When evergreen boxwood elegance and lavish hydrangea blooms come together, breathtaking garden images with artistic contrasts are created. Contemporary garden design has discovered boxwood and hydrangeas for picturesque arrangements in front of or behind the house. Get inspired by stylish ideas and practical tips here.
How do you design a garden with boxwood and hydrangeas?
A successful garden design with boxwood and hydrangeas includes consideration of site conditions, planting on several levels for visual depth and balanced planting. Complete the arrangement with boulders, light sources and seating for decorative accents.
How do you create a beautiful garden design with boxwood and hydrangeas?
In the perfect garden design, boxwood takes on the function of an evergreen privacy hedge, bed border and sculpture. In summer, hydrangeas with spectacular flowers dominate the appearance. For successful arrangements made of boxwood and hydrangeas, important visual and location-relevantPremises must be taken into account:
- Hydrangeas require a partially shaded location in fresh, moist, nutrient-rich soil with a pH value between 4.0 and 6.0.
- Planting on several levels creates visual depth, such as the head-high boxwood hedge as a shade provider and backdrop for hydrangeas and ground cover.
- Boulders, light sources, gabions and seats add decorative accents.
What combinations create a green and white garden picture?
Boxwood and hydrangea are the guiding principles for a stylishgreen and white garden design. White perennials, ornamental grasses and small-crowned trees provide active support. These are recommended aspirants for the planting plan:
- Ball hydrangea 'Annabelle' (Hydrangea arborescens)
- Bedding Rose 'Snowflake' (Pink)
- Aster 'White Ladies' (Aster novi-belgii)
- Buxus sempervirens for the boxwood hedge
- Buxus 'Blue Heinz' for sculptures
- Ball trumpet tree 'Nana' (Catalpa bignonioides)
- Green-white sedge (Carex)
How do I create stylish colors with boxwood and hydrangeas?
A romantic farm and country house garden thrives on lavish flowers. The art is abalanced planting without falling into the catch-all trap. In the following planting idea, evergreen boxwood is tastefully complemented by an arrangement of white, pink, hot pink, violet and blue tones:
- Pine hydrangea 'Pink Lady' (Hydrangea paniculata)
- Plate hydrangea 'Teller White' (Hydrangea macrophylla)
- Wild rose, dog rose (Rosa canina)
- Pink-flowering girl's eye (Coreopsis rosea)
- Meadow cranesbill (Geranium patrese)
- Lavender 'Hidcote Blue' (Lavandula angustifolia)
- Delphinium 'Blue Bird' (Delphinium cultorum)
Tip
Boxwood alternatives urgently wanted
Where boxwood borers and Buxus shoot dieback are rampant, the time has come for decorative boxwood alternatives. These candidates are evergreen, cut-tolerant, hardy and poisonous: Japanese holly (Ilex crenata), spindle bush 'Green Rocket' (Euonymus japonicus), honeysuckle 'Maygreen' (Lonicera nitida). A non-toxic replacement for the boxwood hedge is wintergreen dwarf sea buckthorn 'Silverstar' (Hippophae rhamnoides). If you don't mind white flowers over the dark green foliage, choose wintergreen dwarf privet 'Lodense' (Ligustrum vulgare).
