Whether square or round, as a hedge or ball - with box trees, beautiful accents can be set in the garden. Since the evergreen shrubs retain their glossy green color even in winter, they can be easily combined with various deciduous plants. Combinations of boxwood with roses, lush flowering perennials or plants with variegated foliage look particularly pretty.
Boxwood is often combined with roses
Combine boxwood with perennials
The gardener understands perennials to be flowering plants whose above-ground parts die off in autumn and which sprout again from the roots in spring. They are available in countless colours, shapes and sizes, which can be used to create colorful summer beds as well as distinctive one- or two-tone borders. In between, shaped boxwood solitaires fit just as well as a low boxwood hedge as a border. Perennials like these go wonderfully with Buchs:
- Blossom Sage (Salvia nemorosa)
- Speedwell (Veronica longif.webpolia)
- Fig-leaved hollyhock (Alcea ficifolia)
- Large-flowered blanket flower (Gaillardia x grandiflora)
- Large-flowered Tickseed (Coreopsis grandiflora)
- Tall Flame Flower (Phlox paniculata)
- Pillow Aster (Aster dumosus)
- Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
- Lupins (Lupinus polyphyllus)
- Larkspur (Delphinium)
- Red-flowering spurflower (Centranthus ruber)
- Mock coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
- Hollyhock (Alcea rosea)
- Cranesbill (Geranium)
- Coneflower (Helenium x cultorum)
- Coneflower (Rudbeckia)
Various grasses, bulbous and tuberous perennials as well as ground cover go very well with the boxwood.
Roses and boxwood - the perfect combination
The rose bed framed by a low boxwood hedge with a selection of noble or bed roses blooming in various colors is downright classic. You can enjoy such a composition for a particularly long time if you decide on varieties that bloom more often. Many types of bed and shrub roses belong in this category, but some hybrid teas are also characterized by a particularly long flowering period. If you like it more natural, you can use wild roses, which, in combination with correspondingly growing types of box, can also be used to create beautiful mixed hedges.
When putting together, pay attention to location and care needs
When choosing an attractive plant combination, you should not only pay attention to the look, but also keep an eye on the location and care needs of the different species. Suitable plant species like a sunny to semi-shady location and humus-rich, rather fresh and calcareous soil.
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Boxwood borders do not have to be boringly rectangular. Other geometric or intricate bed shapes are also interesting.