Diamond Grass: Ideal plant partners for a radiant garden

What are the factors to consider when combining diamond grass?

In order to display Diamond Grass at its best, the following factors should be considered during planning:

• flower color: pink to silvery
• heyday: August to September
• Location Requirements: sunny, nutrient and humus rich soil
• growth height: up to 120 cm

With its medium-high growth pattern, diamond grass blends perfectly into beds. Ideally, you should stage it there with smaller or similarly tall companion plants. Raised plants in its vicinity usually appear too brusque and intrusive.

With diamond grass combination partners, make sure that they can cope with a sunny location. You should also accept a nutrient-rich soil.

Diamond grass is at its most impressive when it is in bloom, so it is advisable to combine it with summer-flowering plants. All plants are suitable for this, as the flower color of diamond grass is rather subtle.

Combine diamond grass in the bed or in the tub

You can take advantage of the structure-giving character of diamond grass by combining it with perennials that lack a certain formation and naturalness. The diamond grass with intensively colored perennials is particularly breathtaking. It can be in their background, but also next to them. Purple and pink flowers in particular look impressively radiant in combination with diamond grass.

Companion plants that are perfect for coexistence with Diamondgrass include:

• magnificent candles
• roses
• phlox
• autumn asters
• Autumn Anemones
• Patagonian verbena

Combine diamond grass with magnificent candle

The harmonious overall picture that the diamond grass and the phlox give is downright heart-rending. United planting partners could hardly appear more fragile and airy and loose. White flowering phlox go best with diamond grass. They both require a similar location and flower at the same time.

Combine diamond grass with phlox

The flowers of the phlox are extremely compact and richly stocked on the inflorescence. Diamond grass is able to loosen up this face and delicately play around it with its panicles of flowers. Red and pink phlox can be wonderfully combined with diamond grass. Note, however, that the phlox should be planted either in front of or behind the diamond grass, depending on the height of the plant.

Combine diamond grass with purple coneflowers

Echinacea produces a rich bloom in late summer. Diamond grass is planted directly behind it in order to combine this with a little detachment and filigreeness. Problems do not usually arise with this combination, as both plants love the sun and are peaceful towards their neighbors.

Combine diamond grass as a bouquet in the vase

The diamond grass will be an indispensable part of all bouquets once you have learned to love it. It gives lightness, delicacy and elegance to heavy flower heads. Simply enrich a bouquet dahlias, roses, hydrangeas or other late summer flowers with a few diamond grass flower stalks.

• dahlias
• roses
• autumn asters
• Verbena
• masterwort
• hydrangeas
• purple coneflower