The sight of Christmas roses in the barren winter time literally floods the gratitude inside. However, the Christmas rose is not only infinitely valuable on its own, but can also become even more visually enriching with the right plant neighbors. Which ones are suitable for you?
Which plants can be combined well with the Christmas rose?
Popular planting partners for Christmas roses are blackberries, sedges, snowdrops, winter aconites, hellebore, witch hazel, purple bells and carpet juniper. These plants harmonize perfectly with the winter-blooming Christmas rose in terms of flowering time, location requirements and visual impact.
What factors should you consider when combining Christmas roses?
For a harmoniously coordinated ensemble with the Christmas rose, you should consider the following factors when choosing companion plants:
- Flower color: white, pink, red or black-red
- Flowering time: December to February
- Location requirements: partially shaded, loamy and nutrient-rich soil
- Growth height: 10 to 30 cm
The Christmas rose prefers to grow in the light shade of trees. It is therefore advisable to provide planting partners who prefer a similar location.
With its maximum height of 30 cm, the Christmas rose is small and should therefore be given a place in the foreground. Whether you combine them with equally large plants or make gradations in size is up to your preference.
Since the Christmas rose blooms in winter and shows its more withdrawn side from spring to autumn, plants that bloom at the same time or are at least present in winter with an evergreen foliage are particularly suitable for the combination.
Combine Christmas roses in the bed or in the balcony box
You can combine the Christmas rose wonderfully with signs of early spring. They show their delicate flowers at about the same time. In addition, evergreen ornamental grasses such as sedges go well with the Christmas rose, which can be embedded in the back and provide nice contrasts. If you want to spread and enjoy a particularly wintery and Christmassy flair, plant the Christmas rose in groups together with conifers and berry ornamental plants.
Popular partners to combine with the Christmas rose include:
- Mockberry
- Sedges
- Snowdrops
- Winterlings
- hellebore
- Magic Haze
- Purple bells
- carpet juniper
Combine Christmas roses with snowdrops
The combination of several Christmas roses and snowdrops has proven successful. White Christmas roses surrounded by slender snowdrops look wonderfully wintry and at the same time elegant. The plants are in a peaceful neighborhood with one another because they do not compete.
Combine Christmas rose with witch hazel
When the witch hazel reveals its yellow to red flowers in January, the Christmas rose is often already in full bloom. Together they form a lovely duet. Place the Christmas rose under the witch hazel. There it is not exposed to direct sunlight.
Combine Christmas rose with mock berry
A wonderful combination results from the Christmas rose and the mock berry. The location requirements of the two plants are very similar and the false berry is still highly decorative even in winter. The two can be planted next to each other in a balcony box (€35.00 on Amazon). When the white flowers of the Christmas rose appear, the red berries of the false berry shine next to them and decorate the balcony in a Christmas-intoxicating way.
Combine Christmas roses as a bouquet in a vase
In winter, specially picked fresh flowers are a rarity. But you can create a pretty bouquet with the Christmas rose. Together with branches of the mock berry, rose hips and a few alder fruits, you get the ultimate winter living room decoration.
- Mockberry
- Black Alder Fruits
- Fir branches
- Rosehips
- Hawthorn
