24 Pink Flowers to Add Dainty or Bold Beauty to Your Garden (2024)

Pink flowers can add a bold or delicate touch to the garden, depending on which pink shade you use in your landscape. Use light pink flowers for an airy feel or bright pink flowers that pop against a green background. Browse our favorite pink flowering plants, from climbers to hedges, to add blush, rose, magenta, or any other pink hues that catch your eye to your garden.

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Rose Thrift

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Perfect for your rock garden or along the edge of a bed or border, rose thrift adds a punch of pink flowers atop a grassy mound of foliage. The delicate foliage and small flowers are also a great addition to a fairy garden.

Name: Armeria maritima 'Rosea'

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and well-drained soil

Size: 6-8 inches tall and wide

Zones: 3-9

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'Alice du Pont' Mandevilla

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Soften your pergola or trellis with mandevilla, a heat-loving tropical vine that offers charming pink flowers all summer long. These flowering vines are low-maintenance and fast-growing. They are usually grown as an annual plant in colder climates.

Name: 'Alice du Pont' Mandevilla

Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil

Size: Climbs up to 20 feet tall

Zones: 10-11

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'Ann Folkard' Geranium

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A great companion for coralbells and lungwort, 'Ann Folkard' geranium weaves its chartreuse foliage through other flowers. This particular cultivar blooms in magenta pink.

Name: Geranium 'Ann Folkard'

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and well-drained soil

Size: 12-24 inches tall, 24-30 inches wide

Zones: 5-9

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'Catherine Woodbury' Daylily

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Add fragrance and beauty to your garden with no-fuss, pink-blooming 'Catherine Woodbury' daylily. One of the easiest perennials you can grow, it's sure to be a garden showstopper in early to midsummer.

Name: Hemerocallis 'Catherine Woodbury'

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and well-drained soil

Size: 3 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Raspberry Wine' Bee Balm

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Attract butterflies and hummingbirds with bee balm's sweet fragrance. 'Raspberry Wine' offers beautiful rose-red flowers and good disease resistance.

Name: Monarda 'Raspberry Wine'

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and well-drained soil

Size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Giles Van Hees' Veronica

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Ideal for small gardens, 'Giles Van Hees' is a compact Veronica that's resistant to deer. This variety attracts hummingbirds and butterflies with its bright pink flowers.

'Appleblossom' Yarrow

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'Appleblossom' yarrow is a garden favorite with its soft pink flowers that float above feathery, gray-green leaves. This yarrow variety is a great addition to a cottage garden, and it's perfect for cutting and drying.

Name: Achillea 'Appleblossom'

Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil

Size: 24 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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Hollyhock

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Hollyhocks have been garden favorites for generations. And what's not to love about their towering spikes of hibiscus-shaped flowers? The pink-flowering types are particularly fun in the garden as they blend well with everything.

Name: Alcea rosea

Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil

Size: 3-8 feet tall and 1-3 feet wide

Zones: 3-8

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'Party Dress' Anemone

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A striking addition to the garden, 'Party Dress' anemone pushes out big double pink blooms in autumn—a time when most gardens could use an extra shot of color. They're also excellent cut flowers for a fall bouquet.

Name: Anemone 'Party Dress'

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and well-drained soil

Size: 36 inches tall and wide

Zones: 4-8

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'Pumila' Astilbe

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A compact astilbe variety perfect for small spaces, 'Pumila' also offers great pink flower power. The fragrant blooms make it a garden superstar, and it's deer-resistant.

Name: Astilbe 'Pumila'

Growing Conditions: Part sun to shade and well-drained soil

Size: 12 inches tall

Zones: 4-8

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Fuchsia

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Generally planted as an annual, fuchsias add a touch of elegance to your garden with their draping, lantern-like flowers. There are lots of varieties to choose from, and come in shades of pink ranging from very deep, almost red to very light pink. Plant fuchsia in hanging baskets or containers to give your garden an extra pop of color.

Name: Fuchsia spp.

Growing Conditions: Full sun to shade and well-drained soil

Size: 24-30 inches tall and wide

Zones: 8-10

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Carefree Beauty Rose

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Bred by the late Dr. Griffith Buck of Iowa State University, this wonderful shrub rose offers fragrant semidouble pink flowers all summer and fall. It has excellent disease resistance. Try planting it with burgundy foliage such as Diabolo ninebark or 'Velvet Cloak' smokebush.

