Best Pink Flowers for Your Garden
Add splashes of pink to your garden with this collection of gorgeous, easy-to-grow pink flowers.
By Katie A Ketelsen
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A great companion for coralbells and lungwort, 'Ann Folkard' geranium weaves its chartreuse foliage through other flowers -- and sports magenta-pink flowers.
Name: Geranium 'Ann Folkard'
Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade, and well-drained soil
Size: 12-24 inches tall, 24-30 inches wide
Zones: 5-9
Add fragrance and beauty to your garden with no-fuss, pink-blooming 'Catherine Woodbury' daylily. One of the easiest perennials you can grow, it's sure to be a garden showstopper in early to midsummer.
Name: Hemerocallis 'Catherine Woodbury'
Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade, and well-drained soil
Size: 3 feet tall
Zones: 3-9
'Appleblossom' yarrow is a garden favorite with its soft pink flowers that float above feathery, gray-green leaves. It's a great addition to a cottage garden, is perfect for cutting and drying, and offers great deer and rabbit resistance to boot!
Name: Achillea 'Appleblossom'
Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: 24 inches tall
Zones: 3-9
Hollyhocks have been garden favorites for generations. And what's not to love about their towering spikes of hibiscus-shape flowers? The pink-flowering types are particularly fun in the garden as they seem to blend well with everything.
Name: Alcea rosea
Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: 3-8 feet tall and 1-3 feet wide
Zones: 3-8
A striking addition to the garden, 'Party Dress' anemone pushes out big double pink blooms in autumn -- a time when most gardens could really use an extra shot of color.
Name: Anemone 'Party Dress'
Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade, and well-drained soil
Size: 36 inches tall and wide
Zones: 4-8
Generally planted as an annual, 'Dark Eyes' fuchsia adds a touch of elegance to your garden with its draping, lantern-like, double purple flowers. Plant fuchsia in hanging baskets or containers to give your garden an extra pop of color.
Name: Fuchsia 'Dark Eyes'
Growing Conditions: Full sun to shade and well-drained soil
Size: 24-30 inches tall and wide
Zones: 8-10
Bred by the late Dr. Griffith Buck of Iowa State University, this wonderful shrub rose offers fragrant pink semidouble flowers all summer and fall. It has excellent disease resistance. Try planting it with burgundy foliage such as Diabolo ninebark or 'Velvet Cloak' smokebush.
Name: Carefree Beauty Rosa
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: 4 feet tall and wide
Zones: 4-9
Rose of Sharon brings tropical flair to the garden with its continuous supply of pink blooms. This standout selection also offers variegated foliage! Use it for a focal point in the garden or as a privacy hedge.
Name: Sugar Tip Hibiscus syriacus
Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade, and well-drained soil
Size: To 8 feet tall, 6 feet wide
Zones: 5-8
Few flowers are as opulent as a pink petal-filled peony. This carefree plant blooms in late spring and most varieties waft a delightful fragrance. You can dry the flowers for dried-flower crafts, too.
Name: Paeonia selections
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: 4 feet tall and wide
Zones: 3-8
Among the most beautiful of all tulips, 'Angelique' bears double flowers in a delightful shade of soft pink. It's also long-lived, able to bloom for several years in the right conditions. Plant 'Angelique' with white daffodils for a wonderful spring treat.
Name: Tulipa 'Angelique'
Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: To 15 inches tall and 6 inches wide
Zones: 3-8
Foxgloves are majestic, low-care plants for the woodland garden. Most of the common varieties are biennials, meaning they grow foliage one year, bloom the next, then die. But happily, if you leave them to drop seed, new crops will spring up on their own every year.
Name: Digitalis selections
Growing Conditions: Part shade and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 6 feet tall and 2 feet wide
Zones: 4-8
You'll sometimes see "pinks" used as another common name for dianthus, so it's no surprise this is one of our top picks. Most dianthus are fragrant and many, such as Firewitch offer stunning silvery-blue foliage.
Name: Dianthus gratianopolitanus selections
Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: To 6 inches tall and 18 inches wide.
Zones: 3-8
One of the finest summer-blooming bulbs around, dahlias produce elegant flowers that are perfect for cutting. Plant breeders have given us a wealth of choices -- from blooms that appear in the softest of pink shades to eye-popping cerise. Their size ranges, too, from little 3-inch-wide gems to varieties that have flowers more than a foot wide.
Name: Dahlia selections
Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: From 6 inches to 6 feet tall, depending on variety
Zones: Zones 8-10, but you can dig and store the tubers over winter.
A gorgeous perennial for shady spots in your yard, bleeding heart offers lovely pink blooms that are heart-shaped in bud. The blue-green foliage is a nice contrast to other plants.
Name: Dicentra spectabilis
Growing Conditions: Shade and moist, well-drained soil rich in organic matter
Size: To 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide
Zones: 3-9
What would the summer garden be without phlox? This perennial bears big heads of fragrant flowers in mid- to late summer, often when gardens need it the most.
Test Garden Tip: Grow phlox where it has plenty of air circulation to stop powdery mildew, a common disease of this flower.
Name: Phlox paniculata selections
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide
Zones: 4-8
One of the most popular summer annuals, petunias appear in almost every color. Pink shades are perfect for cool color schemes, though -- try mixing them with purple angelonia, white annual phlox, or burgundy-leaf sweet potato vine.
Name: Petunia selections
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 4 feet tall and wide, depending on type
Zones: Annual
One of the first trees to put on a show in spring, crabapples keep the display going thanks to their lovely red, purple, or yellow fruits that attract birds. And many crabapple selections offer good fall color, too.
Name: Malus selections
Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: From 6 to 25 feet tall and wide, depending on variety
Zones: 3-8
Whoever named this plant purple coneflower was stretching it a bit -- the lovely summertime blooms are definitely more on the pink (or mauve) side. Regardless, it's a wonderful choice for the garden as it offers a ton of flowers, attracts butterflies, and holds up well to heat and drought.
Name: Echinacea purpurea
Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: To 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide
Zones: 3-9
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