Whether square or round, as a hedge or ball – boxwood trees can be used to create beautiful accents in the garden. Since the evergreen trees retain their shiny green color even in winter, they can be easily combined with various summer green plants. Combinations of boxwoods with roses, lushly flowering perennials or plants with variegated foliage look particularly pretty.
Which plants go well with boxwoods?
Flowering perennials such as flowering sage, lupins or coneflowers, roses (especially noble and floribunda roses) as well as bulbous and tuberous perennials, ground cover and grasses go well with boxwoods. Pay attention to suitable location and care needs when combining.
Combine boxwood with perennials
By perennials, the gardener means flowering plants whose above-ground parts die in autumn and which sprout again from the roots in spring. They are available in countless colors, shapes and sizes, which can be used to create colorful summer beds as well as striking one- or two-color borders. In between, cut boxwood solitaires fit just as well as a low boxwood hedge as a border. Perennials like these go wonderfully with boxwood:
- Flower sage (Salvia nemorosa)
- Price speedwell (Veronica longifolia)
- Fig-leaved hollyhock (Alcea ficifolia)
- Large-flowered cockade flower (Gaillardia x grandiflora)
- Large-flowered girl's eye (Coreopsis grandiflora)
- Tall phlox (Phlox paniculata)
- Cushion Aster (Aster dumosus)
- Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
- Lupins (Lupinus polyphyllus)
- Delphinium (Delphinium)
- Red-flowering spurflower (Centranthus ruber)
- Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
- Hollyhock (Alcea rosea)
- Storksbill (Geranium)
- Sun Bride (Helenium x cultorum)
- Coneflower (Rudbeckia)
Various grasses, bulbous and tuberous perennials as well as ground cover also go very well with boxwood.
Roses and boxwood – the perfect combination
The rose bed framed by a low boxwood hedge with a selection of beautifully blooming noble or floribunda roses in different colors can be called downright classic. You will enjoy such a combination for a particularly long time if you choose varieties that bloom more often. Many types of bedding and shrub roses belong to this category, but some noble roses are also characterized by a particularly long flowering period. If you prefer something more natural, choose wild roses, which can be used to create beautiful mixed hedges when combined with appropriately growing box varieties.
When putting together, pay attention to location and care needs
When choosing an attractive plant combination, you should not only pay attention to the appearance, but also keep an eye on the location and care needs of the different species. Suitable plant species like a sunny to partially shaded location as well as a humus-rich, rather fresh and calcareous soil.
Tip
Boxwood borders do not have to be boringly rectangular. Other geometric or intricate bed shapes are also interesting.