By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer

Cambria Nursey tweeted that I fell in love with 'Little Penny' coreoposis when I paid them a visit recently.  And it's is quite true.  And no wonder.  The plant was completely covered with small charming copper flowers that just happen to work perfectly with the color scheme I'm playing with in my backyard at the moment -- red-oranges, yellows, blue-violets.  And `Little Penny' was as nice a compansion to my 'Paprka' yarrow, coral fountain plant, and red yucca as I'd hoped it would be.

'Little Penny' is a 2009 introduction from Terra Nova.  You can read more about it on their website.

`Mango Punch', also from Terra Nova, is technically a 2010 introduction, but there's some stock in the nurseies now.  Cambria Nursery had both coreopsis.  Here's a better look.  That's 'Little Penny' on the left; `Mango Punch' on the right.