I'm surprised to here that yellow flowers are unpopular, as flower color goes. My favorite color in plants, has always been "soft yellow"... I'm a sucker for it. I like bright golden yellow too, but it's those luminous soft yellow tones that really get me... as in the famous Coreopsis virticillata 'Moonbeam'. My favorite "soft" yellow flowered bulbs: 1. Allium flavum ssp. tauricum It's interesting to start with the July-flowering Allium flavum, with it's showers of little yellow bells, but ssp. tauricum is infinitely variable and deviates from the pure yellow theme into softer pastel tones... typically light yellow suffused with another color. Of the vast array of colors that I've selected in my gardens over the past decade and a half, I do love one called 'Lemon Coolor'... a luminous ultra-pale lemon yellow. There are two photos of this beauty at: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… 2. Nothoscordum montividense This is a charming, thread-leaf miniature species, with oodles of tiny yellow, sweetly scented "star-cups" on stems 2"-6" tall (5 - 15 cm). http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… 3. Narcissus 'Pipit' This very late blooming Narcissus has an abundance of ethereal pale yellow and white flowers, along with a strong perfume. I keep planting more bulbs of this every year. http://plantbuzz.com/Alpine-L/ATOW/… it.htm 4. Crocus chrysanthus 'Advance' Along with this cultivar and other forms of C. "chrysanthus", they are pure delight for admirers of crocus. The cultivar 'Advance' is enchanting... a gracious soft yellow flower, deeper colored at the center, but palest lilac on the three outer tepals. The pastel combination of pale yellow and lilac is hard to resist. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… 5. Tulipa batalinii 'Bronze Charm' This is a most elegant dwarf Tulip species, with lily-flowered blooms in pure creamy yellow delicately tinged with bronzy tones. All forms of batalinii are fantastic, but I do admire the recurved lily-like blooms on this diminutive tulipa selection. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Mark McDonough Pepperell, Massachusetts, United States antennaria@aol.com "New England" USDA Zone 5 ============================================== >> web site under construction - http://www.plantbuzz.com/ << alliums, bulbs, penstemons, hardy hibiscus, western american alpines, iris, plants of all types!
