Not a lot of red here but the Fireball hardy hibiscuses add good late-summer color in August. There are also a few Lord Baltimore and Luna Red hibiscuses:

Oh boy, my favorite ( after apricot ) I actually love all shades of red.

Dream Catcher Dave Bang

Ingrid Bergman

Hot Cocoa perhaps my favorite

Gypsy Soul

Munstead wood

Papa Meiland

Crimson Glory

Ken, what is that thing? An ignorant Aussie here. Trish

Amadeus and Florentina at the entrance to our back yard.....

hey everyone..I like all of them!!!..

isn’t the red begonia in the corner a good example of how eye catching red looks in a garden?..

Paris heuchera and red huckleberry

Dark Desire

I’m not sure what variety this lily is.

tulips

Red is the most difficult color for cameras to capture. If they look "not that red", that's definitely my problem.

Coral bells

Tulip

Verbena

Fuchsia

Jupiter's Beard, really a terrible weed in my yard, beautiful though.

As for the rose part, I have to admit that all red double roses look alike to me. LOL. I also have Dancing in the Dark and Black Lady but can't tell which is which from the photos.

Ingrid Bergman

Miracle On The Hudson

Munstead Wood

Velvet Fragrance

Rock Star

Won Fang Yon

Maggie

Roman Holiday

Rose de Rescht

Linda Campbell

Unknown red climber. It used to grow in my old garden and this is from a rooted cutting. Vigorous and super fragrant, suckers easily.

Crimson Glory

Did you say red? My favorite--too many to post

alstromeria psittacina

red camellia

heavenly bamboo

lobelia

crocosmia

red buckeye

salvia hot lips

indian pinks

dianthus

texas star hibiscus

clematis rebecca

Most of my reds border on purple so I’ll save those for that color. Here’s my few reds:

First year Lobelia Queen Victoria. I hope it comes back.

Reddish Coleus

Bee Balm

First year Yarrow.

I’m cheating….my neighbors red rose

debra

hey debra..you forgot to post a pic of a cardinal in your garden..Lol..

Cotoneaster

Gladiolus

Hope for Humanity rose

Hope For Humanity is gorgeous!

titian1 10b Sydney since Ken has not responded Snow disc Think of it as surfing but on a hill covered with snow. Very foreign to you but every kid (and a lot of adults) in snowy areas has done this. It gets crazy fast!

Fabulous reds everyone!

Astilbe Fanal is a favorite. The pic does not do justice to how red it is. The foliage comes up bronze.

Clematis Niobe

Clematis Rouge Cardinal starts out red.

Crocosmia Lucifer is the favorite of hummingbirds here. You may have to enlarge the pic to see it.

Daylily Anzac

Crimson Pirate

Highland Lord

Pardon Me

Beautiful daylilies Peren.

Pardon Me is one of my favorites.

Thanks Kristine. You have so many gorgeous roses! I will show a couple later but I am so limited on which will grow here without extraordinary overwintering measures.

Love these reds!

Betty Boop

spider lilies

My seedling named for my grandmother, Linda Farrell

Landini lily

Those very dark lilies are so pretty. I've tried twice to plant lilies and neither time did they survive. Sigh. I see them around the neighborhood so I know it's possible, but so far, no luck in my garden.

Magpie - I find that surprising. I am not an expert at anything in the garden lol (am pretty new to it), but lilies are reliable for me! Especially the asiatics. We'll see if the orientals and orienpets I planted last year come back. Can't wait for spring.

The two I tried were Stargazer Lilies and the orange tiger lilies. I'm a failure at those, and at most clematis I've tried 😭 I'm a relatively new gardener too, this coming season will be my 4th, so I'm still learning a lot. I will probably try lilies again, hopefully one day they'll work for me.

Magpie, I wonder if voles or gophers could be the problem for your lilies. Some, I think, plant them in underground cages.

More red

Orphelline de Juillet

Annie Laurie..this looks pinkish but really it's more of a cherry red.

Louis XIV who has lived forever in a pot

Cardinal Hume

Ascot ..a favorite

Chianti

Oh that Louis is an absolute treasure. Is it fragrant?

