If you want late summer and fall color this plant is for you and Hummingbirds just love the tubular flowers in any shade of red. This is not really a tidy plant and it fits better into informal and wildlife gardens. In my front yard which has a very natural desert look. I grow Zauschneria arizonica that has an upright growth habit to 3 ft. and bright orange flowers, it freely self seeds itself all over the yard. It has a rather spindly appearance because it gets little to none additional watering and I never fertilized it, but it still blooms and attracts its fair share of Hummingbirds. In my backyard I have a big stand of Z. californica growing to 2 ft. tall and 6 ft. wide, blooming in abundance as it gets additional irrigation. I guess the 10 ft. tall spineless opuntia growing behind it has tapped into the same source, but it makes a great impression. This corner of my yard is lit up with the bright scarlet flowers. It has self seeded itself into another corner of my yard and guess where, on the foot of another tall spineless cactus. There I grow another one of the same specie, Z. sepentrionalio. This one is low growing and has silvery foliage and bright orange flowers. These plants will light up your yard and provide color till frost.