Creating a Yellow Perennial Garden in Minneapolis

For a sunny Minneapolis garden (Zone 4), easy, eye-catching yellow perennials:

• Coreopsis – easy from seed, blooms first year if started early.
• Black-eyed Susan – very hardy, self-seeds, available as seed or plants.
• Yellow daylilies ('Stella de Oro' reblooms all summer) – buy as plants.
• Yellow Asiatic/Oriental lilies – plant bulbs in fall or spring.
• Yellow iris – plant rhizomes.
• Achillea (yarrow) – long-blooming, bright yellow.
• Evening primrose – prolific, low-growing.
• Sedum – tough, low, late-season color.

Lilies from seed take 2–3 years to bloom; buy bulbs. Daffodils, hyacinths, crocus provide early spring yellow. Start coreopsis and black-eyed Susan from seed now or buy plants. Visit local nurseries or order online.