I have a summer frock - white background with a hot pink, bright orange and royal blue flower print. It's bright and breezy and the colours work, especially the orange and pink so see if you can find some orange flowers with broader or spiky leaves to contrast with your salvia.
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Hot pink and other bright colours really sing against dark foliage. If there is room you could plant a dark leaved shrub, or next year try a dark leaved dahlia that would contribute flowers too. David Howard is a hearty grower with orange flowers, Bishop of Llandaff has bright red, single flowers and pretty foliage. There are others too - you could go all in with near black Karma Choc!
Thank you again everyone for your helpful comments on this thread, they really gave me food for thought! I realised / remembered that I had planned to plant a rambling rose against the fence in the area where I've planted these salvia, so they will need to be moved to the front of the border anyway. I was thinking perhaps that if the rose is bushy enough at the base that it might hide the fence colour somewhat and then I could go for what feels natural to me with cerise pink which is purple - purple against the green will obviously look nice. I know absolutely nothing about roses in general though, so not sure if there are ramblers with bushy underparts . More researching to be done! (And also... I guess if I did want to change the fence colour, now would be the time to do it before planting a rose! One thing always seems to lead to another!)
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