11 Gorgeous Flowers that Start with G + Growing Guide Charts

It’s grand to grow gorgeous, glorious blooms that glorify my garden. They greet the gardener with glowing grandeur and guide good bugs to generous gifts of nectar. It’s gladdening to gaze at their grace and grounding goodness.

I’ve been going crazy over my most gregarious garden goodies, gawking at my favorite flowers in alphabetical order. It’s time to get a gander at the letter G!

1. Geranium (Geranium albanum)

Also known as the Albanian cranesbill, this form of geranium is a fast-spreading ground cover that produces delicate pink and mauve blossoms. It rarely reaches more than a foot high, preferring to sprawl out abundantly along the ground instead.

This growth habit makes it a good choice for rock gardens and at the edges of garden beds, where it will tumble playfully among the stones.

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2. Globe Flower (Trollius europaeus)

The globe flower lives up to its name with plump, spherical flowers in vivacious shades of lemony yellow. They’re a bog blossom, thriving in damp low fertility soils that may prove challenging for other flowering plants.

It’s also a perennial with the ability to tough out sub-zero temperatures. As a result, they can be a real lifesaver for those of us stuck with soggy soil and cold winters.

3. Globe Amaranth (Gomphrena globosa)

Globe amaranth always puts me in mind of a pom-pom, with dainty spherical flowers an inch or two across. They’re vibrantly colored, ranging from white to pink and purple. Their flowers are long-lasting and bright, popular with butterflies and bees during their astonishingly long blooming season.

They’ll often pop out fresh buds from summer right up to the first frost, though many growers cut the flowers to dry as autumn approaches. They’ll keep their vibrancy even once dried.

4. Gerbera Daisy (Gerbera jamesonii)

Gerbera daisies are a perky classic. They feature bright round flowers in any color imaginable, ranging from white and cream to deep bronzes and scarlet. The single or semi-double forms are most common, but some hybrids produce double-petalled flowers or even spindly, spidery blossoms.

Many folks grow them as an annual, but with care and a bit of warmth, they’ll perform as an annual, blooming year after year.

5. Gentian Speedwell (Veronica gentianoides)

Sometimes called veronica, gentian Speedwell produces elegant spires flecked with many small flowers in shades of white, blue, or purple. Their nodding displays make them quintessential cottage garden residents.

It’s an excellent all-rounder that attracts useful insects like pollinating butterflies and bees and provides valuable nectar for hummingbirds almost all the way to winter.

6. Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata)

Few American wildflowers are as charming as phlox. While it takes a bit more effort to grow than other natives, phlox outshines with thick heads of bright mauve flowers that are low-maintenance and deer resistant.

It’s increasingly popular, and while the original plant is purple, newer cultivars sport white, red, or even multicolored flowers. No matter what you choose, be prepared for Phlox to draw migrating birds and insects into your garden.

7. Grape Hyacinth (Muscari armeniacum)

It’s rare to find a flower as brightly blue as the grape hyacinth. This is a low-growing plant, no more than six inches high, and is known for sweet spires of tightly clustered bell-shaped flowers. They’re almost like a mass of miniature bluebells, a tiny treasure that loves to hide in cool, well-shaded grottoes and glades.

If left alone they’ll self-seed aggressively, and slowly spread to cover large areas with their softly scented flowers and long glossy leaves.

8. Globe Thistle (Echinops spp.)

There are around 120 different species of globe thistle, found in Asia, Europe, and parts of tropical Africa. They’re an eye-popping plants, with spiky foliage and perfectly spherical flowers almost like dandelion seed heads.

They’re an excellent choice for xeriscape gardens, as they thrive in poor quality, sandy soils with very little water at all.

9. Godetia (Clarkia amoena)

Godetia is also evocatively known as Herald of Summer, or Farewell to Spring. Unsurprisingly, this elegant flower appears at the tail end of spring, just as the summer really starts to set in.

This pink wildflower can be found all along the California coast, where it peppers roadsides and meadows alike. Like many wildflowers, it’s a critical food source for native insects, especially rare butterflies, and bees.

10. Golden Chamomile (Cota tinctoria)

Golden by name and golden by nature, the golden chamomile produces abundant displays of vividly yellow flowers through the tail end of summer.

The rich hue is so vibrant that the blossoms are a traditional ingredient for a bright yellow dye used to color cloth. These days it’s more commonly used to bring its glorious luster to cottage gardens.

11. Golden Dew Drop (Duranta erecta)

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a faster and more vigorous grower than the golden dew drop. It forms a hardy shrub that can be cut to the ground and spring back, good as new, in a single season.

It produces loose clusters of purple blossoms ringed in white, scattered over the whole body of the plant. The name comes from the plant’s tiny golden fruit, no larger than a sequin, perfectly round and dewy. Be warned – while birds love them, they’ve been known to kill anything else who eats them.

Final thoughts

Graceful and gracious g flowers give goodness to gardeners and glee to gardens. I’m gladdened by their generosity and gentleness. Get going and gaze at the gorgeous gaiety guaranteed to grow.