August is filled with long, sunny days brightening up our lives with its warm sunshine. To bring that summertime energy indoors, yellow flowers can brighten up a home. Yellow cut flowers for August come in all shapes from focals, disks, spikes, and fillers.
Yellow Sunflowers for Cut Flowers
For mid-summer, sunflowers are a staple piece to the cut flower garden, especially for yellow cut flowers. For bringing in the sunshine indoors, these are a must with their sunny colors.
Buttercream sunflowers are a branching variety. Their centers are a dark brown followed with petals the shade of butter. They are a creamy, pale yellow that gradients from a light yellow to an ivory at the tips of the petal.
Gold Lite sunflowers are a single-stem variety. The whole flower emits a golden hue through its center with the lime center transforming into a light shade of gold. The petals shine a light gold.
White Nite sunflowers area a single-stem variety in the Pro-Cut series. The centers are chocolately, nearly black. The petals have an ivory tint that near the edges look almost pure white.
Henry Wilde sunflowers typically have a dark center with golden-orange petals. In my garden, I had one volunteer sunflower grow exactly like all the other Henry Wilde sunflowers, but the only difference is it had a golden-brown center, rather than a chocolately center. The petals were of the same golden-orange hue as the other Henry Wilde’s.
Scabiosa
Most of my scabiosa were in shades of blue, pink, and a dark burgundy. One plant produced yellow scabiosa blooms. They are not a bright yellow, but a matte dark ivory. This was from a mix from Baker Creek.
Calendula for Yellow Cut Flowers
My Ivory Princess calendula plants that volunteered from last year produced blooms throughout the summer and fall months. Pacific Mix is another calendula mix that offers a bright yellow bloom.
Ivory Princess calendula has smaller blooms, but transform from light yellow petals to a pale yellow and ivory.
Zinnias as Yellow Cut Flowers
Zinnias are one of my favorite yellow cut flowers; not only because they can be started from seed directly in the ground, but they are beautiful. My favorite flowers change every week, but at times these beat even my double-petaled sunflowers.
Benary’s Giant Golden Yellow zinnias are true to their name. Their multiple layers of petals are of that sunny shade of yellow. Some are singles with the same color.
Isabellina zinnias are beautiful, as their name entales. Their color is more of a mix between ivory and a light yellow. They’re not as pale as Ivory Princess Calendula, but they have a much lighter hue than the golden yellow zinnias. I’ve had a few of these have layers of petals equal to that of the Benary’s Giant series. However, for the most part, these were singles.
Marigolds: My Favorite for Yellow Cut Flowers
Oh my love of flowers. Marigolds can be orange, but my heart is for the Giant Yellows, which is a hybrid variety. When growing heirloom African marigolds, some can be double blooms, while others can open up too much where it doesn’t have that uniform marigold look. This hybrid variety is standard with every bloom.
The shade of yellow is bright. It’s not pale, nor golden, but the hue is my favorite.
Shasta Daisy
Shasta daisies have bright white petals with yellow centers. They are perfect to add to yellow cut flower gardens, or a yellow floral arrangement. It adds a touch of yellow without being overwhelming.
Cosmos
Oh boy, give me some slack. I’m adding a white flower to this list of yellow flowers. Yellows come in all shades. From golden-oranges, golden-yellows, and bright yellows to light-yellows, pale-yellows, and ivories, white hues just go along collaborating with the pale-yellow side.
White cosmos adds a whimsical beauty to the cut flower garden and bouquets.
Snapdragons
Snapdragons are ideal for spike flowers. They are so classy and elegant. The ruffled petals climb up the spike of the flower. Main-season snapdragons are necessary for the summer blooms, compared to the cooler varieties of Chantilly and Costa.
Johnny’s Potomac Yellow is a bright yellow, a shade under that of Giant Yellow marigold.
Madame Butterfly Yellow is a paler yellow, more of a mix between a buttercream and a bright yellow.
Celosia
Celosia is a summertime spike flower that fills in a bouquet with its frilliness. The Pampus Plume mxi has a golden yellow variety that matches other yellow flowers. It contrasts the snapdragons with being of a golden hue, much like that of a summer sunset.
Statice
Statice is a great summertime filler. Pacific Mix offers white statice with yellow centers. A second hue available in the mix is a statice with ivory petals mixed with yellow centers. A third shade is a bright yellow.
Statice also works great as a dried flower that keeps its color.
Yellow Flower Hues
Of course, this is not a list of ALL the yellow flowers available for the month of August and the summer season. It does encompass a collection of flowers that were in bloom at the same time for my cut flower garden during the mid-summer season.
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