Autumn joy sedum, pink yarrow and silver mound artemesia are what I have planted near my Liatris. Makes in interesting planting just about all year.

Perennial Combinations by C. Colston Burrell shows a combination of Bright Eyes phlox, liatris, baby's breath and shasta daisies that looks absolutely beautiful. I'll bet it would work with Francis Schubert phlox, too.

Sharon

Sharon2,
I love that picture the best in that book and tried to duplicate it last year. Unfortunately lost all of the daisies due to bad New England winter but I am off to the nursery to replace them. I also mixed some pink dahlias into this grouping also.
Daisies go with everything...

I tried to duplicate it last year, too; but my bareroot baby's breath never grew, and the nursery was out them. And then the deer nipped all the blossoms off my phlox one night. My phlox came back, of course; but I have my doubts about the deer ever letting it bloom very long - maybe I could move it closer to the house. I have extra Shasta Daisies, though. Would you like to trade?

Sharon

a favorite grouping i have seen in several magazines and am trying out this year is hollyhocks in the back and fronted with coreopsis(regular kind) then liatris and purple coneflower....unfortunately i have very good soil in this bed and the hollyhocks are now five feet tall and about 3' each around and are towering over and covering up the coreopsis and liatris and blocking the coneflower....oh well, live and learn