Specialty Gardening: What plant combinations are you planning this year?, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
In the other two front yard beds, I added a plant I had a few years ago and have been searching for ever since. Finally found two of them so I snapped them up and plopped them in the ground. It's a blue-flowering echium - not long-lived, but the color is incredible and it's a nice little mini-shrub, just the perfect size for my beds. This is a picture of my original plant, where it contrasted beautifully with the nasturtiums that reseed themselves around.

I treasure blue flowering plants; I don't have very many!