The bushy growing and lush flowering lavender is a feast for the eyes on its own, but in combination with other, contrasting colored plants it becomes a real feast for the eyes. For a colorful summer, we have collected some tips for you on the optimal combination of lavender.

Be careful when combining lavender and roses

Roses and lavender harmonize perfectly with each other. However, these two plant species have completely opposite demands on the soil and care, which is why they are actually not compatible with each other. Lavender loves dry, poor soil and should not be fertilized or watered too often. Roses, on the other hand, need a humus-rich, moist location and plenty of fertilizer. If you plant both species together, sooner or later at least one will die.

How you can still socialize lavender and roses

However, there is a way to plant lavender and roses together. However, this requires some preparation, whereby you should proceed as follows:

  • Select the desired location for the lavender.
  • Dig a pit about a meter deep.
  • Fill them with a mixture of garden soil and sand in a ratio of about 1:1.
  • Surround the bed with field stones or similar.
  • In there you plant the lavender, the roses in the adjacent bed. Pay attention to the lavender
  • not to water and fertilize at the same time as the roses!

When choosing plants, pay attention to different requirements

With other plants, too, you should first of all pay attention to their requirements in terms of location, soil conditions and care in order to find suitable combination partners for the lavender. Like lavender, the plants should prefer dry and barren soil and a sunny location. For this reason, other Mediterranean plants are best suited, as are many rock garden plants. Incidentally, blue or purple lavender looks particularly pretty with red or yellow flowering plants.

Ideal plant partners for lavender

You can safely combine lavender with these plants:

  • sacred herb
  • ornamental onion
  • (allium)
  • thyme
  • sage
  • rattle flowers
  • grass lilies
  • cistus
  • peony carnations
  • curry herb

However, before you get down to concrete planning, you should first clarify the basic design. Some combinations (e.g. classic English with ornamental grasses) are particularly suitable for a gravel garden, others for a Mediterranean aromatic garden (e.g. herbs such as thyme, sage, oregano, etc.).

tips and tricks

Lavender is now not only available in lavender blue, but also in various shades of violet and blue, as well as in white and pink. These different colors are wonderful for a combination with each other, for example as a flat planting or as a lavender hedge.

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