I am very fond of A. 'Feuerland' (Fireland). It spreads, but slowly--not like the red/pink varieties that are galloping Gerties. It starts out a rusty red and fades to gold--very handsome interplanted in a large bed with daylilies that are rusty red with a gold throat and backed by the lavender blue Agastache 'Blue Fortune'.

I had Achillea 'Terracotta' for a number of years--starts out peach and fades to buff, but got tired of it and just removed it. For many years it was paired with a lovely lily in the same peach tones, but the voles did in the lily and the whole thing lost its appeal to me.

I fell in love with Achilleas this year. I had never grown them, but had a hot, dry, difficult area that needed something, so when I came across some 'Summer Pastels' cheap, I thought I would give them a try. Boy am I happy I bought them.

I don't remember the exact order of the change in color succession, but I think the flowers changed from dark red to gold to paler yellow and finally peach. With new blooms developing constantly, all these colors appeared at the same time on all the plants. The plants were in flower from late June until about a week ago when I finally chopped off the last of the flowers.

I don't know how well behaved these are going to be because they really didn't expand outward much this first year. Quite frankly, I hope they take over the bed they're planted in. Otherwise I'm going to need to buy more of them next year.

Kevin

Thank you both. I'm loving the pinky, yellowy, goldy, terracotta colors!

kevin, I bumped a thread of yours a while back but can't remember which one now...pretty sure I was asking how a certain plant of yours was doing..maybe LOL