12 Beautiful Southern Flowers to Fill Your Yard with Brilliant Blooms

Because they bloom from fall until spring, camellias provide color and life to the garden when most other flowering shrubs and blooms are dormant. It is an evergreen bush that does best in mild climates.

Climbing roses are a type of fragrant flowering vine that usually has fairly large blooms and are ideal for growing on walls, trellises, pillars, and arches. They lend a sense of height to a garden's visual effect, as well as an abundance of color.

Texas's famous bluebonnets germinate in the fall and bloom brilliantly around March to mid-May. This species is native to Texas, along with several states in Mexico.

The foamflower is a perennial ground-cover plant native to the eastern United States that thrives in the shade, making it the ideal option for a spot in the garden that is more tree-heavy.

Native to the United States, the beautiful dogwood tree (the Cornus florida is the genus found in the South) grows as far south as Florida, and its coveted blooms are actually bracts—leaves that just resemble flowers.

Oakleaf hydrangea is a species that thrives most in the Southeast region of the United States. The dark green leaves begin to come alive in the spring, before its large blooms emerge, and they can grow up to 12 inches wide.

The hibiscus flower is known for its showy, bell-shaped bloom, and it does best in warm climates. Its flower comes in many shades— white, red, pink, and yellow—and it is often cultivated for its medical purposes.

This ladylike flower is a genus of the coffee family of plants—the Rubiaceae. It is native to Africa, Australia, Asia, Madagascar, and the Pacific Islands, but this evergreen shrub does well in the Southern region because of the warmer climate.

It flowers during the summer months and can withstand heat and humidity, making the crepe myrtle the ideal choice for a section of the garden that needs height and soft blooms during the South's hottest months.

Lauded in Williams Wordsworth's famous poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, the daffodil blooms in the spring and is a part of the amaryllis family. Its trumpet-like flowers are a cheerful addition to any garden bed.

The best time of year to plant an azalea bush is in the late spring or early fall. This rhododendron evergreen bush can take partial shade but shows off its flowers' riotous colors best in full sun.

Magnolia trees are evergreens that spread as they grow. The deciduous plant grows most in full sun or partial shade and produces its blooms in the spring, while the cone-like fruit comes in early autumn.