Flower color
Orange flowers
278 garden plants with orange blooms, with bloom times, hardiness zones, and sun needs. Build a orange color scheme that lasts across the season.
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How this list is made
Derived from each plant's flower color tags and bloom colors, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 278 plants, 172 have been checked against outside sources (9 fully verified); the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
Orange is the color gardeners say they do not want and then cannot do without. It fights pink, because both carry red at different temperatures and neither will yield; it sings against blue, which sits opposite it on the wheel, and against the bronze and copper of late foliage. It is a late color by temperament: most of the 278 plants below are at their best from midsummer on, when a border wants heat rather than freshness. Use it in blocks. Single orange flowers scattered through a soft scheme read as mistakes, while a drift of them reads as a decision. The orange flowers guide works through the pairings.
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African Marigold
Tagetes erecta
Full sun2 ftModerate1.5 ft wide
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Agastache 'Apricot Sprite'
Agastache 'Apricot Sprite'
Full sunZones 6–111.5 ftLow
Alabama Jubilee Daylily
Hemerocallis 'Alabama Jubilee'
Full sunZones 3–92.5 ftLow
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Aloe
Aloe
Full sunZones 9–111.5 ftLow
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Amber Flower Carpet Rose
Rosa 'Noa97400a'
Full sunZones 4–82.5 ftModerate
Amber Jubilee
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Jefam'
Full sunZones 2–76 ftModerate
Apricot Beauty
Tulipa 'Apricot Beauty'
Full sunZones 3–81.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Apricot Calendula
Calendula officinalis
Full sun1.5 ftModerate1.5 ft wide
Apricot Coral Bells
Heuchera 'Apricot'
Part shadeZones 4–91.5 ftModerate
Apricot Drift Groundcover Rose
Rosa 'Meimirrote'
Full sunZones 4–81.5 ftModerate
Apricot Lisianthus
Eustoma grandiflorum
Full sunZones 8–111.5 ftModerate
Apricot Marguerite Daisy
Argyranthemum
Full sunZones 9–111.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Apricot Ranunculus
Ranunculus asiaticus
Full sunZones 8–101.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Apricot Sparkles
Hemerocallis 'Apricot Sparkles'
Full sunZones 3–91.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Apricot Statice
Limonium sinuatum
Full sunZones 8–111.5 ftLow
Apricot Strawflower
Xerochrysum bracteatum
Full sunZones 8–112 ftLow
Apricot Sweet Alyssum
Lobularia 'Apricot'
Full sun5 inModerate1.5 ft wide
Apricot Tuberous Begonia
Begonia × tuberhybrida
Part shadeZones 9–1112 inModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Apricot Vinca
Catharanthus roseus
Full sun12 inLow12 in wide
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Asiatic Lily
Lilium
Full sunZones 3–83.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
At Last Rose
Rosa 'Horcogjil'
Full sunZones 5–92.5 ftModerate
Autumn Beauty
Helianthus annuus 'Autumn Beauty'
Full sun6 ftModerate1.5 ft wide
Autumn Colors
Rudbeckia hirta 'Autumn Colors'
Full sunZones 3–72 ftModerate
Autumn Moon Japanese Maple
Acer shirasawanum 'Autumn Moon'
Part shadeZones 5–89 ftModerate
Ballerina
Tulipa 'Ballerina'
Full sunZones 3–82 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Bathsheba Rose
Rosa 'Auschimbley'
Full sunZones 5–114 ftModerate
Bengal Tiger
Canna 'Bengal Tiger'
Full sunZones 7–106 ftHigh
Big Sky Sunset Coneflower
Echinacea 'Sunset'
Full sunZones 3–94 ftLow
Black-Eyed Susan Vine
Thunbergia alata
Full sunZones 10–118 ftModerate
Blanket Flower
Gaillardia
Full sunZones 3–101.5 ftLow
Blushing Susie
Thunbergia alata 'Blushing Susie'
Full sunZones 10–118 ftModerate
Bombay Orange
Celosia cristata 'Bombay Orange'
Full sun2 ftModerate1.5 ft wide
Bonfire
Begonia boliviensis 'Bonfire'
Part shade1.5 ftModerate1.5 ft wide
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Bright Lights
Cosmos sulphureus 'Bright Lights'
Full sun3 ftLow1.5 ft wide
FoliageBrilliance Autumn Fern
Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance'
Part shadeZones 5–92 ftModerate
Bronze Gazania
Gazania rigens
Full sunZones 9–1110 inLow
Bronze Mum
Chrysanthemum 'Bronze'
Full sunZones 5–92 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Bronze Snapdragon
Antirrhinum 'Bronze'
Full sun2.5 ftModerate12 in wide
Butterfly Weed
Asclepias tuberosa
Full sunZones 3–92 ftLow
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Calendula
Calendula
Full sun1.5 ftModerate1.5 ft wide
Calibrachoa
Calibrachoa
Full sunZones 9–118 inModerate
California Poppy
Eschscholzia
Full sunZones 6–1012 inLow
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
FoliageCampfire
Coleus 'Campfire'
Part shadeZones 10–111.5 ftModerate
FoliageCaramel
Heuchera 'Caramel'
Part shadeZones 4–91 ftModerate
Cheyenne Spirit
Echinacea 'Cheyenne Spirit'
Full sunZones 4–92 ftLow
Chick Charms Giants Copper Canyon Hens and Chicks
Sempervivum 'Copper Canyon'
Full sunZones 3–84 inLow
Chicklet Orange Tecoma
Tecoma fulva 'Tec14004'
Full sunZones 8–113.5 ftModerate
Color Coded One in a Melon Coneflower
Echinacea 'One in a Melon'
Full sunZones 4–81.5 ftModerate
Common Orange Daylily
Hemerocallis fulva
Full sunZones 3–93.5 ftLow
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Coppertina
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Mindia'
Full sunZones 3–78 ftModerate
Coral Charm
Paeonia 'Coral Charm'
Full sunZones 3–83.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Coral Drift Groundcover Rose
Rosa 'Meidrifora'
Full sunZones 4–111.5 ftModerate
Coral Geranium
Pelargonium 'Coral'
Full sun1.5 ftModerate1.5 ft wide
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Coral Gerbera
Gerbera jamesonii
Full sunZones 8–1112 inModerate
Coral Knock Out Rose
Rosa 'Radral'
Full sunZones 5–84.5 ftModerate
Coral Mum
Chrysanthemum 'Coral'
Full sunZones 5–92 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Coral Petunia
Petunia 'Coral'
Full sun12 inModerate1.5 ft wide
Coral Star Honeysuckle
Lonicera 'Celestial'
Full sunZones 5–910 ftModerate
Coral Sunset
Paeonia 'Coral Sunset'
Full sunZones 3–83 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Coral Tropical Hibiscus
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
Full sunZones 9–115 ftModerate
Orange flowers by season
A plant is counted in every season it flowers in, so a long-flowering one appears in more than one. The named picks are the plants whose whole flowering sits in that season, not the ones that only pass through it.
Spring
March, April and May
129 plants
Summer
June, July and August
226 plants
Fall
September, October and November
165 plants
Orange flowers for shade
42 of these 278 plants will flower in less than a full day of sun.
The longest-blooming orange flowers
90 of these plants hold their flowers for 5 months or more. These are the longest of them.
Orange flowers by height
Mature height, in the three bands a border is planted in. Anything over 10 ft is structure rather than a border plant, and a climber is sized by whatever it is growing up, so both sit this out.
Front of the border
under 12 in
20 plants
Middle of the border
12 in to 3 ft
165 plants
Back of the border
3 ft and up
73 plants
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