Bushes that flower yellow 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. Shrubs with yellow blooms look great with green and yellow leaves or needles of variegated groundcovers, ornamental grasses, perennials, evergreens and trees and bright tropicals. Yellow flowering shrubs are also great at attracting butterflies and birds, particularly hummingbirds.

Several of these flowering shrubs are native plants, which are more naturally insect resistant, salt tolerant and have disease resistance. Worthy of inclusion in landscaping are these natives: American Elder; Bush Cinquefoil has many selected cultivars with yellow, peach, orange, red and white blooms; The two best known native Witchhazels are Vernal and Common Witchhazel. Found naturally throughout much of the central US, both species and many valuable cultivars are fall and winter blooming, good enough reason to include them in the landscape; Oregon Grapeholly known as much for its foliage and pretty blue berries, has bright lemon-yellow blooms; Kalm St. Johnswort and Shrubby St. Johnswort flower in July and August.

Introduced plants that are garden classics of yellow-flowering shrubs are Forsythia, Brooms, Daphne, Kerria, Showy Jasmine and Winter Jasmine, Winterhazel, Witchhazel, and Woadwaxen.

Don't forget about roses when you are considering yellow flowered shrubs. A huge movement in rose breeding is bringing pest-free and disease-free landscape roses. To get a flowering shrub that flowers spring through frost and is low maintenance is exactly what today's busy homeowners are looking for. 

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