6 Late Summer Flowering Plant Combos
Plants always look better when combined with other plants that provide pleasing contrasts with flower color, plant form and foliage texture. Here are a few plant combinations that not only look great together but also have the same preferred growing conditions, watering requirements and soil preferences that are well matched.
Late Summer Perfection
Sun loving flowers and textures
Gaura lindheimeri Intermountain Beauty, Oenothera fremontii 'Shimmer' and Bouteloua 'Blonde Ambition'
Gaura lindheimeri Intermountain Beauty_b Oenothera fremontii shimmer Bouteloua gracillis Blonde Ambition Agas
Native Plants with Late Season Color
Shady Color for Pollinators
Salvia arizonicaCC (2) Aquilegia chrysantha v chaplinei Little Ajuga Catlins giant
Full Sun Succulents
Bulbine_resized Phemeranthus calycinum
Prairie Companions
Plant that come to us from native prairies but thrive in our high desert gardens.
Mourning Cloak butterfly Eryngium yuccaf Engelmannia peristenia close-up_bc_resiz Muhlenbergia reverchonii Undaunted Ruby
Sun Loving Perennial Combo
The white and pink appleblossom shaped flowers of Rosy Jane are perfect for the dark blue flower spikes of ‘Caradonna’. Sun loving, these two perennials are a good choice for sunny spots that get some supplemental irrigation. Deadhead to keep the flowers coming all summer.
Salvia Caradonna Gaura lindheimeri Rosyjane close up CC (
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