Filigree grasses and colorful perennials can harmonize perfectly with each other, it just depends on the right combination. Some grasses are more suitable as solitary plants and should also be planted individually in order to come into their own.

Flowering perennials and grasses complement each other wonderfully

Which grasses and perennials harmonize with each other?

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

If you have decided on straight-growing, strict-looking perennials, then choose fine, perhaps overhanging grasses. They loosen up the bed significantly. Combine different leaf shapes and colors, such as light-colored grasses with dark-leaved perennials or vice versa, this will make your new bed more appealing. But make sure that all plants in the bed need about the same care (water and fertilizer).

A shady bed with grasses and perennials

You can plant Japanese silver ribbon grass in a shady garden, it feels good there and brightens up dark areas a little. This weed harmonises perfectly with large-leaved perennials such as the herbaceous begonia. Funkias and hydrangeas also thrive very well in the shade.

A bed in full sun with grasses and perennials

For a full sun, for example, bluebells, laurels, blood cranesbill and edelweiss are suitable, but also sedum and various types of carnations. Blue marram grass, white ostrich grass, magellanic grass and silver spike grass also feel very comfortable in the sun. But don't plant too many different species in one bed, as this can quickly become restless.

The essentials in brief:

  • combine different leaf shapes and colors with each other
  • combine low perennials (not only) with low grasses
  • rather plant tall perennials in the background of the bed
  • create exciting contrasts
  • don't take too many different plants, that looks restless

tips

When choosing plants, focus on your own taste, after all, you want the garden to please you and not necessarily win a prize.

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Garden design