The Busy Lieschen is full of flowers all summer and into autumn and thus lives up to its name. Below you will find out how you can cleverly put it in the spotlight with other plants and what is worth paying attention to.
Which plants can you combine the Busy Lieschen with?
The Busy Lieschen can be easily combined with other shade-loving plants such as hostas, shield ferns, hydrangeas, petunias, geraniums, begonias or fuchsias. Pay attention to harmonious color play and similar location requirements.
What factors should you consider when combining the Busy Lieschen?
Give importance to the following factors when looking for suitable companion plants for the Busy Lieschen:
- Flower color: white, pink, red or violet, rarely orange
- Flowering time: May to October
- Location requirements: Partly shaded to shady, humus-rich and slightly acidic soil
- Growth height: up to 40 cm
The wide range of flower colors that the busy Lieschen can produce makes it flexible in use and easy to combine with other flowering plants. However, make sure that the color play is harmonious.
In order to beautifully combine the Busy Lieschen throughout its entire flowering period, it is advisable to combine it with plants that are also in flower all summer long.
When combining the Busy Lieschen, be sure to take into account his desire for a more shady location. It doesn't go well with plants that love the sun.
Combine busy Lieschen in the bed
Due to its low height, the busy Lieschen becomes a lovely ground cover in the bed and particularly decorates the front area. Here it can come into its own fantastically in association with other low flowering plants. In addition, shade-hungry grasses and leafy perennials also go well with the busy Lieschen.
Excellent planting partners for the busy Lieschen include:
- Yellow juggler flower
- horn violets
- Ornamental grasses such as pennisetum and sedges
- Purple bells
- Funkia
- Ivy
- hydrangeas
- Shield fern
Combine busy Lieschen with hosta
Together with white variegated hostas, for example, busy lilies, which come with white flowers, can provide bright accents in dark areas of the garden bed. The two plants continue to go well together, as they like to grow away from the sun and typically love humus-rich and slightly acidic forest soils.
Combine busy Lizzie with shield fern
The composition of the busy lizard and the shield fern can become a fiery combination. Plant a red-flowering variety of Busy Lieschen in front of a strong green shield fern. The resulting complementary contrast is absolutely spectacular and pleases the eye.
Combine busy Lizzie with hydrangea
The hydrangea and the busy Lieschen form a fabulously beautiful duo in the bed. At first glance they are both very different. But when you look closer you see a certain similarity. The foliage of the Busy Lieschen matches that of the hydrangea. The flowers also look like a large format of the delicate individual flowers of the hydrangea. There is agreement regarding the location requirements.
Combine busy Lizzie in the pot or in the balcony box
The busy Lieschen is particularly popular for planting in balcony boxes and pots. Feel free to let it express itself colorfully with its companion plants and combine different colors with each other. For example, a combination of red busy lizards, white petunias and purple geraniums in the balcony box looks wonderful.
- Petunias
- Geraniums
- Lobelias
- Begonias
- Fuchsias
- Edellieschen
