Combine azaleas: Wonderful design inspiration

What factors should be considered when combining azaleas?

Before you look out for beautiful partners for your azalea you should consider the following factors:

• flower color: white, yellow, orange or red
• heyday: March to May
• Location Requirements: partially shaded, acidic and humic substrate
• growth height: up to 150 cm

Azaleas are reluctant to be exposed to direct sunlight, preferring to stand under sparse treetops. Your companion plants should be fine with this. Sun worshipers are therefore not suitable planting partners for azaleas. Neither should azaleas be combined with lime-loving plants.

There are dwarf azaleas that only grow 40 cm high, but there are also specimens that can grow up to 150 cm. Make the choice of planting partner dependent on the growth height to be achieved.

Also note the blooming season of the azaleas and the color they produce during that time. At best, this should harmonize with that of the accompanying plants.

Combine azaleas in the bed or in the bucket

Plants that are more reserved with their flowers or at least do not bloom at the same time go well with the azaleas. This also includes foliage plants such as hostas and ferns. Furthermore, combinations with light trees such as pines are very popular, as they provide shade for the azaleas. First and foremost, keep in mind that the companion plants should be able to get used to the location requirements of the azaleas.

These specimens, among others, go fantastic with azaleas:

• astilbes
• hosts
• Pine trees
• ferns like sword fern, rib fern and peacock wheel fern
• golden nettles
• columbines
• hydrangeas

Combine azaleas with hydrangeas

Both the hydrangeas as well as the azaleas like an acidic substrate. In addition, both plants are reluctant to be exposed to direct sunlight, preferring to stand indoors penumbra. Also convincing: Since the azaleas bloom early, there is no color overload with the hydrangeas, which only bloom in summer.

Combine azaleas with golden nettle

This union has proven itself. The gold nettle blends in nicely as a groundcover at the base of the azalea. There it protects the azalea from drying out. The azalea has decorative leaves from underneath, while the azalea can devote itself entirely to the presentation of its flowers in spring.

Combine azaleas with peacock wheel fern

To emphasize the forest character of the azalea, you can combine it with the peacock wheel fern. This prefers a similar location to the azalea and does not steal the show when it is in bloom. Put this one fern preferably slightly offset in front of the azalea so that both plants can easily come into view.

Combine azaleas as a bouquet in the vase

In spring, azaleas ensure extraordinary color intensity in the bouquet. Compositions with similarly or very simply colored flowers are therefore visually pleasing. Otherwise the bouquet in the vase seems too colorful and obtrusive. White azaleas can be wonderfully combined with pink peonies or red tulips, for example. Delicate columbines form the missing delicate counterpart.

• columbines
• tulips
• peonies
• daffodils