Lovely picture of the Nieremburgia! I am a fan of Victoria Blue Salvia since it makes so many other colors play nicely together, and roses don't come in a true blue. I also plant coral impatiens around the base of the coral/white/burgundy bed in front of my house, and lilac pink impatiens in a relatively shady area of the yard with shade-tolerant roses. I use a lot of Persian Shield (strobilanthes) as an annual in relatively part shade areas that really lightens up the purple/dark green tones and "blooms" when nothing else has much color in August.

I wish I could maintain the larkspur or alyssum or snapdragons that other people grow, but mine refuse to establish. I do put some dark red snapdragons in with the burgundy etc. front bed, but they bloom periodically.

Of course every bed has daylilies to fill in when the roses are taking a break, and I love phlox for the same reason. Shadier beds have coral bells and hostas and hydrangeas. Clematis does fabulous in my zone so it tends to get its own support, as most vines could overwhelm most of my roses. Front hot sun beds get filled in with agastache and Gaura for a relatively wild look, and of course I need mums and asters for the fall season.

Cynthia

Blue Suade Shoes salvia by Proven winners and others in that series. best Sylvia I have seen and humming birds absolutly love it. Always in masses of bloom in my zone 9.

Unfortunately, I had trouble getting this thread to post… and then, it posted twice! Since I’m on the App, I can’t remove my own post like I want to. But since the other one already has a lot of posts, please abandon this one and move to the other one, if you don’t mind! It would be nice to keep all the info together. Thanks, y’all!