Roses are often used as the main protagonist in the perennial bed, even if they are not perennials! Find out here why roses are not perennials and how you can spice up your perennial bed with roses.
How do you make a perennial bed attractive with roses?
To make a perennial bed with roses attractive, plant roses in the middle of the bed, pay attention to hardy varieties, flower colors and leave enough space between the plants. Use decorative elements, ornamental grasses or stones as additional accents.
Of roses and perennials
Why aren't roses considered perennials? Perennials are perennial, mostly hardy but not wintergreen, herbaceous plants that do not become woody. This last point is crucial to the difference between perennials and roses. Roses are woody and are therefore woody plants.
Easy to care for and visually beautiful
Roses need more care than perennials. You should keep this in mind when positioning the roses on your perennial bed. There are also optical aspects.
- Roses grow quite tall and bloom persistently; Therefore they are ideal for the middle of the bed.
- The roses should be easily accessible so that you can easily cut them back in the spring and occasionally cut a few roses for the vase in the summer.
- When buying roses, make sure that they are well hardy.
- Don't plant roses and perennials densely and colorfully mixed up on your perennial bed. Give every plant space to work and develop.
- Note the flower color!
Note the flower color of the roses
Roses are beautiful, no question. And they come in very different color shades. But don't just buy the first rose whose flower color you like, but think about the entire herbaceous bed. There are several options for color design of a perennial rose bed:
- Perennial beds where one or two flower colors dominate are particularly beautiful. -The total dominance of one color nuance, for example pink, is also conceivable. Buy perennials and roses in different shades of pink and create a princess-like perennial bed. If you're not into pink, you can opt for shades of red or yellow.
- If you like strong, bright colors, you can design your perennial rose bed with orange, red and yellow flowering perennials and roses.
Less is more
As I said, don't plant too densely and plan the flower colors to avoid a colorful tangle on the perennial bed. To prevent the sea of flowers from becoming too colorful, you can spice up your perennial bed with roses with other elements, for example by using decorative elements, large field stones, water elements or airy ornamental grass. Here you will find a selection of beautiful grasses.
