AT A GLANCE
Which plant partners harmonize with hydrangeas in the bed?
Be careful when choosing a partner. This secret of success also applies to a successful combination of hydrangeas and companion plants. Hydrangea species come with different growth forms and location requirements. The popular peasant hydrangeas prefer one partially shaded location. snowball and panicle hydrangeas also thrive in sunny locations. With their flower shapes, velvet and plate hydrangeas differ significantly from the spherical flowers of their conspecifics.
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The ideal planting partner
peasant hydrangea makes next to one plate hydrangea still not a good figure. In the following sections you can read how to include important selection criteria in the planting plan for hydrangeas in the bed.Which companion plants go well with farmer's hydrangeas?
Planting partners of a farmer's hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla) should come to terms with their visual dominance, shade tolerant be, thrive in slightly acidic soil and have a similarly high need for watering. These perennials meet the requirements:
- splendor pier (Astilbe)
- Funkie (Hosta)
- masterwort (Astrantia)
- As groundcover: Large-leaved periwinkle (Vinca major)
What are beautiful plant partners for panicle hydrangeas?
When choosing a partner for site-tolerant panicle hydrangeas, you can draw on plenty. With their funnel-shaped growth and sunny disposition, Hydrangea paniculata give their neighbors plenty of room to develop. Five recommended companion plants in the most important flower colors:
- Blue Flowers: Lavender (Lavandula)
- White flowers: Sage 'Snowhill' (Salvia nemorosa)
- Pink flowers: Tall Phlox 'Kirmesländer' (phlox paniculata)
- Red flowers: blanket flower 'Burgundy' (Gaillardia grandiflora)
- Yellow flowers: 'Sun Child' tickseed (Coreopsis grandiflora)
What goes well with velvet and plate hydrangeas in the bed?
Velvet hydrangea (Hydrangea aspera) and hydrangea (Hydrangea serrata) bloom mainly in pink and blue tones. With their plate-shaped flowers, these hydrangea species appear more subtle than cocky ball hydrangeas. All perennials that do not compete with hydrangeas for the most magnificent flowers join in in perfect harmony. These include ornamental foliage plants and ornamental grasses:
- Purple Bells 'White Cloud' (Heuchera sanguinea)
- Silverbell 'Plum Pudding' (Heuchera micrantha)
- Sweetheart Funkie 'Fire and Ice' (Hosta)
- Pennisetum alopecuroide (Pennisetum alopecuroide)
- Diamond-riding grass (Calamagrostis brachytricha)
- Japanese blood grass 'Red Baron' (Imperata cylindrica)
Which neighbors complement each other with viburnum hydrangeas?
The legendary snowball hydrangea 'Annabelle' (Hydrangea arborescens) is predestined for an elegant bed design in white and green. The white flowering floribunda 'Schneeflock' and the radiant white are suitable as companion plants clematis 'Madame le Coutre'. The white-edged sedge 'Ice Dance' (Carex foliosissima) is useful as a ground cover. The white-green hydrangea bed is stylishly framed by a hedge box trees.
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Bee-friendly planting partners for hydrangeas
With barren flower balls, garden hydrangeas are a feast for the eyes; a bitter disappointment for bees. This is only possible with the right companion plants hydrangea bed for the bee friendly eye catcher. Blue-flowering plants are bee-friendly (Phacelia tanacetifolia), cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) and delphinium (Delphinium). White flowering bee pastures are lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and scented stoneweed (Lobularia maritima). Zinnias (Zinnia) and Cosmos bipinnatus (Cosmos bipinnatus) shine purple.
