If you’ve been with me for any length of time, you know I’m an advocate for trying something new in your garden every year. This year I tried a combination of lobelia and calibrachoa in one pot to see how they’d work together.

If you’ve never grown calibrachoa, it’s a trailing plant that comes in a multitude of colors. I chose the MiniFamous variety in deep purple and haven’t been disappointed. It has trailed over my pot beautifully and hasn’t stopped blooming even in the extreme heat we’ve had this summer in Virginia. Here’s a shot of how the arrangement looks:

Combine lobelia and calibrachoa for a great display

Both the lobelia — I chose blue and white — and the calibrachoa like full sun and need to be kept fairly moist especially when the temps go into the high 90s and 100s. Calibrachoa is an annual which means it will die when temps reach freezing in those climates that are Zone 7 and lower and it’s also a good ground cover because it spreads.

I’ll definitely have this plant in my garden next year.

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