Thanks all for the comments, I realise now that this was not meeting the challenge as put out there. The real pain is the fact that I had a few other photos from the same day which would have met the challenge much better, oh well yo live and learn.
The photo was taken at the yearly Bowral Tulip festival in Australia. It wasn't set up (not by me at least) there were a few beds of flowers which had a rogue colour amongst them. Onward and upward to the next challenge.
This is my highest rated picture from those I felt didn't quite emphasize complimentary colors. There is green in there but the focus in clearly on the juxtaposition of the red bulb to white bulbs. Beautiful composition.
The foreground flowers have a nice sharp feel and the ones in background are blurred just the right amount,. Would have liked to see the top area with the big white clump cropped out of the image. Overall this is very good and should makle the top ten if not the top 5. Congrats.