How to transform your garden into a masterpiece

What are the factors to consider when combining phlox?

In order to combine phlox beautifully, it is important to consider the following factors when planning:

• flower color: white, pink, violet, rarely red or yellow
• heyday: July to September (summer phlox)
• Location Requirements: Sunny, sandy to loamy soil
• growth height: up to 110 cm

The growth height and type of your phlox variety is a decisive factor for a successful combination: This is how cushion phlox like to plant alone or combine different colored varieties of cushion phlox together, while tall phlox combine well with grasses, other perennials or even small shrubs leaves.

You should also pay attention to the flower color and choose similar flower colors of the companion plants in order to create a harmonious image or deliberately choose contrasting colors to create a colorful garden design.

It makes sense to choose planting partners with a similar flowering time and similar location requirements.

Combine phlox in the bed or in the tub

Phlox in the bed or in the bucket can be combined with many different plants. On the one hand, various sweet grasses such as moor grass go well with phlox, on the other hand, phlox can also be combined with flowering plants that bloom in a similar shade. This is how you create a beautiful, pastel-coloured, white or blue sea of ​​flowers.

The following go well with Phlox:

• moor grass
• riding grass
• lavender
• coneflower
• hydrangeas
• Blue collard

Combine phlox with lavender

Purple flowering plants go well with Phlox. Therefore, lavender is just too predestined as a plant partner. However, since lavender only grows to about 60 cm high, it should be combined with less tall phlox, such as B. planted with the forest phlox or in front of the phlox. Since lavender, like summer phlox, blooms in summer, you can look forward to a beautiful violet sea of ​​flowers.

Combine phlox with hydrangeas

With a growth height of up to 120cm, a flowering period from June to August and similar location requirements, hydrangeas are the ideal companion plant for phlox. Combine blue, pink or purple flowering hydrangeas with tall summer phlox in white, pink or purple. If you like it noble, you can design your bed with white flowering phlox and the hydrangea Annabelle all in white.

Combine phlox with sun hat

The sun-loving coneflower also goes well with the phlox, especially the pink flowering variety 'Primadonna' pink. Like phlox, coneflower likes slightly sandy soil and a location in full sun.

Combine phlox as a bouquet in the vase

Phlox makes a wonderful cut flower and can be combined in a bouquet with other pastel-colored or white-flowered flowers. Combinations with pink or white blooming roses have a noble effect ornamental onion. You can round off the bouquet with wild garlic leaves or other large, green leaves.

• roses
• ornamental onion
• wild garlic
• yarrow
• gypsophila
• summer-blooming bluebells, e.g. B. Bunch of Bellflowers
• Blue collard