Plumeria Pot Buddies. A.K.A. Companion plants for Plumeria

There was a post in the Garden Web Plumeria forum about companion plants for Plumeria that inspired me for this post. Enjoy!

Lupinus texensis 'Alamo Fire' This plant has been sort of shaded out by the Laurentia and Petunia in the pot, but it's just starting to bloom and should look nice

Yellow Petunias. I know that many people hate Petunias because they are so common, but I just love how bushy they are. These yellow ones are nice.

Calendula 'Zeolights' I can't wait until these take off. Right now, I just have one lonely bloom.

Laurentia This plant has blown me away. From one seed, I got a huge bushy plant that would look wonderful alone in a container. You can see in the first photo how prolific it is. I wish the flower color photographed a little better. It's more purple than it looks here.

White petunias. Crisp, clean and white.

Linaria I don't know the cultivar, but this is an interesting plant.

I also have Statice and Centaurea in the pot, but they aren't blooming yet. For the most part, everything has been really drought tolerant and I only water when they are looking wilty. I bet this pot would look wonderful just filled with colorful petunias.

Strawflower, lilies, calendula

Here is what is blooming on May 12th

Linaria. From seed

White Petunias. Grown from seed.

Helichrysum - Strawflower. The purple color is so interesting

Orange lily. I bought this on sale at Home Depot/Lowe's for $3 last fall. I was surprised at how quickly it bloomed again - It's only May!

Calendula I grew from seed. I started these earlier in the spring.

Yellow Petunias.

New Plants

Here, I hope to show you two plants you've never seen before!

Here is Silver Thyme. Because it's an herb, it's hardy from zone 4a to 10b (According to PlantFiles), so there is NO excuse not to go buy it! I bought this one at The Natural Gardener - it was like $2.00. 

Here is a plant that took me a while to figure out what it was. It was very much an impulse by at Home Depot. I had never seen this color magenta before in a flower, let alone paired with yellow. I also really liked the leaves. Only about 2 weeks after I bought it, did I figure out that I overpaid for it by about $4.00. Lessons learned. It is Linaria - Toadflax

Isn't it beautiful? I have hence found that it is sold quite commonly online - haha

This summer, I planted morning glories. In November, I looked down and saw this beautiful light blue flower. What a surprise, since I had planted purple and pink morning glories. Unfortunately, I didn't get any seeds from it, but at least I got a picture

I think this next one is pretty common. It's a blue lobelia. I love the texture.