AT A GLANCE
Which plants go well with roses?
What factors should be considered when combining roses?
In order to underline the elegance of the roses and not dispute their throne, you should consider the following aspects when combining them:
- flower color: white, pink, yellow, orange, fuchsia or violet
- heyday: June to October
- Location Requirements: sunny, sandy-loamy and nutrient-rich soil
- growth height: up to 3m
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You should include the flowering time and the color of the blossoms of the respective rose in your considerations. Most roses bloom from June to July and a second time from late summer to autumn.
It is also important to base the choice of companion plants on the type of rose. So match
climbing roses Plants that also like to climb up, and plants that stay low harmonize with groundcover roses.The observation of the location requirements of the roses is also crucial. For example, roses are often combined with lavender, although the lavender does not correspond to the roses due to its location requirements.
Combine roses in beds or in tubs
Roses can be brought into interaction with perennials as well as with herbs, woody plants and ornamental grasses. ornamental grasses have the ability to gently caress roses and take away their severity. Perennials can contrast or match roses with their flower colors. For example, red and pink roses pair well with white perennials, and yellow roses look intoxicating when paired with blue or purple perennials.
Among the numerous possible planting partners for roses, these have proven particularly useful here:
- Ornamental grasses such as pampas grass, fountain grass and purple love grass
- boxwood
- clematis
- hydrangeas
- delphinium
- hibiscus
- lady's mantle
- steppe sage
Combine shrub roses with pennisetum
All shrub roses can be optically polished with the lamp cleaner grass. With its filigree and fluffy flower spikes, the lamp cleaner grass manages to give the face of the shrub roses something soft and dynamic. Place the ornamental grass either behind low shrub roses or next to them. Its location requirements are in line with those of the shrub roses.
[picture: flower bed|shrub rose, lamp cleaner grass]Combine ground cover roses with lady's mantle
The ground cover roses look more noble due to the proximity of the lady's mantle, which is best planted in groups. The lady's mantle does not represent any visual competition, but rather emphasizes the roses and underscores their bright flower colour.
[image: bed|ground cover rose, lady's mantle]Combine shrub roses with delphiniums
Larkspur is often combined with shrub roses. It likes a sunny spot on a nutrient-rich and rather fresh to moist substrate - just like the roses. Visually, the two create a real firework display, for example when blue larkspur is combined with yellow or red roses.
[image: bed|shrub rose, delphinium]Combine roses as a bouquet in the vase
Roses carry a message of love in almost every bouquet. With them you can combine most other summer flowers, but also delicate grasses. A colorful mixture looks playful, whereas a tone-in-tone composition can provide elegance and nostalgia.
- gypsophila
- lady's mantle
- gerberas
- Switchgrass
- ornamental onion
- steppe sage
- sweet thistles
