Flower spikes sparkling like diamonds in the sunlight: With its lightness and elegant expression, diamond grass brings attractive accents to the garden. Since numerous plants can benefit from its presence, combinations with it are recommended.
Which plants can I combine with diamond grass?
Suitable plants for combinations with diamond grass are candlesticks, roses, phlox, autumn asters, autumn anemones and Patagonian verbena. These plants share similar location requirements and harmonize visually with their color and flowering time.
What factors should you consider when combining diamond grass?
In order to best display the diamond grass in all its splendor, the following factors should be taken into account when planning:
- Flower color: pink to silver
- Flowering time: August to September
- Location requirements: sunny, nutrient and humus-rich soil
- Growth height: up to 120 cm
With its medium-high growth habit, diamond grass fits perfectly into beds. Ideally, you should showcase it with smaller or similarly tall companion plants. Sublime plants in its neighborhood usually seem too brusque and intrusive.
For diamond grass combination partners, make sure that they can cope with a sunny location. You should also accept nutrient-rich soil.
Since diamond grass looks most impressive when it is in bloom, it is recommended to combine it with summer-flowering plants. All plants are suitable, as the flower color of diamond grass is rather subtle.
Combine diamond grass in the bed or in the bucket
You can take advantage of the structuring characteristics of diamond grass by combining it with perennials that lack a certain formation and naturalness. The diamond grass appears particularly breathtaking with colorful perennials. It can be in their background, but also next to them. Violet and pink flowers in particular look impressively radiant in combination with the diamond grass.
Companion plants that are ideal for coexistence with diamond grass include:
- Magnificent candles
- Roses
- Phlox
- Autumn Star
- Autumn Anemones
- Patagonian Verbena
Combine diamond grass with a magnificent candle
The harmonious overall picture that the diamond grass and the phlox create is downright heartwarming. Combined planting partners could hardly seem more fragile and airy and loose. White flowering phlox goes best with diamond grass. They both require a similar location and show their flowers at the same time.
Combine diamond grass with phlox
The flowers of the Phlox are extremely compact and richly planted on the inflorescence. The diamond grass is able to loosen up this face and delicately surround it with its flower spikes. Red and pink phlox combine wonderfully with diamond grass. Please note, however, that the phlox should be planted either in front of or behind the diamond grass, depending on its height.
Combine diamond grass with purple coneflower
Echinacea produces a we alth of flowers in late summer. In order to combine this with a bit of solace and filigree, the diamond grass is planted directly behind it. Problems usually do not arise with this combination, as both plants love the sun and are peaceful towards their neighbors.
Combine diamond grass as a bouquet in the vase
Diamond grass will become an integral part of all bouquets once you learn to love it. It gives lightness, delicacy and elegance to heavy flower heads. Simply enrich a bouquet of dahlias, roses, hydrangeas or other late summer flowers with a few stalks of diamond grass.
- Dahlias
- Roses
- Autumn Star
- Vervain
- Star Umbel
- hydrangeas
- Purple Coneflower
