9 orange-flowered plants for the garden

Petals like bright orange crêpe paper on a poppy, tubular fragrant blooms on a honeysuckle, five-petalled ones scattered over a cinquefoil all summer: orange runs through perennials, shrubs, bulbs, annuals and climbers alike. Nine of them are gathered here for beds, pots, hedges and pergolas, and most repay a sunny, free-draining spot with months of colour.

Check out this list of 9 orange flowers that you can plant in your outside garden.

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The nine orange flowers at a glance

Shrubs, bulbs, annuals and climbers all offer orange, but they don’t ask for the same spot or the same planting window. Use this table to match a plant to the place you have free.

Between them, these nine cover beds, pots, hedges, trellises and pergolas.

3 shrubs with orange flowers

Azalea

• Variety: Rhododendron x knaphill ‘Fire Ball’
• Blooming: in mid-spring to late spring, large red-orange flowers that have long pistils grouped in beautiful clusters appear.
• Foliage: oval, bronze-colored deciduous leaves.
• Planting: from late winter to late spring or from early autumn to late autumn.
• Location: sun or part shade, protected from cold wind. Soil should be light and acidic. Ideal for shrub beds or pots.

Berberis

• Variety: Berberis linearifolia ‘Orange King’
• Blooming: abundant tubular flowers that are bright orange completely cover the shrub in mid-spring. Sometimes, this particular Berberis blooms a second time in mid-autumn.
• Leafage: deep green lanceolate leaves that stay on the tree year-round.
• Planting: in early spring or mid-autumn.
• Location: whether in shrub beds, garden boxes or as a hedge, this shrub can make do with any type of soil. Place it in the sun or in part shade.

Cinquefoil

• Variety: Potentilla fruticosa ‘Mango Tango’
• Blooming: the sweet tasty fruit this cinquefoil is named after definitely matches the appealing cute orange flowers. Simple but numerous five-petaled blooms appear from late spring to early autumn.
• Foliage: deciduous leaves with thin gray-green folioles.
• Planting: from late winter to mid-spring or from early autumn to late autumn.
• Location: best is a sunny or mostly sunny spot with well drained, ordinary or chalky soil. Plant it in a bed, as a standalone, and in containers. Great for hedges, too.

3 bulbs and annuals with orange flowers

Ranunculus

• Variety: Ranunculus asiaticus ‘Orange’
• Blooming: globe-shaped flowers with many petals appear in late spring to early summer. Compose iridescent bouquets with them as cut flowers.
• Foliage: basic green deciduous leaves, fairly lobed that accompany the flower stem as it climbs.
• Planting: plant these bulbs from late summer to late autumn.
• Location: either in flower beds or in containers, with cool, rich soil that drains well. Sun or part sun is fine.

French marigold

• Variety: ‘Fleria’
• Flowering: from early summer to early autumn, frilly double flowers open up. Their smell is a powerful repellent for many vegetable patch pests.
• Foliage: deep green imparipinnate leaves (meaning leaflets grow in pairs with a single leaflet at the tip).
• Planting: sow seeds between late winter and mid-spring, and transfer the seedlings after the last Spring frosts.
• Location: edges, in flowers beds, dotting rock gardens, windowsill garden boxes, pots and of course, as a companion plant in the vegetable patch. Settle it down in light soil, rather on the dry side, with warmth and full sun.

Poppy

• Variety: Papaver orientale ‘Harvest Moon’
• Blooming: hey, a poppy that isn’t red! This particular variety stands out thanks to its thin crumpled petals that are like bright orange crêpe paper, like other poppy flowers.
• Foliage: narrow green leaves with toothed edges.
• Planting: from late winter to mid-spring or from early autumn to late autumn.
• Location: ideal for wild prairie beds or in rocky terrain. Also grows swell in pots and beds. Requires draining soil and full sun.

3 climbing vines with orange flowers

Honeysuckle

• Variety: Lonicera x heckrotii Firecracker®
• Blooming: fragrant powerfully orange blooms, tubular in shape with long yellow pistils.
• Foliage: either deciduous or evergreen, depending on how cold winter is. Rounded, normal green leafage.
• Planting: in early spring or mid-autumn.
• Location: atop a low wall, wire fencing, a pergola or to flow along an old barrel. Honeysuckle loves well-draining deep soil, and favors part shade.

Trumpet vine

• Variety: Campsis grandiflora
• Blooming: large bright orange trumpet flowers from late summer to mid-autumn.
• Foliage: 7 to 9 folioles along a stem, soft green.
• Planting: from early spring to late spring or in early autumn to mid-autumn.
• Location: draining soil, in the sun and sheltered from wind. In the garden, a good place for it would be climbing up a treillis or wire fence, running along a pergola or overflowing from a barrel composition.

Climbing rose tree

• Variety: ‘Alchymist’
• Blooming: apricot-hued double flowers in early summer to midsummer.
• Leafage: oval leaves with serrated edges. These semi-evergreen leaves start out bronze-colored and then shift to green.
• Planting: in early spring or in mid-autumn to late autumn.
• Location: on a trellis, wire fencing, pergola or around an old barrel. This specific climbing rose tree makes do with any kind of soil, as long as it gets either full sun or part sun.

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