Phlox delights in the garden from July to September with its numerous beautiful flowers. It comes into its own when combined with suitable plants. Below you will find out which planting partners are suitable and what you should pay attention to when combining them.
Which plants go well with phlox in garden design?
To successfully combine phlox, choose planting partners with similar flowering times, location requirements and suitable growth height. Popular combinations include lavender, hydrangeas, coneflowers or grasses such as pipe grass and riding grass, which create a harmonious color and structure.
What factors should you consider when combining phlox?
In order to combine Phlox beautifully, it is important to consider the following factors when planning:
- Flower color: white, pink, violet, rarely red or yellow
- Flowering time: July to September (summer phlox)
- Site requirements: Sunny, sandy to loamy soil
- Growth height: up to 110 cm
The height and type of your phlox variety is a decisive factor for successful combinations: upholstered phlox is often planted alone or different colored varieties of upholstered phlox are combined with each other, while tall phlox combine well with grasses, other perennials or even small shrubs leaves.
Furthermore, you should pay attention to the flower color and choose similar flower colors of the companion plants to create a harmonious picture or deliberately choose contrasting colors to create a colorful garden.
It makes sense to choose planting partners with a similar flowering period and similar location requirements.
Combine Phlox in the bed or in the bucket
Phlox in the bed or in the pot can be combined with many different plants. On the one hand, various sweet grasses such as pipe grass go well with phlox, and on the other hand, phlox can also be combined with flowering plants that bloom in a similar color. This is how you create a beautiful, pastel-colored, white or blue sea of flowers.
The following are ideal for Phlox:
- Pipegrass
- Riding grass
- Lavender
- Coneflower
- hydrangeas
- Blue Neckwort
Combine Phlox with Lavender
Purple flowering plants go well with Phlox. Lavender is therefore ideal as a planting partner. Since lavender only grows to around 60 cm high, it should be combined with less tall phlox, such as forest phlox, or planted in front of the phlox. Since lavender, like summer phlox, blooms in summer, you can look forward to a beautiful sea of purple flowers.
Combine Phlox with Hydrangeas
With a growth height of up to 120cm, a flowering period from June to August and similar location requirements, hydrangeas are the ideal companion plant for phlox. Combine blue, pink or purple flowering hydrangeas with tall summer phlox in white, pink or purple. If you like it classy, you can also design your bed entirely in white with white-flowering phlox and the Annabelle hydrangea.
Combine phlox with sun hat
The sun-loving coneflower also goes perfectly with phlox, especially the pink-flowering variety 'Primadonna' pink. Like Phlox, coneflower likes slightly sandy soil and a location in full sun.
Combine phlox as a bouquet in a vase
Phlox is wonderful as a cut flower and can be combined as a bouquet with other pastel or white flowers. Combinations with pink or white blooming roses and ornamental onions look elegant. You can round off the bouquet with wild garlic leaves or other large, green leaves.
- Roses
- ornamental onion
- Wild garlic
- Yarrow
- Gypsophila
- summer-blooming bluebells, e.g. ball-bellflower
- Blue Neckwort
