What factors should be considered when combining Indian nettle?
Keep this in mind when planning your combination with the Indian nettle the following factors:
- flower color: white, yellow, red, pink or blue-violet
- heyday: July to September
- Location Requirements: sunny, permeable and nutrient-rich soil
- growth height: up to 120 cm
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With its growth height, the Indian nettle is best placed in the middle of a bed. It can be combined there with equally large perennials. Higher and lower plants should be placed in such a way that they do not disappear visually.
The Indian nettle needs a sunny location. Suitable planting partners should also like to stand in the sun and turn their backs on the shade.
Note the late flowering of the Indian nettle. It is best combined with plants that also only bloom in mid or late summer.
Combine Indian nettle in a bed or in a bucket
With the Indian nettle in your luggage, you can breathe a noticeable touch of naturalness into beds. It is recommended to use the Indian nettles to design autumn beds due to their flowering time. Ideally, lower perennials are planted in front of the Indian nettles. They perform the function of retouching her rather bare lower area. Grasses and happily blooming perennials that contrast the flower color of the respective Indian nettle also go well with the Indian nettles.
Perfect companion plants for the Indian nettle include:
- phlox
- sun bride
- purple coneflower
- astilbe
- bluebell
- silver candle
- Switchgrass
- loosestrife
Combine Indian nettle with phlox
A beautiful combination results from phlox with Indian nettle. The phlox comes into focus because of the different nature of its inflorescences. The Indian nettle cleverly accentuates this and creates a nice contrast when it is a different color from the phlox. For example, plant red Indian nettles next to white phlox.
[image: bed|nettle, phlox]Combine Indian nettle with sun bride
The bright and warm yellow of the sun bride goes well with the hearty red of the Indian nettle. In addition, deep blue-violet varieties of Indian nettle are intoxicating when they are allowed to gather next to the sun bride.
[picture: bed|nettle, sun bride]Combine Indian nettle with purple sun hat
No question: the purple coneflower goes well with the Indian nettle. They both have their origins in the prairie regions of North America and therefore have similar location requirements. Their stature also matches. The choice is yours when it comes to the colours: white Indian nettle with the purple coneflower set almost pulsating accents. If, on the other hand, the flower colors are in harmony, a calmer overall picture is created.
[image: beet|nettle, purple coneflower]Combine Indian nettle as a bouquet in the vase
In a bouquet, Indian nettle blends in fantastically with other late summer flowers. How about, for example, an arrangement of red Indian nettles and yellow-red suneyes and dyer's chamomile? The balance between red and yellow is simply beautiful. Furthermore, other flowers and delicate grasses can visually enhance the bouquet with Indian nettles in the vase.
- sun eye
- phlox
- lady's mantle
- dyer's chamomile
- scabiosis
- ornamental grasses How riding grass and switchgrass
