These should be taller, with a striking shape. I love oranges, reds, and red-violets, and I went with Canna lilies, marigolds, and heliopsis (false sunflowers, though the real deal would work, too).
"Lots of coneflowers, blanket flowers, coreopsis, black-eyed Susans, along with previously planted blue lobelia, Joe Pye weed, milkweed, heliopsis, and more," they wrote. "There's also a redbud tree ...