Different Pennenials

Hi All Just wondering if anyone has grown the below perennials. I have short listed so far 5 perennials but I have never grown any of them before so wondering if any one has any experiences with them?
2 are Red in colour and I need to choose just one of the red ones.
Monarda Squaw (red)

Echinacea "Hot Summer" (bergamot) (red)

Echinacea Purpurea "Elton Knight" (coneflower) (pink)

Echinacea "Mac N Cheese" (coneflower) (yellow)

Anthemis Tinctoria (dyers chamomile) (lemon/yellow)

To be honest I may choose just one of the yellow ones rather than buy both.

That is a start and now to find just a white perennial that again grows around 24" and flowers all summer.I also want to buy a hardy geranium and having read the posts it seems like Rozanne & Ann Folkard are favorite with perhaps Ann F getting the 1st place over the 2.
Thanks

 

I had Anthemis tinctoria - died. Needs plenty of sun. If you choose the yellow echinacea you will end up with a lot of echinacea, indeed a lot of daisies whichever you pick. I've always fancied having a daisy garden.

Monardas are martyrs to powdery mildew, IME. And they can look a bit untidy.

Ann Folkard is nice but has taken years to get going in my garden, though that might just be my brown thumbs. Impossible to propagate without professional methods, apparently.

I like G psilostemon, a parent of Ann Folkard. They had bushes 4 foot high and 3 foot wide of it at Alnwick garden, covered with cerise flowers. AF tends to lie down and ramble through neighbouring plants, pretty, but not very focussed. I'm not sure if I quite like the yellow shading of the leaves, it can look a bit peely-wally.

Have you thought of using a spring flowering plant to provide the white - some feverfew, for example, an extremely dapper and long flowering white biennial daisy. Then ripping it out when finished and following up with a white HHA, such as Cosmos Purity which should begin flowering soon after midsummer. If you are worried about having a crucial gap in your colour scheme why not have a tub of white pelargoniums handy? Gorgeous wherever you end up putting it.

 

I have grown the Echinacea Purpurea - very prone to snails - and they got eaten the first year and never returned - but then I do have a lot of snails that live in the overgrown next door garden and visit mine nightly to munch what they can

S