Yellow flowering perennials add brightness, capturing the sunshine. Yellows and golds blend surprisingly well with cool colors purple and blue but also with warm colors of red, orange and peach. Perennials with yellow blooms look great with green and yellow leaves or needles of variegated groundcovers, ornamental grasses, flowering shrubs, evergreens and trees and bright tropicals. Yellow flowering perennials are great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.

Europe and Asia have given American gardeners thousands of yellow blooming Basket-of-Gold Alyssum, Buttercups, Daylilies, Globeflower, Golden Marguerite, Lily of the Incas and Sulphur Cosmos.

Most of these perennials grow well with average soil moisture and partial or full sun, though some can take full shade giving the home gardener more options for use in the landscape.  Yellow flowering perennials can be grown directly in the ground, in containers for patios and decks, window boxes or in hanging baskets and planters. Mixed containers are in vogue, often a blend of annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses and even tropicals to take the urn, window box or decorative planter through the spring, summer, fall until frost.

Some perennials with yellow flowers are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have natural disease resistance. Easy to grown natives include Bigflower Tickseed, Black-eyed Susans, Blanket Flower and their hybrids, Wood Poppy for the moist woodland garden, Marsh Marigold and Western Helen's Flower for moist areas.

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