Whether wild or garden, red flowers add incredible beauty to the environment. Most symbolize love and passion, but they also bear other symbolic meanings. They can send a message of courage, respect, and desire. Some red flowers like camellia represent death.
Red is a warm color that completes the beauty of any landscape. The following are some of the most beautiful red blooms.
Petunias
Petunias are annuals that flaunt gorgeous funnel-shaped blooms in spring, summer, and fall. They are native to South America. Old plants require deadheading to keep their flowers coming. The newer ones do not necessarily need deadheading, but better flowers could help.
Gladiolus
It is a flowering bulbnative to Europe and South Africa, and it displays lovely blooms from June through frost. The flowers come in many shades, including red. It is toxic to pets, livestock, and people.
Dianthus
Dianthus in bloom
Dianthus flaunts showy bluish-grey foliage that makes the plant attractive even without flowers. It has narrow grass-like leaves. It is native to Asia, Africa, and Europe. The plant displays red, white, pink, or lilac blooms in spring, summer, and fall, which is toxic to pets.
Verbena
The annual verbena blooms in mid-summer if you start it indoors in spring. It is native to Europe and thrives best in zones 9 to 10 USDA. It bears red, pink, peach, white, or purple blooms in spring, summer, and fall.
Hardy Hibiscus
It is an herbaceous perennialnative to Missouri, North America. It produces lovely red, blue, pink, and white flowers that attract dragonflies, butterflies, and hummingbirds in summer.
Red Colored Flowers infographic
Dark Red Flowers
Red flowers may come in various shades, from light, cherry-red, scarlet-red to dark red. Dark red flowers are an ideal addition to the environment, whether in landscape or as wildflowers. If you are looking for dark red blooms for your garden, you have several options: climbers, houseplants, or all-year-round bloomers. If you want to attract pollinators like hummingbirds, butterflies, or birds, dark red flowers are a perfect choice.
Black Baccara rose is the darkest rose variety. Its dark red petals, almost qualifying as black rose, which contrast nicely with the glossy dark green foliage. The combinations of these two colors create an attractive tall rose bush. It is a popular choice for cut flower arrangements.
The shrub grows about 3 to 6 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide
It thrives in moist, well-drained acidic, neutral, or alkaline clay, loam, sand, or chalky soil
It performs best in full sun exposure
Under the right conditions, it blossoms in spring, summer, and fall
It requires average maintenance and moderate watering
The showy flowers attract butterflies
Big Red Flowers
When gazing upon your garden or the immediate wild surrounding, the big red flowers add an outstanding beauty. Large red blooms are a perfect combination for any bouquet arrangement, from the long amaranth flower to the tall canna lilies.
The following are some fantastic big red flowers and their preferred growing conditions.
Love lies bleeding (Amaranth)
Love lies bleeding (Amaranth)
Love lies bleeding is a striking annual popular for its long tassel-shaped small crimson red flowers. The lovely blooms contrast with the vast oval light green leaves, 25 cm long. It displays a bushy upright growing habit and grows as a biennial in some regions.
It loves moist, well-drained soil with a neutral, acidic, or alkaline pH
A mature Amaranthus is 3 to 9 feet tall and 1 to 3 feet wide
It appreciates full sun exposure
It blooms in fall and summer under the right conditions
It is drought-resistant and attracts birds
It is native to Africa, Peru, and India
Fuchsia fulgens
It is an annual shrub that bears bright red teardrop-shaped flowers that dangle from trailing stems. They can thrive in shady spots where most plants cannot. The elegantly drooping blooms make fuchsias perfect for hanging baskets. They appreciate consistently warm conditions as they are sensitive to cold.
A mature fuchsia can be about 1 to 2 feet in height and width
It appreciates moist, well-drained soil with a neutral to acidic pH and rich in organic matter
It performs best in hardiness zone 10 through 11
It does best in partial to full shade. It can appreciate some indirect light.
