Bright colored skirts lift and fall, twirling and whirling in the summer sun.  It's a Fiesta.  Wake up a tired piece of ground with a flamboyance lacking in a subdued scene.  Dress your garden areas in different hues to suit the garden uses.  Rich color is perfect by the garden gate or street side, where the colors flash at the passing cars.

Primary colors set a party mood when red and yellow splash through the flower border.  Plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tincture) and big yellow daylilies fire up red begonias and the slender red bells of Penstemon barbatus coccineus.

Gloriosa daisies (Rudbeckia hirta) 'Maya' and 'Autumn Colors' show off gold covered heads against a background of Glory Vine (Eccremocarpus scaber) in the red and yellow Tresco Mix.

'Miss Huff' lantana covers her ample self in red and yellow.  Orange and yellow marigolds, with their ferny foliage, dance circles above Miss Huff's roots.  Yellow, red, and pink everlastings, (Helichrysum bracteatum Bright Bikini Mix) are dwarf straw flowers to heat up the low ground and complete the sunnyside jamboree.  Colors like these set  the gardener's heart aflutter.  Hear the maracas?

---Posted by Anne K Moore September 3, 2007---