Guest Author - Hellie T.

Here is a selection of yellow flowered English Garden perennials that will look good in your borders and containers throughout the year.
All can be found in an English Garden.



English gardens have a lush look with many of the same coloured plants grouped together for effect.
You can also use them dotted about your garden for naturalistic planting.

For texture add plants with golden variation on their leaves such as Euonymus fortunei Emerald Gold which grows into a bushy two foot high shrub or Ligustrum ovalifolium Aureum which has golden edged leaves but needs to be in full sun to keep its golden glow.

Try a golden leaved conifer if you have the space.
Herbs also go well with your yellow flowers – try planting with feverfew, chamomile or lemon balm to give a softer glowing feel.
They make a good foil to purple and mauve flowering plants.

Spring Flowering

Small Growing Plants
Winter aconcite or Eranthis hyemalis grows to between 2 and 4 inches.
Anemome ranunculis - grows to 8 inches.
Primroses
Cowslips
The Globe Flower –Trollius europaeus which can grow up to 24 inches

Medium Growing Plants
Leopard’s bane or Doronicum pardalianches - grows to approx 30 inches.
Chelidonium majus Flore Pleno - 30 inches .

Shrubs
Forsythia (Spectabilis) or Golden Bell Bush - 8 foot
Kerria japonica - 6 foot.

Summer Flowering

Small
Calceolaria John Innes grows between 6 and 8 inches.
Oenothera tetragonal Fireworks 12 to 18 inches.
Coreopsis verticillata - 16 to 20 inches.
Potentilla recta Warrenii - to 20 inches.

Medium
Geum Lady Stratheden grows up to 24 inches.
Yellow Oxeye or Buhthalnum salicifolium, grows to 24 inches.
Carnations, especially Aldridge Gold or Borello.
Verbascum nigrum grows to 24 -36 inches
Inula Hookeri - 30 inches.
Achillea Coronation Gold - 36 inches.
Phlomis russelina - 36 inches.
Hemerocallis Marion Vaughan - to 36 inches.
Anthemis Tinctoria or Golden marguerite - 36 inches.

Large
Rudbeckia laciniata Goldquelle grows to 5 or 6 foot.
Ligularia przewalskii grows to about 5 foot.

Shrubs
Rose of Sharon or Hypercium - 12 inches.
Tree Lupin Lupis arboreus - to 3ft.
Cytisus nigricans - to 5 ft.
Potentilla Vilmoriniana - 5 foot.
Colutea arborescens or Bladder Senna - approx 10 foot.

For winter try a Winter Jasmine or Jasinum Nudiflorum which will grow to 7 foot but needs the support of a wall or trellis.


A beautiful climber for an arbor is honeysuckle.
It will flower throughout the summer. There are many varieties but the older ones have the best scent.
There are also many lovely yellow flowered roses .

Enjoy your garden!