In the past, roses, especially hybrid tea roses, were mainly planted individually as solitaires or with many plants of one variety in pure rose beds. In modern gardens, however, a more colourful, varied design has prevailed. Luckily, because roses can be wonderfully combined with summer flowers, perennials, grasses, hedges or some climbing plants. You can plan the beds colorfully by selecting plants with different flower colors. Flower beds in which one or two colors can work together also look very beautiful.

Roses and bluebells get along very well

The best combinations of roses and perennials

Perennials are the ideal companions for roses, as they bring a variety of flower shapes and colors and thus provide a lot of variety in the bed. Select plants with different flowering periods so that your flower beds are constantly blooming from spring to autumn. The combination of roses with the bright blue delphinium is particularly classic, but monkshood, mullein, quenelle, candytuft and lady's mantle also harmonize very well. Other ideal rose companions are:

  • bluebells
  • irises
  • ornamental sage
  • scabioses
  • spur flowers
  • coneflower
  • gypsophila
  • evening primroses
  • Globeflowers
  • yarrow
  • Burning Love
  • Turkish poppy

Location and care needs should be the same

Incidentally, ideal companions for roses are not only those plants that look particularly beautiful in combination with roses, but above all those that have similar needs in terms of location and care. For this reason, roses and lavender, for example, do not get along so well.

The right choice of roses and grasses

If you combine roses and grasses with each other, you create a varied, natural bed. Choose perennial, rather clumpy grasses that form few runners. For example:

  • Pennisetum grass - flowers very profusely from July to October
  • Chinese reed - lush flowering and beautiful autumn colors
  • Feather grass - very good for full sun locations
  • Moore-grass - bright yellow fall color
  • Garden riding grass - can be combined in many ways
  • Pampas grass - very large inflorescences

Beautifully framed: roses and hedges

Noble roses are also very classic, planted in front of a lush green boxwood or yew hedge. The popular boxwood in particular has been used as a border or background for rose beds for centuries - the rose colors develop particularly intensively in front of its beautiful green.

Always beautiful: roses and climbing plants

The classic rose companion among the climbing plants is the clematis (Clematis), which is available in an almost unmanageable variety of species and varieties. Another possible partner for fast-growing climbing roses and ramblers is the honeysuckle, which grows to around five meters in height and blooms profusely with strongly scented flowers.

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Always make sure to place higher-growing varieties in the background, lower flowering plants belong in the foreground. Tall rose varieties such as certain hybrid hybrids are also ideal for underplanting with summer flowers, perennials or subshrubs. However, roses should never be crowded too closely by their neighbors.

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