Flowers for Gorgeous Colour

Choosing colour is probably the most fundamental way we can express ourselves with our gardens. You can use colour to create a soothing and harmonious calm space, or an exuberant, in-your-face visual party. To help you design your garden palette, we have a selection of single-coloured flowers. You can get creative with mixing and matching, to really make your garden pop. Here are just some of our favourites!

If you like cool tones, have a look at Yates 'Carpathian Bellflower' - a showy perennial that produces masses of large, open faced, starry violet blue flowers covering the entire plant. Sticking with the cool theme, Yates Viola 'Sorbet Violet Face' produces masses of charming little flowers, with deep purple petals in contrast with crisp white faces, sketched with darkest purple. Or try Yates Viola 'Sorbet Marina' for an elegant statement, with it's delicate, graceful periwinkle-blue flowers. Both are unique and high-performing violas that look stunning in garden beds, pots or hanging baskets. And the flowers are edible, so you can add their gorgeous colour to your dishes for a bit of extra flair.

If you started with a choice of violet or blue, you can really supercharge them by pairing them with a 'complementary colour', like yellow. For example, a combination of Yates Petunia 'Mirage Yellow' and Yates Lobelia 'Riviera Midnight Blue' is a spectacular visual mix. The vivid colours really accentuate each other, but they're still harmonious and pleasing to the eye.

Yates Viola 'Sorbet Violet Face'

Whites are a brilliant choice in the garden, as you can use them to make any other colour really pop. Pure white is a great contrast colour that really stands out, especially at dusk and after dark. If you'd like to add strong vertical accents to a garden bed, have a look at Yates Delphinium 'Galahad'. Named for the chivalrous knight from the legend of King Arthur, Galahad produces tall spires of pure-white satiny flowers. A very versatile alternative is Yates Snapdragon 'Snapshot White', a cool weather performer that produces abundant white spikes of flowers, on bushy, compact dwarf plants.

If you'd prefer a warm orange and red palette, we have some hot options. Yates Gazania 'Arcturus' is a brightly glowing, unique variety, bred to produce large, radiant orange flowers. Yates Gaillardia 'Amber' is a beautiful perennial bi-coloured daisy in warm, sunny amber tones, with golden yellow tips.

For deeper, moody reds, Yates Rudbeckia 'Cherry Brandy' is a romantic, richly-coloured selection, with flowers shading from deep crimson to carmine red and dark chocolate eyes. It's a real beauty in a vase, too.

Yates Gazania 'Arcturus'

When you want effortless colour, it doesn't get any easier than wildflower blends! Wildflowers are incredibly easy to sow and care for - simply clear a patch down to bare soil, sprinkle the seed and gently rake it into the soil surface. Wildflower mixes will self-seed and keep on blooming in a constantly-evolving display through the year.

If you're picturing a riotous, colourful field of mixed flowers, you can't go wrong with Yates 'Wildflower Meadow', Yates 'Shady Woodland Mix', or Yates 'Tough & Hardy Mix'. If you like the thought of a more coordinated colour palette, try the delightful Yates 'Carpet of Blue', lustrous Yates 'Carpet of Pinks', or the fabulously vibrant Yates 'Mexican Fiesta Mix', hand-picked from our favourite Central American flower species.

You can keep all these flowers looking lovely by pulling off dead blooms, cutting back leggy plants and feeding each season with Yates Thrive Rose & Flower Granular Plant Food. Alternatively, you can do a regular watering can feed with Yates Thrive Fish Blood & Bone Plant Food.

Yates Rose Gun is a convenient, ready to use solution for most pests and diseases, so it's good to have a 3L bottle handy (you can use it on all types of flowering annuals, perennials, roses or shrubs).