Common Yellow Shrubs

Types

• Most forsythias bloom yellow, but some cultivars, such as Gold Leaf, also possess bright yellow leaves. The Bronx greenstem forsythia (Forsythia viridissima "Bronxensis") has yellow-green fall foliage and yellow spring flowers. Types of Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii), including the Aurea and Bogozam hybrids, produce yellow leaves and flowers. Other shrubs with yellow as a theme in flowers or foliage are Saint-John's-wort, witch hazel and many kinds of shrub roses.

Size

• Yellow shrubs coming in a variety of sizes are available to landscapers. For example, Tatarian dogwood (Cornus alba), with yellow-green leaves, grows to 8 feet, but cultivars such as Bud's Yellow and Spaethii, featuring yellow leaves, mature to 6 feet and 5 feet, respectively. Alpine currant (Ripes alpinum), with yellow blossoms and fall foliage, stays between 3 and 6 feet tall, as does the common cultivar Aureum, with its yellow leaves.

Uses

• Yellow shrubs brighten up a landscape with their color, notes the University of Connecticut Plant Database. They are suitable for creating screens and hedges, for mass plantings, shrub borders and specimen plants and as foundation plants, depending upon the species.