Annuals For Warm Season Color

	Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana alata) Trumpet-shaped, fragrant flowers in shades of red, white, pink, yellow or green. Flowers during late spring through summer. Good cut flower. It may be massed in flower beds and borders where its medium-tall height combines well with other part-sun plants. Grows best with morning/early afternoon sun. Pick off spent blooms to encourage flower production.
	Flowering Tobacco "Only the Lonely" (Nicotiana sylvestris) The tallest, largest flowering tobacco that should be given room in the back of beds or in a space by itself. By mid-summer, stalks as thick as your finger shoot up 4 to 4-1/2 feet with enormous clusters of pendulous white blooms. These 4-inch trumpets have an inviting evening scent. rows best with morning/early afternoon sun.
	Globe Amaranth (Gomphrena globosa) Sometimes called "Bachelor Buttons". Long-lasting, button-like flowers in shades of red, pink, cream, purple, or occasionally, orange. Blooms from spring to frost. Useful as an edging, en mass or in containers. Good for fresh cut and dried flowers. An easy, pest free plant that does well in poor, dry soil.