The other plant worth mentioning is annual dill. Does anybody else let it self sow? It sure is fresh and pretty and that blue green color plus the acid yellow in the flower heads is lovely. I let it come up and backdrop things and yank it when annoying, let a big go to seed and sprinkle it around. I snapped a pic it is pretty bright sunny and would look better early morning but you get the idea.

This one is nepeta, clematis Nelly Moser (or so I thought, not so sure now), and a purple bearded iris.

Here's a shade combo that pleases me more every year. It's Heuchera marmalade, an unknown blue hosta, snowberry, and boxwood:

And a closeup of the above:

Here's a container combo - last year's pic: 2 kinds of sweet potato vine, coleus, canna and creeping jenny, with heuchera in the little pot.

Sheri

This is crocosmia, shasta daisy, a white salvia, and iris fronds. Not shown is a smokebush, which provides a nice backdrop to this combo from a distance.

The clematis climbs into a mockorange - as does a couple of canes of New Dawn rose. They bloom together after the clematis finishes blooming. With deadheading, the rose will bloom off and on most of the summer. Last summer we removed the majority of the New Dawn roses that used to be on the arbour but we left the canes that grow into the mockorange because we liked that combo. The jury is still out though on whether the rose gets to stay - it is SO vigorous and thorny we may conclude it's not worth the effort to keep it controlled in the shrub. We'll see...

Unfortunately I can't really take credit for any good combinations in my yard... usually I just chalk it up to good luck since I plant so haphazardly!

Anyway, it's pretty washed out from the major glare on my phone's camera, but that's two achillea -- 'coronation gold' and 'ballerina', I think -- and some veronica 'royal candles'.

Cindy -- what a great combo! The pinks match and the stamens of the lilies are the perfect complement to the orange stamens in the lilies.

I think this is where coneflowers really excel - they are such nice companions, very different in texture than anything else.

Makes me smile.

I have so many, that I don't know where to start and I know that it will take me an hour to round up the photos.

salvia 'Caradonna' with allium 'Purple Sensation' in spring
coreopsis 'Redshift' with blue salvias in summer
agastache 'Cotton Candy' with drumstick allium in early summer
monarda 'Rasberry Wine' with echinacea 'Prairie Splendor'.... this year, I added 'Starfighter' lily and white phlox 'David'.
Rose campion with larkspur.

In the last year, I've started mixing up my annuals and perennials for a mixed meadow look. Not nearly as structured as most companion plantings.... it's like "meadow meets cottage garden" and recently a garden writer decided to call my entire garden (inside and outside the fence) a cottage garden.

Many more...have to think about it.

Here is a link to my favorite right now-- blazing star, bee balm, and coneflowers (soon to be joined by the Russian sage and agastache starting to bloom)

Cameron