It boasts lovely blooms in shades of red, pink, white, violet, and purple
Fuchsia fulgen is native to the Caribbean, South America
Lupine/ Bluebonnet (Lupinus x hybrida)
Lupine Bluebonnet (Lupinus x hybrida)
The shape and size of tall lupine hybrids create the most attractive site in the landscape. It is fast-growing and available in perennial and annual varieties. It has foliage resembling a palm leaf, each having seven to ten leaflet segments. The plant cutting is best grown in spring, while seeds need to be grown in late spring or fall.
They appreciate rich, well-drained soil with acidic or neutral pH and uniform moisture
A mature lupine plant is 3 to 4 feet tall and 1 to 1.5 feet wide
They love full sun exposure; at least 6 hours of direct sunlight a day is perfect
It produces red, yellow, white, pink, purple, blue, or bicolor blooms in spring and summer
The parent varieties are native to North America
They are toxic to animals and humans
Canna Lilies (Canna spp.)
A canna lily is an easy-to-grow perennial plant in tropical and sub-tropical regions. They can grow as annuals in colder climatic zones. They have broad leaves that resemble banana leaves in shades of bronze, green or multicolor patterns.
Most varieties grow as tall as 6 feet, with a few exceptions that reach 8 feet tall and spread about 6 feet
It performs best in rich, acidic (6.0 to 6.5 pH) soil with a uniform moisture
It produces blooms of various colors, including red in summer
It requires full sun exposure to develop vibrant flowers and leaves, but it can tolerate partial shade
Cannas are native to Central America, South America, Mexico, the West Indies, and the southern United States
Dahlia is a perennial flowering plant native to Central America and Mexico. It consists of many varieties that bear varying flower sizes. Some species produce giant round flowers of up to 15 inches across or the size of a dinner plate. The blooms also vary in red, yellow, pink, purple, orange, and white colors.
It grows about 1 to 6 feet tall and 1 to 3 feet wide
It prefers well-drained loamy soil with a neutral or acidic pH
It requires at least 6 to 8 hours of full sun a day to produce flowers in abundance
It blooms in summer and fall
It is toxic to dogs and cats
Can You Eat Amaranth Flower?
Amaranth is one of the most nutritious flowering plants and you can eat several of its parts. The leaves, stalks, stems, blooms, and seeds of this plant are all food. The leaves resemble spinach and can be eaten similarly to spinach.
The red amaranth has tougher leaves and stalks than spinach, requiring more time to cook. It loses most of its red pigment and becomes green. The seeds of amaranth are eaten as cereals, but some people grind them to produce baking flour. The plant is only slightly toxic to animals, especially if they try the greens first.
Red Annual Flowers
Flowering annuals are fast-growers that spruce the landscape with beauty within a short time. They complete a life cycle within one growing season and do not return another year. Below are some annual red flowers.
Common name
Scientific name
Facts
Scarlet sage
Salvia splendens
Scarlet sage is a Mexican native annual that can bloom throughout if the weather is constantly warm. Indoor varieties can bloom in winter if grown in a greenhouse.
Geraniums
Pelargonium
Geraniums thrive best in zones 10 to 11 though they can perform in zone 7 with care. They are native to easternNorth America. They start blooming in spring and can extend to fall.
Zinnia Elegans
Zinnia
Zinnias are native to America and commonly grow in Mexico, southwestern U.S, and central America. They start flowering in late spring to the first frost in fall.
Sunsatia Banana
Nemesia
They are native to South Africa, where they grow in the disturbed areas. They blossom from late spring to the first frost.
Touch-me-not
Impatiens
They are native to the tropics of Asia. It blooms in spring and summer.
Zinnia flowers
Red Perennial Flowers
Perennial plants grow for over two years, meaning they have a dormant period before starting another life cycle. The following are some long flowering red perennials and tall red perennials.
Peony (Paeonia)
Fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica)
Christmas rose (Helleborus)
Rose flower (rosa)
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
The red Rose is possible the most popular red flower of all.
Tiny Red Flowers
Verbena plant consists of over 250 species of annual and perennial flowers. The red verbena (Verbena peruviana) is an ideal groundcover that produces tiny brilliant red blooms all summer. These blooms attract butterflies and hummingbirds with their brightness, and they are rabbit and deer resistant.
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