Orange Monkey Flower (Shelf or Bog Plant)
Monkey flowers come in different colors but they are highly variable. The yellow Monkey Flower may grow from six inches to three feet in height. It grows throughout North America but it isn’t as cold tolerant as other species. It has yellow flowers that are about 1 1/2″ in size. It grows in part to full shade in moist soil or water up to 1″ deep. Another cultivar of this plant (Richard Bish) has gold splashes on its foliage and is very striking, even when not in bloom. Both are sunny additions to your pond or water feature.
Yellow Monkey Flowers (bog or shelf plants)
Red Monkey Flower as in Lothian Fire, is not very tall but its flowers are impressive! Bright red trumpets with yellow throats accented with small green leaves make this an exciting plant to see and own! Absolutely beautiful when streaming down a stream or waterfall. It does best in moving water. Grows 12″ high and has a 12″ spread.
Multi-Color Monkey Flowers
Lavender Blue Monkey Flower, Mimulus Ringens, grows freely throughout much of North America and to Georgia and Texas. It’s flowers are such a lovely lavender color ranging from dark purple to almost white, and blooms profusely. Its shiny green leaves are unstalked and rather toothed. It can grow in water up to 6″ deep, can grow up to 20″ tall.
Even though the monkey flower has a funny name, it can add some real excitement to an area of your pond.
Monkey Flower, "Short pink Monkey Flower in stream
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These have faces even more pretty than snap dragons.
nice pond. Some geomats may be used at the water sides to prevent sliding, protect the banks
These plants are readily available in much of the western United States but I have lived here in Florida for3 years and nobody has them? They do grow here as I special order them by internet each year. They are also easy to grow from seed. –Joe
My aunt has these in her water garden on the shelf. The blue variety. They are great bloomers all year and they come back. I would love to find the red or orange ones.
Jen M.
Those are the cutest little flowers. I looked online but all I can find are mixed seeds and a couple colors. Are they more difficult to grow?
They seem easy enough to grow from seed. I am looking for more varieties of seed insead of a mix. I am finding many more species available if you know where to look.
- Zac