If you love pink, these flowers will be an ideal choice for your garden. Pink is a gentle color that can bring happiness and beauty to your backyard and garden.
Today our goal is to show you some of the most beautiful flowers that pride themselves on their pink color and which can bring your garden to uniqueness.
Whether you prefer a delicate pale pink, a deep magenta, a rosy pink, or a dazzling hot pink color you can see our selection of the most beautiful pink flowers.
Foxglove
Tall and stately foxglove plants (Digitalis purpurea) have long been included in garden areas where vertical interest and lovely flowers are desired. Foxglove flowers grow on stems that may reach 6 feet in height, depending on the variety.
Foxglove flowers are clusters of tubular-shaped blooms in colors of white, lavender, yellow, pink, red, and purple. Growing foxgloves thrive in full sun to partial shade to full shade, depending on the summer heat. They are hardy in gardening zones 4-10 and in the hottest areas prefer more midday and afternoon shade for optimum performance. The hotter the summers, the more shade the plant needs.
Foxglove plants grow best in rich, well-draining soil. Caring for foxglove plants will include keeping the soil moist. As a biennial or short-lived perennial, the gardener can encourage re-growth of foxglove flowers by not allowing the soil to dry out or to get too soggy.
Aster
Asters are daisy-like perennials with starry-shaped flower heads. They bring delightful color to the garden in late summer and autumn when many of your other summer blooms may be fading.
There are many species and varieties of asters, so the plant’s height can range from 8 inches to 8 feet, depending on the type. You can find an aster for almost any garden at garden centers in autumn!
The plant can be used in many places, such as in borders, rock gardens, or wildflower gardens. Asters also attract bees and butterflies, providing the pollinators with an important late-season supply of nectar.
Asters prefer full sun and bloom strongest in moist soil in blooms 3-10.
Bergenia
If you’ve got a shady spot you want to brighten in your garden but you’re tired and bored with hostas, then Bergenia might be just the plant you’re looking for. Bergenia, also known as pigsqueak for the sound it makes when two leaves are rubbed together, fills that shady or dappled spot in your garden where so many flowers shy away. Bergenia plant care takes very little time, as these are low-maintenance plants. Learn how to care for a bergenia plant and brighten up your shady landscape corners.
Growing Bergenia loves shade and dappled sunlight, so choose a darker corner of the yard or a bed up against the house that rarely gets full sunlight.
Plant them 12 to 18 inches apart early in the spring to fill the area without crowding them out. Choose a spot with well-drained, moist soil, and add compost to the bed as needed.
This exceptionally low-maintenance plant thrives in partial to full shade and grows best in zones 3-8.
Hardy Hibiscus
Hibiscus is a gorgeous plant that sports huge, bell-shaped flowers. Though tropical types are typically grown indoors, hardy hibiscus plants make exceptional specimens in the garden.
If you crave a taste of the tropics in the North, try growing hardy hibiscus plants. They often produce flowers of a size rare for plants that can survive cold winters. Perennials that serve as an excellent foundation planting, hibiscus are a colorful addition to a garden. They can be planted in spring or fall (as long as there is no risk of frost) and grow quickly. The showy flowers—often referred to as “dinner plate hibiscus”—feature tissue-thin, ruffled petals in blues, pinks, reds, and whites. However, they’re better suited to the landscape than to being cut and placed in a vase, where they’ll last only a day or so.
These mid-sized hibiscus shrubs light up tropical gardens with stunning hot pink flowers that feature a deep pink center. The hardy hibiscus is suitable for USDA zones 5 through 8, depending on the species.
Physostegia
Physostegia virginiana is a robust perennial wildflower with bold lance-shaped leaves. In late summer and early fall, foliage is topped by graceful lavender, pinkish or white spikey inflorescences. The individual florets are tubular and similar to snapdragons. Plants thrive in prairie type settings or sunny gardens with average well-drained soil.
Physostegia virginiana occurs through eastern North America west to Manitoba, North Dakota and Texas.
This species is indigenous to moist or mesic Blackland prairies, limestone glades, woodland edges, moist meadows, thickets, seeps and moist roadside or railroad right-of-ways.
Plants are hardy from USDA Zones 3-9.
Physostegia virginiana flourishes in sun or part sun with moist or average soil. Plants tolerate clay loam, sandy loam, gravelly soil, alkaline or acid pH, heat and some drought.
Many consider this species to be invasive. It is more likely to grow aggressively in moist rich soil. If exposure is shaded, plants are likely to flop.
Myosotis (Forget-me-not)
The true forget-me-not flower (Myosotis scorpioides) grows on tall, hairy stems which sometimes reach 2 feet in height. Charming, five-petaled, blue blooms with yellow centers explode from the stems from May through October. Flower petals are sometimes pink.
Forget-me-not plants often grow near brooks and streams and other bodies of water which offer the high humidity and moisture that is desirable to this species. The perennial forget-me-not flower spreads easily, freely self-seeding for more of the wildflower to grow and bloom in shady spots where the tiny seeds may fall. Forget-me-not flower care is minimal, as with most native wildflowers. Forget-me-not plants grow best in a damp, shady area, but can adapt to full sun.
In a garden, forget-me-nots grow best in shadier areas in zones 3-8.