennials are easy to plant and come up again each year. They should be planted in early spring and require well drained soil and should be mulched in the summer. Since perennials bloom only for a short period of time, you should plan your garden so that each area has blooms all year by planting perennial flowers with different bloom times near each other - that way one spot of your garden won't look bare once the blooms fall off.
Pinching dead flowers from your perennial plants will cause it to produce more blooms and contribute to the overall health of the plant.
Some perennials that have orange somewhere on them are listed below. They have different bloom times and grow to different heights, but each will add beauty to your garden. When thinking about planting perennials, don't forget to check with your garden supply to make sure they are suited for your climate.
Orange Flower Perennials
Butterfly Weed - Blooms in summer and can grow to 3ft with compact clusters of bright orange flowers - yes, it does attract butterflies!
clivia - Blooms in spring with a large clump of medium orange flowers and can grow to 18 inches. These flowering perennials like light shade and don't do well in areas that receive frost. Can be propagated by dividing the clump or grown from seed.
Day Lily - This common perennial can sometimes be seen just growing wild and blooms in summer on 30" tall stalks with large open flowers. You can grow them pretty much anywhere and they do transplant well. One stalk can have over 40 flowers so a lily bed can be in bloom for a month or more. They require little to no care.
Gaillardia - Blooms in summer with orange daisy like flowers that can be as large as 4" across. The plant itself grows to about 2'. For shorter plants, there is a dwarf variety available. These plants love full sun and are quite hardy. Bloom time can be extended throughout the summer if you cut off the fading flowers. These also attract butterflies.
Gloriosa Daisy - Blooms in late summer and can grow to 2 feet. It produces long petaled daisy like orange flowers suited for all climates. They are easy to grow and reseed themselves
Helianthemum - Blooms in summer and is a good ground cover growing to about 10". This flower is easy to grow on rocky slopes and creates a border of color. Can bloom twice - in early summer and then again in late summer.
Monkey Flower - This perennial blooms in early summer and grows to 30”. Plant in wet shady areas – will reseed itself if grown in a swampy or continually moist spot.
Oriental Poppy – Beautiful orange flowers that bloom in spring and grow to 24”. Grow in sunny area with well drained soil. Good for most any area and the plant will grow larger but is not too invasive.
Potentilla – Blooms in summer and grows to 18”. A flowering shrub with small 5 petal flowers and very easy to grow.
Torch lily - This interesting perennial blooms in summer and produces spikes of orange cone shaped flowers that can grow to 6 feet. Plant in sunny location great for zones 5 – 10 and also attract hummingbirds.
Trollius - Blooms in late spring and grows up to 3 feet. Prefers a moist rich soil to produce it’s beautiful multi petalled flowers.
Trumpet Creeper - This perennial vine blooms in mid to late summer. Trumpet shaped flowers hang from lush vines on this plant that clings to anything and can grow up to 30 feet. With nothing to cling to it will look like a shrub. The flowers which bloom from June to September can get up to 3” in length. This plant can grow quickly and attracts humming birds.
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