Any ideas on what type of yellow and/or purple flowers would be nice to fill a flowerbed with in Kentucky?

Question

I have a flowerbed that wraps around the majority of my house. We plan to plant it full of flowers in a few weeks. We are curious to know what type of nice purple and/or yellow flowers would thrive in Kentucky this time of year.

Answer 1

Coreopsis and galardia would be good yellow flowers. Cosmos are great and come in both yellow and purple. Small, branch sunflowers always look bright and cheerful in a garden. There is also a plant called a Red Hot poker which goes from yellow to red. Nasturtiums stay clase to the ground, can be toally yellow or a variey and the leaves are quite attractive. For ground cover, yellow creeping sedum is a wonderful plant. For purple, balloon flowers are quite pretty as are New england asters (will bloom in fall) You cant beat good old fashioned purple irises. Canterbury bells also come in shades of purple. There are also some wonderful columbines that you can grow that are huge and are totally purple. Most of these plants can be put in as soon as danger of frost is over. You can also put in pansies, ageratum, johnny jumpups, and crystal palace lobelia. These stay low to the ground. Snapdragons come in any size and any color and will bloom all summer.

Answer 2

right now.. pansies. the garden centers are full of them. They will do fine until it starts getting hot. You can get both colors in different varieties.. all purple, all yellow, and combinations of purple with yellow and yellow with purple eyes.. I have these in my beds right now.

After that, I'd look at grape cooler vinca and coreopsis moonbeam. The corepsis is a perennial and will come back next year. Plant them where you'd want them to come back next year. Vinca is an annual and you'll need to replant. If you want two perennials, look at perennial salvia.. nice purple color and interesting flower shape.

With flowers, bear in mind that few flowers last all season.. Vinca tends to be a long term bloomer, but a lot of the others don't.

Answer 3

This time of year????? Your problem is your frost date. If you are still having frosts until mid April, then the frost sensitive plants won't work.

Then your problem is it takes a few weeks for plants to become established and start blooming.........but they won't peak for at least a month or so.

If you truly mean........a few weeks, get thee to the garden center and buy up as many full flowering or nearly full flowering pansy flats. Plant them close together.....like nearly touching, in clusters through the garden. Also look for already flowering anythings and do the same..... snap dragons are another thought.

Gardens take a long time to come together, they are hard to throw together with only a few weeks notice.....especially in this early season.

Answer 4

Pansies, lavander, marigolds, and lilies for starters.