Yes, Oursteelers, it is very fragrant and reblooms often but is prone to blackspot. Can be almost black.

Erasmus, ugh that’s a bummer, particularly since blackspot is the most prevalent disease in my area and I don’t spray

Anenome &

ranunculus

Tulips

Tulips

More anenome

Peony

Another peony

Munstead Wood

More MW

Benjamin Britten. He's more. Red in person.

So I guess I love

So I guess I love red in the garden here's more.

red in the garden here's more.red in the garden here's more. Also the Houzz Gremlins are at it again.

Rouge Royal

Tess,

Razzmatazz Dahlia

Maggie, RR, Diva Dahlia

Red Eden with a friend

Yay sunflowers

Reds on their way from High Country

Smokin Hot

Canyon Road

Never enough red

Roxanne planted last summer and already a great rose

@Kristine LeGault 8a pnw How many red roses do you have, and do you honestly find them different enough to enjoy having them all, or do you just replace your least favorite reds with new ones? My favorite rose color is pink and my first instinct when rose shopping is to go for all the lovely pinks, but I got worried that I'd have too much of the same (seen so many comments on here about "just another pink rose"). So I tried to branch out and get different colors, but honestly my favorites are still my pinks and I wish I had more of them! 😅

Does anyone have any special techniques for photographing reds and other very saturated colors? Quite often the brightest colors seem to burn the " film" in my camera...I mean, they overexpose or something. My only trick to try to get the true color is to hold something light colored beside the bloom and focus on that , then switch to the bloom. Sometimes it works. I think some cameras are just better at reds.

Magpie, you get whatever makes you smile. If it is all pink so what

There are certain colors that just speak to our hearts and that is what we are attracted to.

Actually my favorite colors are the Peach/apricots .

Reds, lets see, I have 12 with 3 more coming, but I am always on the lookout for more beautiful reds

Great idea posting to the Rose forum Ken.

Voodoo Dancer

Gaillardia Goblin

Hibiscus

Lobelia cardinalis

Monarda Cambridge Scarlet

Peony Early Scout

Henry Kelsey

Sanguisorba Tanna

Red Sunflowers

Prickly Pear Fruit. These make good jelly and the bees love the flowers.

Red (really a hot pink though lol) Nightblooming Tropical Waterlily.

DA William Shakespear 2000

Dancing Ladies Globba Ginger..this is the reddest globba flower I've ever seen anywhere! These started out as a common pink but over 10 years of them producing tubers, I got one tuber that started producing these much redder flowers. I haven't named it yet.

Hardy Hibiscus

Double Rangoon Creeper Vine aka Drunken Sailor Vine. This smells so sweet when it blooms. I walk out un the yard and usually smell it before I see it.

Midnight Hawaiian Ti plant reverting to a red stripe.

Love these waterlily pads on Miami Rose tropical waterlily. I grow these in large pots with no holes in the bottom in about 2ft of water. Very easy to take care of. My baby tree frogs love hatching out in these.

Globba aka Dancing Ladies rare red foliage. 'Sangria' (not my hybrid)

More red sunflowers

Gloriosa Vine redder than it looks lol.

Munstead Wood

Don Juan

Hurrican Lilies aka Naked Ladies..just pop up in the lawn during Hurricane season

Love the red under leaves on this Peacock Ginger Kaempferia Grande

Giant Pipevine flower next to a 5 gallon bucket

Reddish polydamas caterpillars that eat the giant pipevine and thrive on it

Giant pipevine flowers up in the tree like huge Scandalous Party Balloons lol

Tree frog seduced by Don Juan :)

erasmus_gw, I also have a hard time photographing red. It does seem if the background isn't green my camera does a better job. I'm going to try your trick of focusing on something else and then moving to the rose.

I have also noticed some of my older Moto cell phone cameras did a better job. I got a newer Moto and it did horrible so switched to my husband's old Moto phone. Recently replaced that with an older model high end Samsung which is said to have a great camera so am looking forward to trying it out in spring.

I find my rose pictures are the true test of a camera's ability. It doesn't seem to be a problem with the lenses but a software processing problem. They tune it for particular scenarios and red roses on green foliage doesn't seem to be one of them.

