Red poppies in October mean you're planting for spring color—these grow as cool-season transplants and will flower before the heat arrives. Champagne Bubbles stays low and bushy, holding plenty of silky petals on each stem.

Give them good drainage and sunlight, and they'll repay you with blooms from late winter into early summer. Once heat settles in, they'll fade, but by then you'll have had months of color from a single planting.