Boxwood and lavender spark ideas for creative garden design. Beautiful plant partners are added to create a magnificent bed that attracts everyone's attention. Let these tips inspire you for imaginative plant combinations with boxwood and lavender.
Which plants go well with boxwood and lavender?
Suitable planting partners for boxwood and lavender are roses, perennials and ornamental grasses such as cranesbills, phloxes and sedges. European holly, Japanese holly, box-leaved barberry, dwarf yew and dwarf privet are suitable as boxwood replacements.
What goes well with boxwood and lavender?
Roses go best with boxwood and lavender. The royal trees harmonize perfectly with a border of evergreen boxwood and blue lavender flowers. Ideally, you should combine ground cover roses, floribunda roses, shrub roses and standard roses in several tiers, framed by a boxwood hedge and lavender. A distance of 30 cm to the roses takes into account the different requirements of the floral protagonists.
The stylish garden design made of boxwood and lavender is rounded off withperennialsandornamental grasses, such as lavishly blooming cranesbill (geranium), opulent flame flowers (Phlox) and delicate sedges (Carex).
Which boxwood substitute goes well with lavender?
A good boxwood substitute is the evergreenEuropean holly(Ilex aquifolium 'Hedging Dwarf') and theJapanese holly (Ilex crenata ' Stokes'). The trees look very similar to a box tree, but are immune to box tree borers and box tree shoot dieback. These boxwood alternatives also go well with lavender:
- Box-leaved barberry (Berberis buxifolia)
- Dwarf Yew 'Renkes Kleiner Grüner' (Taxus baccata)
- Honeysuckle 'Maygrün' (Lonicera nitida)
- Dwarf ligustrum (Ligustrum vulgare)
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Green-white-blue planting idea with boxwood and lavender
When boxwood and lavender combine with white flower beauties in the bed, a picturesque garden picture is created. Buxus sempervirens 'Herrenhausen' serves as the external border. Lavender 'Hidcote Blue' (Lavandula angustifolia) acts as an inner border. In the green-blue frame, ball hydrangea 'Annabelle' (Hydrangea arborescens), floribunda rose 'Snowflake' (Rosa) and aster 'White Ladys' (Aster novi-belgii) shine with their white flowers. Buxus 'Blue Heinz' sets decorative accents as a spherical sculpture, whose round shape is reflected in the spherical trumpet tree 'Nana' (Catalpa bignonioides).