Create a bed with grasses and perennials

Which grasses and perennials harmonize with each other?

When choosing your grasses and perennials, you should pay particular attention to the height of the plant. Low grasses harmonize very well with perennials that also remain small. You can use feather or blood grass, for example, with asters or Sedum plant combine. The fine blades of grass make the colored flowers glow particularly intensely. You can create special contrasts with individual tall shrubs between low grasses.

If you have decided on straight-growing, stern-looking perennials, then choose fine, perhaps overhanging grasses. They loosen up the bed significantly. Combine different leaf shapes and colors, such as light grasses with dark-leaved perennials or vice versa, that's what you do new bed more delightful. Make sure, however, that all plants in the bed have about the same care (water and fertilizer) to need.

A shady bed with grasses and perennials

In a shady garden you can plant Japanese silver ribbon grass well, it feels comfortable there and brightens dark areas a little. This grass goes perfectly with large-leaved perennials such as the perennial begonia. Also hostas and Hydrangeas do very well in the shade.

A bed in full sun with grasses and perennials

For a full sun, for example, bluebells, brown cells, the blood cork's bill and that are suitable Edelweiss, but also the sedum and various Carnation species. Blue beach grass, white ostrich grass, magellan grass and silver ear grass also feel very comfortable in the sun. But do not put too many different species in one bed, it quickly becomes restless.

The essentials in brief:

• combine different leaf shapes and colors
• Combine low perennials (not only) with low grasses
• rather plant tall perennials in the background of the bed
• Create exciting contrasts
• do not use too many different plants, it looks restless