Susan Blevins’s favorite color makers

The following flowers are annuals or tender perennials grown as annuals, unless noted.

African daisy (Arctotis hybrids). Creamy apricot and yellow.

Bachelor’s button (Centaurea cyanus). Blue. Self-sowing.

California poppy (Eschscholzia californica). Orange. Self-sowing.

Common heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens). Fragrant purple flower clusters.

Cosmos. Pink and white.

Geranium ‘Johnson’s Blue’. Perennial.

Larkspur (Consolida ajacis). Blue.

Pelargonium. Crimson.

Perennial blue flax (Linum perenne).

Petunia. Lavender, burgundy, pink.

Portulaca. Creamy yellow and peach.

Snapdragon. Pink.

Sweet alyssum. Fragrant white flower clusters.