Mari,

I am so sorry about your sister but welcome home. My yard and garden needs to be re-claimed also and I am putting in some new beds, so I feel your pain. They take a lot of work. Be sure to plant a memory plant, so you can think of your sister everytime you look at it making your garden beautiful. Carol

Mari,

I am so sorry about your sister too. I hope you are comforted by your memories of the times you two shared and also by knowing you did all you could to help her.

Welcome home and welcome back to the forum.

Dawn

Thank you both for the warm welcome back. Carol, that's a great idea about a memory plant. I didn't think about it, but I will look for something she liked. She seemed to favour yellow flowers because everytime I bought her flowers she would comment on the yellow ones. Any ideas?

I would love to get something that comes back every year.

It is fortunate that your sister had you to take care of her. I am sure it was hard on you. Do deciduous azaleas grow where you live? I have an orange one that is fragrant that I like very much. I think they come in yellow also. Daffodils or a daffodil garden comes back year after year if you put them where you don't have to mow. They make me think of a memory garden because I used to dig them up from old home sites. I always thought of the people who planted them - long gone and the houses long gone, but the flowers where there for me to plant at my house.

I'm so sorry about your sister. That's a great idea to plant a memory garden or plant! I was going to suggest daffodils as well. I'm not much into ornamentals but have always had a special fondness for daffodils -- for the same reasons Helen mentioned.

Mari,

There are many yellow-flowered plants you could consider using. In addition to the ones previously mentioned, you might want to consider any of the following:

PERENNIAL FLOWERS:

Parker's Yarrow 'Cloth of Gold' (Achillea filipendula)
"Moonshine Yarrow" (Achillea taygetea)
Golden Creeping Yarrow "Aurea" (Achillea tomentosa)
Basket of Gold "Gold Ball" (Aurinia saxtallis)
Garden Mum (many yellow-flowered ones available)
Coreopsis "Tequila Sunrise" yellow-flowered tickseed with variegated foliage
Coreopsis grandiflora "Cutting Gold", "Early Sunrise" and "Surefire"
Coreopsis vercillata "Zagreb" and "Moonbeam"
Echinacea 'Big Sky Sunrise' is one of the new hybrid echinaceas that are available in colors other than the traditional purple
Gazania linearis "Colorado Gold" is a gazania daisy that is perennial in zones 3-8
Helianthus maximilliani "Maximilian's Sunflower" is a native sunflower that gets huge and blooms in the summer
Sunray (Innula ensifolia)
Yellow Evening Primrose (Oenothera glazioviana)
Pine-leaf Penstemon (Penstemon pinifolius "Mersea Yellow")
Rudbeckia fulgida "Goldsturm" (Black-eyed Susan)
Rudbeckia nitibia "Herbstonne" (Green-eyed Coneflower)
Rudbeckia speciosa "Viette's Little Suzy"

SPRING-BLOOMING SHRUBS:
Forsythia
Flowering Clove Currant (Ribes odoratum)
Witch Hazel (All witch hazels have yellow flowers I think. Hamamelis vernalis is a witch hazel that is native to the Ozarks.)
Lady Banks Rose (both white-flowered and yellow-flowered ones are available)
American Cross Vine
Trumpet Creeper "Flava" (orange varieties are more common than this yellow one)

Some herbs have yellow flowers. A couple that come to miind are Tansy and St. John's Wort.

There also are many yellow-flowered roses and daylilies available. Yellow-flowered cannas are another option.

That should give you a few to think about.

Dawn

Mari, I will be digging daffs in May. If you want to pay postage, I will be glad to send you a few. Or if you are close enough to Adair Co and want to come dig, you can have a lot more.

How sweet of you Mulberry!! Sure, I'll pay postage. Why are you digging them up in May? Around the 16th May, we will be in Yukon, OK for a weekend. Is that close to you?

Dawn, thanks for the extensive list of yellow flowers. I had no idea there were so many.

And I love, love Daffodils. Aren't they mainly flowering during Spring (early)? Hmmmm...now I'm thinking of setting aside an area as a Memory garden. That would be neat.

Sorry Mari, I have had a stressful week and I haven't had much time to be on the computer, but it looks like you have suggestions for a beautiful yellow garden from all of your Oklahoma pals. Stick around, you are in good hands here. As you can see, the experts have already started to respond. Carol

Mari, I'm sorry for your loss. My grandfather passed last week, and it's never easy to say goodbye to someone you love.

As far as yellow flowers go, may I recommend Heliopsis? I'll attach a pic of one of mine. They're super easy to grow, bloom ALL summer long, and they come back every year.