Unless otherwise noted, preferred flower colors are vivid (not cool-tone pastels or pinks). Fuchsia is excepted from the no pink rule of thumb.
- Agastache
--- 'Apricot Sprite'
--- 'Tango'
--- 'Sangria'
- Angelica (esp. purple varieties)
- Bronze Fennels
- Baptisia
- Cleome - 'Violet Queen'
- Cosmidium/Thelesperma
- Cosmos with a darker magenta color component to them
--- 'Sonata Purple Shades'
--- 'Versailles Red'
--- 'Xsenia'
--- 'Cosimo Purple Red-White'
- Calendulas (anything but plain orange)
- Dutchman's pipevine - Aristolochia macrophylla
- Elderberry (Sambucus) 'Black Lace'
- Flax (Linum)
--- L. perenne 'Saphyr Blue'
--- L. flavum compactum 'Compact Golden'
- Gaura lindheimeri
- Goldenrods (Sidalgo) especially named varieties
- Hardy passionflowers like Maypop
- Hardy kiwi
- Ipomoeas (ideally yellows, orange, true red, dark blues esp. picotees like India Star)
- Phloxes
- Pussytoes (Antennaria)
- Purple Basils
- Salvias
- Larkspurs
- Lupines
- Lobelias
- Lavenders
- Monarda citriodora hyb. 'Bergamo'
- Nicotiana (darker the better!)
- Obedient plant, white cultivar preferred but will take any
- Peppers
--- Black cobra
--- Aji types
--- Caribbean seasoning varieties
- Rock Cress (Aubrietta) 'Cascade Red'
- Signet marigolds, esp. with red
- Turkish/Jerusalem Sage (Phlomis)
- Yarrow (Achillea)
--- 'Colorado Mix'
- Cultivars of native plants including grasses