Rosemantic Fuschia looks more red in person.

Columbine

Poppies

Salvia

Strawberry

celosia

Gosh, these are beautiful! To me the reds are harmonious with other colors, at least in these pictures. Sultry, there really are so many neat tropical plants you grow. That giant pipe vine bloom is incredible. Love the gloriosa daisy...is it hard to grow? Markay, I like those red poppies. Are they corn poppies? I used to have some and they were true red like yours and bloomed what seemed like a long time. Don't know why they petered out. Then I bought new " corn poppy" seeds but they were orange and lasted about a day.

Those colors in the waterlily leaves are amazing. Rosemantic Fuchsia is a rose I want to try. Peren all does the lobelia cardinalis need a lot of water?

@erasmus_gw, they are definitely corn poppies.

erasmus, Thank you. The Gloriosa Lily is a tuber and they are very easy to grow. They are low growing vines (5-6 ft) with tendrils on the end of their leaves. They are hardy to zone 9a. They kinda go dormant and can be stored dry in their pots or lifted and replanted in spring. There are different varieties of Gloiosa Lilies with pink, white and/or yellow flowers. Easy to Grow Bulbs has them sometimes. I have found them at Ace Hardware Nursery on occasion as well.

erasmus_gw Lobelia cardinalis does like water but not as much as you might think. I do have moisture retentive soil but one of its favorite places to seed is my granite dust walkways. If a plant is a moisture lover I sometimes make a shallow basin and plant within that.

Thanks all for the info. Have had my eye on gloriosa lilies awhile. Used to have that orange and yellow columbine which reseeds but for some reason it petered out on me. Tried lobelia cardinalis once and it didn't last long. When you make a shallow basin do you have some kind of container underground? I think I'd like to grow waterlilies in a tub too. Do you do anything about mosquito larvae?

I am trying firecracker vine from seed this year...it is yellow tipped with red.

Librarian, don't you just love Rosematic fuschia? I can't get over how well mine did year one.

Yours is so beautiful.

erasmus_gw I simply make a shallow basin in the soil for things like Lobelia. I am on a well and do not water. It has been extremely hot & dry (it was high nineties all summer) the last couple of years and I have had no problems with the Lobelia.

For certain plants I have dug out a large hole and lined it with heavy duty plastic. I just stab the plastic with a knife or scissors once or twice before back filling and planting. I have used this method on Ornamental Rheum & Royal fern.

Mosquito prevention for standing water is what I found but have never used any of them.

Yes, @Kristine LeGault 8a pnwpnw! It's pretty fantastic!

For growing water plants in containers, you can get the mosquito dunks and break off maybe a 1/8th of a dunk and put it in the pot. If a lot of rain floats it out, you can prevent this by putting a rock in a piece of pantyhose and put the dunk piece, in with it and tie off the pantyhose. Then, it sits on the bottom of the water container and wont float out with lots of rain etc. Some people in milder climates may be able to have a few little fish to help eat the mosquitoes.

Also, if one lives in a really hot desert climate (like I used to) you can dig a hole in the ground and sink the pot halfway. This will keep it cooler. Afternoon shade will help as well.

I try to use the thicker Foam (fake stone looking) type pots. These keep the root/tuber part of the water lily cooler in a hot climate and also gives a little more frost protection as well in a cooler climate. On hot sunny days, I can reach my hand down to the bottom of the pot and feel a very noticeable difference in temperature from the top to the bottom.

I really don't grow much in terms of vibrant colors, all the Magnolias are creamy white. The exception is my collection of Crape Myrtles, which I have in RED, PURPLE, MAGENTA, CORAL, and PINK. These are 'Dynamite Red'. The nice thing about the Crapes is that they have a LONG bloom season, start in June here and can end as late as late October, and after the flowers fade, the leaves color up in shades of red, orange, yellow and pink. And speaking of leaf colors, Japanese Maple is other one that is nice for scarlet reds in the Autumn (peak red is in November here).

Here is Nandina for some more red (from a previous snowy Winter). Holly too are in the garden, and the Nelly Stevens is good for red colored berries.