Any ideas for yellow flowers or a bush with flowers like Yarrow, Baby's Breath, Queen Anne's Lace, etc. that

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grows in Northern Calif. (zone 9B) Everything so far is not a perrenial, is invasive, looks like a week when not blossoming, or something! I've looked through thousands of flowers! Don't you hate it when you have a certain picture in your mind but nothing matches it? Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Yarrow does come in yellow. It is native in the white, A. millifolium.

Kerria japonica. Nice little shrub with puffy yellow flowers early in the year.

Forsitia too.

And calendula. Daisy like. Like the hear and don't need much water.

Marigolds?

Tidy tips (Annual), or Coreopsis (both annual & perennial spp.) are nice yellow wild daisy types. My lance leaf coreopsis have been blooming for a couple months now.

Have you seen the yellow Echinacea? Purple cone flowers with yellow petals.

And there is a Native "coneflower", Rudbeckia spp. that are very nice. Go up around Monterey and Pt Lobos.

Yellow eyed grass is a great little wildflower. Smal and Iris like.

And there are native Iris, the Pacific Coast Hybrids, in yellows and blues, and more colors.

Wish I could see the picture in your head so I might know what you want.

Maybe a large Sedum? Or Dudleya? Succulents that have yellow flowers on stalks.

Native Violets. Nice yellow flowers on groundcover like plants.

Answer 2

I agree about the weed named Queen Anne's Lace-- as a kid we would cut it and put the stems in a vase with colored water (from the 4 bottle baking colors)-- and watched the uptake of the color in the white flower. However, I wonder if Spirea, the old homestead shrub is what the questioner is thinking about. The blooms are much the same but of course the shrub shape is different. So questioner-- use one of the web sites folks have given you and see if you have the right name. I would not be surprised the shrub is Spirea. In fact, many Queen Anne style houses have lots of Spirea around the porch, along with flowering almond and another one I can't remember that also blooms pink at the same time-- no, not Forsythia-- but they are planted with that group, too. good luck

Answer 3

Acacia has a nice yellow flower. It grows profusely all along the highways in Lake County.

Answer 4

Thryallis is nice and can be trimmed as it can get pretty large. It's often used as a landscaping bush. It grows well in FL. It doesn't blossom year round but, it is nice green and woodsy looking shrub.

Answer 5

Send for free gardening catalogs so that you can view flowers and shrubs from the comfort of your home this winter. Here are a couple of links:

http://www.parkseed.com
http://www.burpee.com

Answer 6

Try the Californian sunflowers or golden wild sunflowers. they grow almost round the year periods

Answer 7

I don't know if you guys have forsythia out there. Look it up. It blooms in April in NH

Answer 8

Forsythias are my husbands favorite, they get really big fast, and are quite lovely.

Answer 9

coreopsis is a nice bushy perennial with small, yellow, daisy like flowers.
http://landscaping.about.com/od/galleryoflandscapephotos/ig/Plant-Pictures/Moonbeam-Coreopsis-Picture.htm

Answer 10

yarrow