What a Great Day! My friend gave me two wonderful perennials to plant now in early October for glorious color in next year’s garden. She gave me some of the blue Mealycup Salvia and the yellow Stella d’Oro plants from the following bed. I am thrilled.

Blue Violet and Golden Yellow are complementary colors, and I always plant those two colors beside each other.  But I love lavendar blue planted with reds.

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

I am planting more of the bachelor button and red poppies 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

Mealycup Sage planted with pink in my friend’s planter

I can’t think of a color that I do not love to grow next to violet blue. I’ll look forward to next fall when my friend needs to thin her salvia again. I can’t get enough of that useful perennial.