AT A GLANCE
What goes well with boxwood and lavender?
Fit the best roses to boxwood and lavender. The royal trees harmonize perfectly with a border of evergreen boxwood and blue lavender flowers. Ideally, you combine ground cover roses, bed roses, shrub roses and standard roses on several floors, framed by a box hedge and lavender. A distance of 30 cm from the roses takes into account the different demands of the floral protagonists.
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The stylish garden design is rounded off with boxwood and lavender perennials and ornamental grasses, such as lavishly blooming cranesbill (geranium), opulent flame flowers (phlox) and filigree sedges (Carex).
Which boxwood substitute goes well with lavender?
A good boxwood substitute are the evergreen ones European holly (Ilex aquifolium 'Hedge Dwarf') and the Japanese holly (Ilex crenata 'Stokes'). You can see the trees boxwood confusingly similar, but opposite box tree moth and boxwood dieback. These boxwood alternatives also go well with lavender:
- Barberry (Berberis buxifolia)
- Dwarf yew 'Renkes Kleiner Grüner' (Taxus baccata)
- honeysuckle 'May Green' (Lonicera nitida)
- Dwarf Privet (Ligustrum vulgare)
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Green, white and blue planting idea with boxwood and lavender
When boxwood and lavender unite in the bed with beautiful white blossoms, a picturesque garden picture is created. Buxus sempervirens 'Herrenhausen' serves as the outer border. Lavender 'Hidcote Blue' (Lavandula angustifolia) acts as an inner bed edging. Ball hydrangea 'Annabelle' (Hydrangea arborescens), floribunda 'Schneeflocke' (Rosa) and aster 'White Ladys' (Aster novi-belgii) with white flowers. Buxus 'Blauer Heinz' sets decorative accents as a ball sculpture, whose round shape is reflected in the ball trumpet tree 'Nana' (Catalpa bignonioides) reflects.
