When you think summer is almost over, the flowering season for the bearded flower begins. With its almost glittering flowers, it beautifully enhances gardens, terraces and even balconies. It can do this especially in combination with other plants
Which plants can you combine the bearded flower with?
The bearded flower can be perfectly combined with plants such as lavender, roses, golden cinquefoil, riding grass or panicle hydrangeas. Pay attention to similar location requirements, flowering times and contrasts in flower colors for a harmonious overall picture.
What factors should you consider when combining the beard flower?
When combining the beard flower, consider the following factors to ultimately achieve visibly visual enjoyment:
- Flower color: light pink, violet, light blue or dark blue
- Flowering time: August to October
- Location requirements: sunny, rather nutrient-poor and well-drained soil
- Growth height: up to 100 cm
Since the beard flower reaches a maximum height of one meter, it is suitable for both the foreground and the middle area in the bed. Your companion plants can either be larger and stand behind her, be equally large and find a place right next to her, or cover her flat in the root area.
Suitable combination partners are those who also prefer a sunny location and value well-drained soil that is never exposed to waterlogging.
You can combine the bearded flower with plants that bloom in early summer, because at this time the bearded flower already has an attractive foliage. Furthermore, it looks fantastic next to plants that are in flower at the same time as it.
Combine bearded flowers in the bed or in the pot
Medium to tall grasses, such as riding grass, fit in well in the background of the beard flower. Cushion perennials, on the other hand, are ideal for the foreground or base of the beard flower. This is especially true if they have flowers that contrast with those of the bearded flower. Small flowering trees such as the blue rue harmonize approximately at eye level with the beard flower.
The following candidates, among others, go perfectly with the beard flower:
- Lavender
- Roses
- Riding grass
- panicle hydrangeas
- Storksbill
- Golden cinquefoil
- High Stonecrop
- Blue Diamond
Combine beard flower with lavender
Both the beard flower and the lavender love a sunny and rather dry location. Visually, this combination is particularly impressive if you place a white-flowering lavender next to the beard flower. The white forms an unmistakable contrast to the typical blue to blue-violet of the bearded flower. In addition, a certain balance is created due to the different inflorescences.
Combine beard flower with roses
The combination of roses and bearded flowers is extremely popular. But be careful: the roses need enough space for themselves. Therefore, keep a distance of around one meter between these planting partners. Small shrub and bed roses are particularly suitable for this combination. To create contrast, white, yellow, red or pink roses should be combined with blue bearded flowers.
Combine bearded flower with golden cinquefoil
The bright yellow of the golden cinquefoil matches the bearded flower. They also have similar location requirements, as the golden cinquefoil can also handle dry soil and loves lots of sunshine. Plant the small-growing golden cinquefoil as a ground cover in front of the bearded flower.
Combine bearded flowers as a bouquet in a vase
As a cut flower, the bearded flower harmonizes with other late summer and autumn flowers. For example, create a bouquet of blue bearded flowers, yellow roses and white autumn daisies. A little gypsophila gives the bouquet that certain something.
- Roses
- Sunflowers
- Autumn daisies
- Gypsophila
- Chrysanthemums
