AT A GLANCE
Which plants go well with the Wollziest?
What factors should be considered when combining Wollziest?
In order to obtain a winning combination with the Wollziest, it is crucial to consider the following characteristics and requirements:
- Leaves: tomentose hairs, silvery
- flower color: violet to pink
- heyday: July to August
- Location Requirements: sunny, well-drained and rather dry soil
- growth height: up to 100 cm
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The silvery foliage color of the Wollziests is extremely concise and sets the tone. Therefore, make sure that the accompanying plants match or visually benefit from it.
In addition, when combining the Wollziest, it is crucial that its planting partners match its site requirements. All plants that like it sunny and warm and a rather dry soil are almost predestined.
Last but not least, the height of growth and the flowering time of the Wollziest should be taken into account. It looks nice when the companions bloom at the same time and grow to a similar height as the Wollziest.
Combine Wollziest in the bed or in the bucket
The Wollziest becomes a picturesque frame for other plants in the bed. In particular, colorful flowering perennials are made for an interplay. Many of them literally light up in his presence. They owe that to the silvery basic tenor. At the same time, a noble-looking overall picture is created. Preferably use white, pink or violet flowering perennials for a combination, as these harmonize incredibly well with the silver.
The following specimens are an excellent match for the Wollziest:
- sedum
- Bed and shrub roses
- lady's mantle
- steppe spurge
- steppe sage
- lavender
- Bergenia
- Mountain Alyssum
Combine Wollziest with Steppenspurge
Steppenspurge and Wollziest both love a sunny, warm and dry location. But the two don't just fit together in relation to that. In terms of colour, they form a symphony that could hardly be expressed more elegantly.
[picture: beet|wollziest, steppe spurge]Combine Wollziest with shrub rose
Especially white and pink flowering shrub roses look absolutely fantastic in combination with the Wollziest. The Wollziest encircles its root area with its silvery foliage and in midsummer it piles up its Flower candles like to be the icing on the cake in the foreground of the shrub roses and create decorative accents.
[image: beet|wollziest, shrub rose]Combine Wollziest with lavender
The violet of the lavender is also in harmony with the violet flowers of the woolly ziest. In addition, the silvery foliage of the lavender harmonises with the exterior of the woolly goat. In terms of location and growth height, the two plants also go well together.
[image: beet|woolziest, lavender]Combine Wollziest as a bouquet in the vase
For a bouquet you can use both the foliage and the flower candles of the woolly ziest. Due to the silvery color, the bouquet with the woolly goatee gets something exquisite. Numerous flowers that are in season in midsummer and into autumn can be added. Flattering and graceful are white flowers with wool tassels. Things get a little happier with pink or violet autumn asters, for example phlox. Bold ones combine Wollziest with red ones chrysanthemums or red roses.
- Autumn Asters
- phlox
- roses
- ornamental sage
- chrysanthemums
- gypsophila