Orange Flowers for Your Garden
Orange flowers add sizzle and visual excitement to your garden palette. Orange has even more impact when paired with bold red or yellow—or soften orange by a contrasting it with blue or purple. Here are some of our favorite orange flowers.
Lantana
Perfect for those hot spots in your garden, lantana thrives in the heat, while producing beautiful flowers. Use it in containers or hanging baskets, or along the edge of a flowerbed.
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Fritillaria
Looking for something unique for your garden? Fritillaria brings dramatic flair with orange flowers crowned in a tuft of leaves.
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Blackberry Lily
Another unusual specimen, the blackberry lily produces beautiful orange flowers followed by clusters of black berries. Although the plant is short-lived, it will reseed itself for your future enjoyment.
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Helenium
Get a big bang for your buck—helenium's long-lasting blooms will be the envy of your neighborhood—not to mention, they're great for cut flowers.
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Iceland Poppy
A perennial, often biennial, this cold-climate poppy unfurls rich-hues and silken flowers atop 2- to 3-foot-tall stems during late spring's cool weather.
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'Klondike' Cosmos
Easily grown from seed, this dwarf annual offers waves of brilliant orange throughout the summer.
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Asiatic Lily
The intense orange blooms of this lily harmonize with white, pink, pale orange, or blue summer flowers.
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Butterfly Weed
Clusters of flowers on these lanky orange-blooming plants open in mid to late summer and attract droves of butterflies.
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Red Hot Poker
Brush-shaped, tubular flowers characterize this heat-hardy perennial. The varied combinations of red, orange, and yellow flowers attract hummingbirds.
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Silene 'Catchfly'
This early-summer orange bloomer looks best in drifts of lilac around its feet. An annual native to North America, silene self-seeds freely.
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California Poppy
Sow California poppy seeds on hillsides, in vacant lots, or in country gardens, and celebrate summer as their gleaming orange petals unfurl.Â
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Abutilon
This tall, billowy blossoming annual, also called flowering maple, belongs to the mallow family, making it a cousin of hibiscus.
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Pot Marigold
Enjoy the flower power of these annuals, who keep up their show throughout summer and fall.