Sounds great!
Thanks to all you folks planting orange, I'm making the transition away from so much pink (LOL)
Seriously, I have California poppies(winter sown,BTW) among my vegetables with purple basil. Every time I step into the garden, I say,"wow, what brightness and cheer!"
In the dead of winter when all is white+cold, I can have that orange color warming my soul!

If you plant some bright-stemmed dogwoods, such as Cornus sanguinea 'Midwinter Fire', you can have bright orange even in winter!

I used to be negative about orange in the garden, too. What's up with that? I think this attitude was influenced by Martha S, who I still love and respect... don't get me wrong... I read somewhere that she didn't allow red in her gardens, either.
Boy, it opened up a whole new world for me when I started adding orange and red. Cosmic cosmos, crocosmia, red daylilies, 'David Verity' cuphea, red 'Jacob Cline' monarda-- they all look great. Then add a little white, lots of purple and "school bus" yellow -- Wow!
When I figure out Photobucket, I need to post some of my pictures.

I am too in love with my Cosmic Cosmos. Perfect, uniform plants just loaded with blooms and buds. I grew the Cosmic mixture, and the red is my favorite of the three colors. Next year, I plan to plant the colors separatly, as the three together in a mix bed, the three plants have different habits (yellow stays more dwarf, orange and red flower stems stick out more). I seen them planted much closer together at Missouri Botancial Garden and that looked really good as well. I spaced mine about 15 inches apart. Each plant stands out on its own.

Many people who have seen mine ask if they are Coreopsis, as the blooms look very similar, and others have thought they are Marigolds. This is my first year growing any kind of Cosmo, so I hope to see them bloom all season long! These Cosmics are among my top 10 most recommended plants!

Orange colors look brilliant next to purple.

Can't imagine mistaking them for marigolds (where my dislike of orange flowers came from, lol) they are so much brighter, imo. Guess I'm just getting to an age where I just appreciate life in general, and love flowers just for "being", I guess :) As a kid I disliked hollyhocks and poppys and now I love them.

I started some orange cosmos from seed last year and you could see them all the way from the street! Even my neighbor commented on how bright and cheery they were.

So of course I have more this year. :o) Just love them!

Tracy

I love the orange cosmos also. I grew a couple different kinds this year and all are easy from seed. I start some indoors and then sprinkle the remaining seeds around these for a later crop. I grow mine with annual coreopsis, blue and deep red cornflowers as well as calendula, orange zinnia, california poppy and even marigold. This is my hot garden which really steals the show from my perennial beds at this time of year. I think it was reading Dean Riddles "Out in the Garden" early on that kept me from being a garden color snob.

I have them growing in my yard too and I just love them!

I am growing what the seed package called orange cosmos,
but am wondering, because the foliage does not look like
the pink cosmos i have previously grown. Are there photos
somewhere of the foliage of this flower?