5 Cleomes with pink flowers you should have in your garden
The most beautiful varieties
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Cleomes, also known as spider flowers or Cleome spinosa in Latin, are splendid annuals with white, pink or purple flowers. Particularly graceful, they bloom throughout the summer and offer delicate, airy flowers. They have four petals and long, decorative stamens. They also bear attractive, palmately divided foliage. They are also prized for adding volume to borders. In the garden, pink flowers fit perfectly into romantic gardens, as well as cottage gardens and colourful borders, for example in combination with orange flowers. With its distinctive silhouette, the cleome can even find a place in exotic-style gardens. We present to you the five most beautiful pink-flowered cleome varieties.
Do not hesitate to consult our complete fact sheet to learn all about their cultivation: “Cleome, spider flower: sowing, planting, cultivation”
Discover also our advice sheet: “Pairing pink flowers”
Cleome 'Senorita Rosalita'
The Cleome ‘Senorita Rosalita’ is a very handsome variety with flowers ranging from pale pink to mauve, which reaches a height of between 70 and 90 cm. It is a vigorous, well-branched variety, forming a dense clump. It flowers from July through September. It bears finely divided leaves, crowned by its delicate inflorescences. These consist of pink flowers tinged with pale purple, lilac and mauve. With good sturdiness, it withstands inclement weather fairly well. It is a sterile variety that does not produce seeds, and whose stems are neither thorny nor sticky. It is also available in a white version: ‘Senorita Blanca’, with which it will pair very well indeed.
With its delicate nuances, this cleome will blend beautifully into a cottage garden, with flowering in shades of blue, mauve, pink and white. Pair it, for example, with hardy geraniums, such as the very popular ‘Rozanne’, as well as Cosmos ‘Sonata White’, Salvia pratensis, Buenos Aires verbena and Gauras.
Cleome 'Sparkler Blush'
Cleome ‘Sparkler Blush’ blooms from July to October and is distinguished by its bi-coloured inflorescences, bright pink and rosy white. It is a compact variety that does not exceed 50 to 60 cm in height. It bears lobed leaves and spiny stems. Its flowers are attached to the stem by a long peduncle, and themselves bear very long stamens, giving the inflorescence a real sense of lightness. Its flower buds are a distinctly pink, and as the flowers open, they gradually fade to white. The combination of pink buds at the top of the inflorescence and the open flowers pale pink-white in the lower part creates a pretty gradient. This Cleome will readily adapt to growing in pots.
Offering a pretty palette of pinks, Cleome ‘Sparkler Blush’ will be perfect in a romantic garden. Pair it with Achillea ‘Apple Blossom’, with an Old-fashioned rose ‘Red Ballerina’ and with the silvery foliage of an Artemisia ‘Little Mice’. Also pair it with the Campanula ‘Loddon Anna’ and with the Ceanothus ‘Marie Simon’.
Cleome 'Sparkler Rose'
In a very different style, the Cleome ‘Sparkler Rose’ is a variety with dark pink to red flowers which bloom generously all summer, from June to September. It can reach up to 1 m in height. It is well ramified, with a good habit and does not require staking. Its stems bear large, very colourful inflorescences that attract butterflies and pollinating insects. Its deep and intense pink shade is ideal for brightening a border!
Incorporate Cleome ‘Sparkler Rose’ into a mixed border with very colourful flowering displays : yellow, orange, red, blue, purple… Think, for example, of dahlias, of Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’, of daylilies and agastaches… It can also find a place in an exotic border, notably with coppery-red foliage, such as Phormium ‘Pink Panther’ and with the pretty blooms of crocosmias and kniphophias.
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Pairing Pink FlowersCleome 'Senorita Carolina'
Cleome ‘Senorita Carolina’ is a very beautiful variety, close to ‘Senorita Rosalita’, but it bears flowers much paler, in a pale pink almost white. It forms a compact clump, bright green, thornless, and does not exceed 60 cm in height. This makes it particularly suitable for planting in a small garden or in a pot on the patio. Its flowers are very delicate, in a pale pastel pink. It is a sterile variety: it therefore does not produce seeds. Its stems are neither sticky nor thorny.
It will be ideal in a romantic garden or in a cottage garden, for example in the company of Campanula persicifolia ‘Alba’, Ceanothus ‘Marie Simon’, hardy geraniums and Phlox paniculata. You can also compose with it a garden full of sweetness, with other candy-pink blooms and fluffy foliage, notably teddy bear plants: Stachys byzantina, Lagurus ovatus, Stipa tenuifolia, Cotinus coggygria, etc.
Cleome 'Cherry Queen'
Cleome ‘Cherry Queen’ is a vigorous variety that can reach 1 metre in height. From June to October, it bears at the tips of its stems beautiful bright carmine pink flowers, with long protruding stamens. Its foliage is villous to spiny and slightly sticky.
Pair it with very colourful flowering displays, for example the orange flowers of Achillea ‘Terracotta’, Echinacea ‘Big Kahuna’ and Helenium ‘Waltraut’.
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