If you want evergreen hedges around beds and paths that can easily tolerate topiary, then boxwood is the right choice. But with what and how can this plant be best combined?
Which plants can be combined well with boxwood?
Boxwood harmonizes perfectly with plants such as pipe grass, miscanthus, flowering sage, girl's eye, lupine, coneflower or delphinium. Begonias, snowflake flowers and ivy are ideal companion plants in pots. These combinations underline the simple appearance of boxwood.
What factors should you consider when combining boxwood?
In order not to degrade the elegant and simple appearance of boxwood, but to underline it, you should consider these factors when combining:
- Foliage color: strong green (evergreen)
- Location requirements: sunny to partially shaded, humus and calcareous soil
- Growth height: up to 4, 50 m
Thanks to the low growth rate and good pruning tolerance, the size of the boxwood is easy to calculate. Only after decades does it rise several meters high without being cut. This means you can combine it with numerous other plants without having to pay much attention to the height.
Choose companion plants that, like the boxwood, prefer a sunny to partially shaded location. But be careful: plants that thrive in acidic soil are not suitable combination partners.
The unobtrusive foliage color of the boxwood matches most other plants. The evergreen foliage is particularly valuable in the vicinity of deciduous plants that look bare in winter.
Combine boxwood in the bed
In the bed, the boxwood is often used for framing, dividing and structuring. It can add shape and a touch of nobility to numerous perennials and groundcovers in its vicinity. Colorful flowering plants look excellent next to it, as it has barely noticeable flowers, but rather impresses with its foliage. Grasses also harmonize with the boxwood.
The following are ideal for boxwood:
- Grasses such as moss grass, miscanthus, feather grass and blue fescue
- Bedding, noble and shrub roses
- Flower Sage
- High Flame Flower
- Girl's Eye
- Lupins
- Coneflower
Combine boxwood with floribunda roses
Boxwood and roses – that is the ultimate combination. The boxwood is usually used as a bed border. With its green frame, it increases the expressiveness of the roses in its center. All types of roses suit him. You can vary the elegant overall appearance as required by cutting the boxwood topiary.
Combine boxwood with delphiniums
The delphinium receives a fine touch when placed next to it or framed by the boxwood in the bed. You can use both blue and white delphiniums for the combination. In principle, the two get along well with each other because they have similar location requirements and the delphinium is happy about the slight shading of the boxwood at its base.
Combine boxwood in the pot
Planted in a pot, the boxwood is decoratively enhanced when it is joined by companion plants. There is usually an empty space between the tree and the edge of the container in which small perennials and ground covers can be inserted.
Perfect combination partners for the boxwood in the pot are, for example:
- Snowflake flowers
- Begonias
- Ivy
Combine boxwood with begonia
For this combination, you should place the pot in a partially shaded place. Otherwise the begonias will have a hard time. The boxwood, for example, looks formidable as a ball in the middle of the pot if white or red begonias are planted around it.