Name: Carefree Beauty Rosa

Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil

Allium

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The perfect plant to celebrate spring in the rock garden, Allium oreophilum grows low and produces pretty pink flowers. The whimsical, round blooms of allium are a great way to add height and unexpected color to the back of a flower bed.

Name: Allium oreophilum

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade, and well-drained soil

Size: 4 inches tall

Zones: 4-7

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Sugar Tip Rose of Sharon

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Rose of Sharon brings tropical flair to the garden with its continuous supply of pink flowers. This standout hibiscus selection also offers variegated foliage! Use it as a focal point in the garden or as a privacy hedge.

Name: Sugar Tip Hibiscus syriacus

Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and well-drained soil

Size: To 8 feet tall, 6 feet wide

Zones: 5-8

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Peony

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Few flowers are as opulent as a blowsy pink peony. This carefree plant blooms in late spring, and most varieties waft a delightful fragrance. You can dry the flowers for crafts, too.

Name: Paeonia selections

Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil

Size: 4 feet tall and wide

Zones: 3-8

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'Angelique' Tulip

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Among the most beautiful of all tulips, 'Angelique' bears double flowers in a delightful shade of soft pink. It's also long-lived, in the right conditions, able to bloom for several years. Plant 'Angelique' with white daffodils for a wonderful spring treat.

Name: Tulipa 'Angelique'

Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil

Size: To 15 inches tall and 6 inches wide

Zones: 3-8

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Foxglove

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Foxgloves are majestic, low-care plants for the woodland garden. Most common varieties are biennials, meaning they grow foliage one year, bloom the next, then die. But happily, if you leave them to drop seed, new crops will spring up on their own every year.

Name: Digitalis selections

Growing Conditions: Part shade and moist, well-drained soil

Size: To 6 feet tall and 2 feet wide

Zones: 4-8

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Dianthus

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You'll sometimes see "pinks" used as another common name for dianthus, so it's no surprise this is one of our top pink flower picks. Most dianthus are fragrant, and many varieties, such as 'Firewitch,' offer stunning silvery-blue foliage.

Name: Dianthus gratianopolitanus selections

Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil

Size: To 6 inches tall and 18 inches wide.

Zones: 3-8

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Dahlia

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One of the finest summer-blooming bulbs around, dahlias produce elegant flowers perfect for cutting. Plant breeders have given us a wealth of choices—from blooms that appear in the softest pink shades to eye-popping cerise. Their size ranges from little 3-inch-wide gems to varieties with flowers more than a foot wide.

Name: Dahlia selections

Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil

Size: From 6 inches to 6 feet tall, depending on variety

Zones: Zones 8-10, but you can dig and store the tubers over winter.

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Bleeding Heart

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A gorgeous perennial for shady spots in your yard, bleeding heart offers lovely pink blooms that are heart-shaped in the bud. The blue-green foliage is a nice contrast to other plants.

Name: Dicentra spectabilis

Growing Conditions: Shade and moist, well-drained soil rich in organic matter

Size: To 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide

Zones: 3-9

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Garden Phlox

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What would the summer garden be without phlox? This perennial bears big heads of fragrant flowers in mid to late summer, often when gardens need it the most.

Name: Phlox paniculata selections

Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil

Size: 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide

Zones: 4-8

Test Garden Tip

Grow phlox where there's plenty of air circulation to prevent powdery mildew, a common disease of this flower.

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Petunia

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One of the most popular summer annuals, petunias appear in almost every color. Pink shades are perfect for cool color schemes, though—try mixing them with purple angelonia, white annual phlox, or burgundy-leaf sweet potato vine.

Name: Petunia selections

Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil

Size: To 4 feet tall and wide, depending on type

Zones: Annual

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Crabapple

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One of the first trees to put on a show in spring, crabapples keep the display going thanks to their lovely red, purple, or yellow fruits that attract birds. And many crabapple selections offer good fall color, too.

Name: Malus selections

Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil

Size: From 6 to 25 feet tall and wide, depending on variety

Zones: 3-8

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Purple Coneflower

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Whoever named this plant purple coneflower was stretching it a bit—the lovely summertime blooms are definitely more on the pink (or mauve) side. Regardless, it's a wonderful choice for the garden as it offers a ton of flowers, attracts butterflies, and holds up well to heat and drought.

Name: Echinacea purpurea

Growing Conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil

Size: To 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide

Zones: 3-9