Today, I planted a Balloon Flower in My Garden, and I Hope that This Beauty Survives the Mississippi Heat Here.

Yesterday, I wrote about Mealycup Sage, which also has blue violet blossoms. I love all the tones of violet in my garden. The violets are excellent accents  and/or backdrops for all they other flowers growing in my garden. Violet and yellow are complementary colors, and I grow many yellow flowers. During the early summer, I grow calendula and marigolds, and during the late summer, I grow black-eyed Susans and Crackerjack Marigolds.

Thanks to my birds, I grow sunflowers all summer.

There are always yellow things in my garden, but the violet-toned flowers are excellent backdrops for other flowers, too.

Violet Blue Bachelor Buttons and Red Poppies
Jacki Kellum Garden Summer of 2024

I am planting more of the bachelor button and red poppy seeds for next year’s garden, too, but I am also planting some of my blue salvia with scarlet bee balm for next year.

Scarlet Jacob Cline Bee Balm in front of violet Mexican Petunia – Jacki Kellum Garden – 2024.

Gene Boerner Pink Rose in front of trailing violet blue vebena in Jacki Kellum Garden.

Perhaps my very favorite color combo in my garden is pink and violet blue.

Pink Fairy Rose in front of Violet Blue Hyrangea
Jacki Kellum Garden

I  have read that Balloon Flower does not do well in heat, and my garden in Mississippi is a very hot place. When I see if this plant survives, I’ll write more about it. I have also read that the plant needs to be staked, and for support, I have planted my Balloon Flower next to a rose arbor.