| Even the exceptions — gaillardia, sunflower — can be successful if the site is right and if they are planted early enough. |
| These include the planting in prepared beds of annuals such as globe amaranth, portulaca, sunflower, cosmos, Gloriosa daisy, coreopsis and gaillardia. |
| There are the usual gomphrena, gaillardia, kochia, portulaca, zinnia, amaranthus, balsam and sunflower. |
| Among seeds that need light to germinate are ageratum, California poppy, gaillardia, coleus, columbine, love-in-a-mist, snapdragon, Shasta daisy, strawflower, sweet alyssum and sweet rocket. |
| Gaillardia aristata 'Arizona Sun' is an outstanding new perennial variety, which will produce a profusion of large striking flowers in the first year of sowing. |
| The ferny stems can provide a wispy lime-green backdrop to mounded flowers like lavatera and gaillardia, or an airy foreground to the broad, glossy leaves of holly bushes. |
