(1) Plant several poppies as your tall center flowers, then add colorful snapdragons or blue salvia , candytuft, pansies, and sweet alyssum or Dusty Miller to fill out your container.(2) The golden centers of the aster flowers are repeated in the color of the Mexican Marigold-Mint, and spike flowers of salvia make wonderful cut flowers and garden displays.(3) Fill containers with herbs, such as oregano, trailing rosemary, salvias , or thyme.(4) Replace fading cool-season annuals with heat lovers like celosias, dahlias, marigolds, petunias, salvias , and verbenas.(5) Bright red salvias , phlox, anthurium and balsam flower in profusion in neat rows, and no wonder Thangam won the first prize for her garden.
