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One of my favorites is something gray like a dusty miller near something that is a bluish purple.
My latest "favorite" is gailardia with shasta daisys behind them.
What knockout combinations do you have?
God's Warrior
I am like you with the Dusty Miller type of combinations. I like having that plant with a lot of combinations as sort of a filler. Lamb's Ear does sort fo the same thing only a little lower to the ground. In the spring here in TN one of my favorite combinations is various textures of green with lots of vibrant colored flowers. That is when nature is showing off her spring greens (new green foliage on all the plants that were dormant during the winter) of so many hues so I like to combine the vibrant colored flowers that really show off the greens. Perennials are my mainstay in the spring. Later when the greens kind of calm down, I add annuals to the mix to fill in with the various colorful perennials that will bloom from time to time in the summer. In the fall, i am back to perennials that are mostly fall bloomers.
I don't really lean toward using particular colors in the same color family for my cottage garden like some folks do. I do more of a Monet type garden and use a lot of old fashioned plants to give me a colorful mix most of the time.
Mary
One of my beds has red, orange, gold and yellow daylilies. When they are all blooming it is quite a show, and I've been thinking that shasta daisys would be nice amongst the daylilies since they are blooming at the same time in other places in my flower beds. Gardening is a slow process. My neighbor helped me dig, divide and move these daylilies 2 years ago. We couldn't split the clumps so did a shovel division and she took half of them home and made a new bed with them. Sharing plants is a lot of fun.
Zanymuse
I enjoy the dark leaves of deep red or burgandy as a backdrop for vibrant yellowgreen leaves and crystal palace lobelia blue. But almost any deep red leaf and bright green combination thrills me with or without flowers.
