9 red flowers for a crimson red garden

Red flowers bring intensity and movement to the garden. Whether you create a massive red flower bed or simply pepper the area with red clusters, you’ll feel the garden gains in depth. A great many plant species display deep red blooms in different tones and hues.

Here are three magnificent red-flowered bulbs, three perennials and three shrubs that unveil crimson beauties over the year! Discover:

• A yellow garden
• A purple garden
• An orange garden

The nine red flowers at a glance

Bulbs, perennials and shrubs each play a different part in a red garden: some carry the colour high at the back of a bed, others spill over edges and pots. This table gathers the nine selections, what their flowers look like and where each one belongs.

Read across the table and the reds can be staggered from the first tulips through to the last roses of autumn.

3 red bulb flowers

Plant these in Fall or Spring for your bulbs to decorate your flower beds. Most species also have many other colors, too. Here are three specific varieties that only bear red flowers. They’re perfect for flower beds and pot compositions, and you can also cut them for elegant bouquets.

Dahlia

• Variety: ‘Dark Spirit’
• Blooming: a classic pom-pom flower with red and crimson linings appears repeatedly between early summer and mid-autumn.
• Foliage: regular green rounded folioles.
• Planting: from early spring to late spring.
• Location: in flower beds, along edges, and garden boxes.

Amaryllis

• Variety: ‘Red Lion’,
• Blooming: an evanescent fragrance wafts from a trumpet-shaped flower atop a tall, elegant stem. Blooming period is early autumn to mid-autumn.
• Foliage: long, green leaves sprout from the base of the flower stem once the blooming is over.
• Planting: in mid-spring to late spring or late summer to early autumn.
• Location: in flower beds, along edges, garden boxes and rock gardens.

Tulip

• Variety: Tulipa praestans ‘Fusilier’
• Blooming: produces several imperial red flowers per stem in early spring to mid-spring.
• Foliage: long, wide blue-green leaves that wrap around right from the base of the stem.
• Planting: from early autumn to late autumn.
• Location: in flower beds, along edges, and garden boxes.

 

3 red-flowered perennials

Perennials win the top spot in terms of convenience! Set them up in a flower bed or pot, and they bloom again every year. Here are 3 perennials selected for their dramatically unique styles: wild and free yarrow, elegant and noble peony, and adventurous exotic canna.

Yarrow

• Variety: Achillea millefolium ‘Summerwine’
• Blooming: violet-red flat corymbs.
• Foliage: dark green semi-evergreen leafage, compact and fragrant.
• Planting: between late winter and mid-spring, or from late summer to mid-autumn.
• Location: in flower beds, rocky terrain, in wild prairie settings and pots.

Botanical peony

• Variety: Paeonia tenuifolia ‘Plena’
• Blooming: between mid-spring and late spring, globe-shaped crimson red double flowers appear.
• Foliage: long, extremely narrow leaves, similar to those of fennel.
• Planting: from late winter to late spring or from early autumn to late autumn.
• Location: in flower beds and pots.

Canna

• Variety: Canna indica (shown in feature image)
  
• Blooming: sophisticated small red flowers with an upright bearing from late summer to mid-autumn.
• Foliage: long wide lanceolate green leaves that form a clump.
• Planting: from early spring to early summer, after the last frosts have subsided.
• Location: in flower beds, pots and as standalones.

 

3 red-blooming flower shrubs

Shrubs are also a valuable option, they bring volume to the garden and fill in the rear portions of flower beds. These flowering shrubs will also bring a lot of color! As a backdrop to other shorter bloomers, you’ll find that that oleander, rhododendron and rose bushes truly live up to their reputation of abundant blooming.

Oleander

• Variety: Nerium oleander ‘Otalia’
• Blooming: cute and simple flowers with 5 deep red petals.
• Foliage: linear, green leaves that escalate around each branch, forming a beautiful flowered shrub.
• Planting: in mid-spring or mid-autumn.
• Location: as a hedge, in growing beds, as a standalone and in large containers.

Rhododendron

• Variety: ‘Red Jack’
• Blooming: clusters of trumpet-like inflorescence, with stunning large ruby red flowers.
• Foliage: large oval evergreen emerald green leaves.
• Planting: preferably early spring to mid-spring or early autumn to mid-autumn.
• Location: as a hedge, in growing beds, as a standalone and in large containers.

Rose tree

• Variety: Rosa x polyantha ‘Marondo’® (ground cover)
• Blooming: semi-double roses with a velvety feel, opening to reveal a treasure trove of yellow stamens. Blooming period: Early summer to mid-autumn.
• Foliage: deciduous, shiny deep green.
• Planting: between midwinter and late spring, or from early autumn to early winter.
• Location: atop a mound, in beds, in containers.

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