AT A GLANCE
Which plants are suitable for underplanting dogwood?
- foam flower or memorial
- Evergreen or Ivy
- sedges or bearskin grass
- tulips or daffodils
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Underplant dogwoods with perennials
Perennials that as shade tolerant apply, can gather at the foot of the dogwood. However, not only their compatibility with regard to the lighting conditions is decisive. You should as well shallow roots and small remain. Furthermore is assertiveness asked there Cornus tends to crowd out weaker growth.
Leaf ornamental perennials also go wonderfully with dogwood like flowering perennials. If you want to accentuate the white flowers of the dogwood, choose underplanting perennials that also have white flowers. Here is a selection of suitable underplanting:
- hosts
- Purplebells
- forest lily
- foam flower
- Spotted Lungwort
- crying heart
- porcelain flowers
- Bergenia
Underplant dogwoods with ground covers
Many ground covers are undemanding, tolerate drought and also thrive effortlessly in the penumbra until shadow. Such specimens are ideal for underplanting the dogwood. They stay low and cover its root area with its dense foliage. The following are particularly suitable:
- ivy
- periwinkle
- cranesbill
- Evergreen creeper
Underplant dogwoods with grasses
Frugal grasses that anchor themselves flat in the ground and maximum knee high can also be used as underplanting for the dogwood. However, they should at best be planted in the ground, albeit that Dogwood planted becomes. In addition, it is important that the grasses do not place high demands on the light conditions. Matching are:
- forest sedge
- mountain sedge
- bearskin grass
- dwarf sedge
- Gold Rim Sedge
- Variegated Japan Sedge
Underplant dogwood with onion flowers
In the bed as well as in a hedge or even on the meadow, Cornus can be planted under with bulb flowers. She benefit from the still good ones light conditions in spring. Sometimes, however, the dogwood dislikes such underplanting and the bulb flowers are almost driven away. Nevertheless, it is worth trying:
- tulips
- daffodils
- snowdrop
- lily of the valley
Plant dogwoods in the tub
Especially in the tub there is for the dogwood - regardless of whether red dogwood, white dogwood or flower dogwood – the danger that the Soil dries out too quickly. Since it does not like drought, we recommend planting under the tub with groundcover or low and densely growing perennials. You are therefore welcome to use one of the following plants for planting underneath:
- memorial
- cranesbill
- Small periwinkle
- lady's mantle
Tip
Protect from drying out and heat without underplanting
To protect a dogwood from drying out and heat in the root area even without underplanting, you can also use a mulch layer. You should fill these up regularly. For the dogwood, for example, is suitable mulch(€27.00 at Amazon*) bark, grass clippings or reeds.
