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).
If you want it to last a lot longer, don’t puncture it. When you are choosing plants for your yard, don’t choose ones that finish at the same time so you can have some fall colour — sedums will bloom ...
"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 ...
You might mistake it for a sunflower thanks to its golden color and similar shape to the bloom. Yet the False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides) is a wildflower that is only distantly related to the ...