Orange flowers can add visual interest and sizzle to your garden’s palette. Orange is more powerful when it’s paired with bright red or yellow. Or, you can soften the orange by using blue or purple to contrast it. These are our top orange flowers.
Lantana
The Lantana is a great choice for hot spots in your garden. It produces beautiful flowers and thrives in the heat. It can be used in hanging baskets or containers or as a border plant for a flowerbed.
Fritillaria
Are you looking for something different for your garden? Fritillaria is a striking plant with orange flowers and a tuft of leaves.
Blackberry Lily
The blackberry lily is another unusual plant. It produces beautiful orange flowers that are followed by blackberries. The plant will live for a short time but can be resown to provide future pleasure.
Helenium
Helenium’s long-lasting flowers will make you the envy of your neighbours. They’re also great for cutting flowers.
Poppy of Iceland
This cold-climate poppy is perennial and often biennial. It blooms in late spring on 2- to 3-foot tall stems.
Cosmos ‘Klondike”
This dwarf annual is easy to grow from seeds and produces brilliant orange blooms all summer.
Asiatic £Lily
This lily’s intense orange flowers perfectly match white, pink, pale, or blue summer flowers.
Butterfly Weed
These lean, orange-blooming plants attract many butterflies by opening up clusters of flowers in the middle to late summer.
Red Hot Poker
This perennial is heat-hardy and produces tubular, brush-shaped flowers. Hummingbirds love the variety of yellow, orange, and red flowers.
Silene ‘Catchfly’
This orange-coloured bloomer is best when there are lilac sprigs around its feet. Silene, a North American annual, self-seeds easily.
California Poppy
California poppy seeds can be sown on hillsides, vacant lots or in country gardens. Then, enjoy the summer when their bright orange petals unfold.
Abutilon
This billowy flowering annual, also known as maple, is part of the mallow family. It is a cousin to hibiscus.
Pot Marigold
These annuals are a joy to look at, with their flower power that lasts through the summer and fall.
