AT A GLANCE
What factors should be considered when combining riding grass?
Successful combinations require all of its important traits to be considered when choosing companion plants for the reedgrass. This includes the following points:
- flower color: bronze colored
- heyday: June to August
- Location Requirements: sunny, loamy-sandy and nutrient-rich soil
- growth height: up to 180 cm
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The most beautiful is the riding grass with its feathery flower spikes. However, it only shows this in the summer. Keep this in mind when looking for planting partners for the reed grass.
While some grasses feel comfortable in the shade, the riding grass prefers sunny locations. His companion plants should be content with that.
Due to its growth height, the reed grass is predestined to be found in the background or at a generous distance in the middle of a bed. Take this into account when combining.
Combine riding grass in the bed or in the bucket
The riding grass is the perfect structure in the bed, as long as the bed is in a sunny location. With its linear growth and considerable height, it skilfully attracts attention and almost looks like an exclamation mark. Perennials that are allowed to gather around the riding grass experience a new lease of life with it as a neighbor. Combinations with intensely colored perennials, which want to draw attention to themselves with their flowers in summer and up to autumn, are particularly recommended.
These plants, among others, go well with reed grass:
- delphinium
- Autumn Asters
- roses
- sun bride
- Purple Coneflower
- sedum
- autumn anemones
Combine Reedgrass with Crimson Coneflower
To breathe a prairie character into beds, the combination of riding grass and purple coneflower is perfect. The natural coloring of the riding grass and its wild charm enchant the purple sun hat. Due to the proximity to the reed grass, this gets a noticeable lightness and can be specifically differentiated from other plants.
[image: bed|reed grass, purple coneflower]Combine riding grass with larkspur
Whether in blue, violet or in soft pink - the delphinium goes well with the reed grass. It also prefers a sunny spot on loamy-sandy soil. Due to its height, it can stand both in front of and in the middle of several riding grasses and still makes a remarkable appearance.
[image: bed|reed grass, larkspur]Combine riding grass with autumn anemones
The movement of the autumn anemones, which often appear very dynamic, is somewhat slowed down and at the same time given a frame when they are combined with the reed grass. Various autumn anemones paired with several riding grasses look most impressive here.
[image: bed|reed grass, autumn anemone]Combine riding grass as a bouquet in the vase
Any bouquet that still lacks that certain something can be given the perfect shape with a few flowering stalks of riding grass. All summer and autumn flowers like anemones, asters, chrysanthemums etc. receive the icing on the cake through socializing with the riding grass in the vase and appear lighter, more natural and more lively overall.
- dahlias
- chrysanthemums
- roses
- daisies
- Autumn Asters
- Verbena
- masterwort