The bushy growing and lushly 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 the optimal combination of lavender for you.
Which plants can be combined well with lavender?
Lavender harmonizes well with plants that also prefer dry, barren soil and sunny locations. Ideal combination partners are holy herb, allium, thyme, sage, rattles, grass lilies, cistus, peony carnations and curry herb.
Be careful when combining lavender and roses
Visually, roses and lavender harmonize perfectly with each other. However, these two types of plants have completely opposite requirements for 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 humid, moist location and plenty of fertilizer. If you plant both species together, sooner or later at least one will die.
How you can still combine lavender and roses
However, there is a way to plant lavender and roses together. However, this requires some preparation, where you should proceed as follows:
- Select the desired location for the lavender.
- Dig a pit about one meter deep.
- Fill this with a mixture of garden soil and sand, approximately in a ratio of 1:1.
- Surround the bed with field stones or similar
- Plant the lavender in there and the roses in the adjacent bed. Be sure to use the lavender
- not to water and fertilize at the same time as the roses!
Pay attention to different requirements when choosing plants
When it comes to other plants, you should first pay attention to their requirements in terms of location, soil conditions and care in order to find suitable combination partners for lavender. Like lavender, the plants should prefer dry, barren soil and a sunny location. For this reason, other Mediterranean plants are best suited, as are many rock garden plants. By the way, blue or purple lavender looks particularly pretty with red or yellow flowering plants.
Ideal planting partners for lavender
You can safely combine lavender with these plants:
- Holy Herb
- ornamental onion
- (Allium)
- Thyme
- Sage
- Rattleflowers
- Grass Lilies
- Rockroses
- Pentecost carnations
- Curry herb
However, before you start 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 & Tricks
Lavender is now available not only in lavender blue, but also in various shades of purple and blue as well as in white and pink. These different colors are wonderfully suitable for combination with each other, for example as a flat planting or as a lavender hedge.