blues brothers

It's amusing how two such different plants from wildly disparate origins have such similar color and have begun blooming at exactly the same time. The first is the Ceanothus caeruleus in the last post, and the second is Salvia azurea (aka Salvia pitcheri). They are both anomalies in my red garden, but are such a heart melting color that I can't remove them. In fact, they make me wonder why I don't replace the entire garden with blues. In the pictures, the ceanothus is revealed to have a bit more violet, and the salvia is closer to true blue. But in the garden, they look nearly identical in color. Don't they make a nice pair?