They climb ambitiously and shower their viewers with fabulously beautiful flowers all summer long. Climbing roses are a visual stunner on their own. However, they can be shown off even more with the right companion plants.
Which plants go well with climbing roses?
When combining climbing roses, shallow-rooted perennials, ornamental grasses and gentle climbing plants such as clematis, common wine or purple love grass are suitable. What is important is the harmony of flower color, flowering time and location requirements of both plant species.
What factors should you consider when combining climbing roses?
In order not to hinder the growth of the climbing roses and to emphasize their appearance, the following factors should be taken into account in your considerations:
- Flower color: white, yellow, apricot, pink, red or violet
- Flowering time: June to October (more often flowering varieties)
- Location requirements: sunny, deep and nutrient-rich soil
- Growth height: up to 5 m
Many climbing rose varieties produce a variety of spectacular flowers. It is therefore best to combine the corresponding climbing rose with plants that do not steal the show and harmonize with it in color.
Since climbing roses require a full sun location and nutrient-rich soil, the chosen planting partners should also be able to cope with this.
Also consider the height of the respective climbing rose and coordinate the companions accordingly.
Combine climbing roses on trellises or house facades
The perfect partners for climbing roses have shallow roots and therefore do not represent competition. Climbing roses therefore do not get along well with most trees, as they often carve out a wide territory underground. However, shallow-rooted perennials, ornamental grasses and other gentle climbing plants are wonderfully suitable for a combination. It is important to find companion plants that make the overall picture appear balanced and not overloaded.
Optimal planting partners for climbing roses are, for example:
- Clematis
- Real wine
- Honeysuckle
- Asters
- woman's coat
- larkspur
- Bluebells
- Ornamental grasses such as purple lovegrass and pennisetum
Combine climbing rose with clematis
A clematis and a climbing rose – that is the ultimate combination. The two climbing plants are in harmony with each other and this is not only visible visually. They also agree on the location. Although the clematis snakes its way up the climbing rose, this doesn't bother the climbing rose much because the clematis does not put any pressure on it in the root area.
Combine climbing rose with purple love grass
You can stage the climbing rose with the purple love grass in an absolutely romantic way. The ornamental grass gives particularly red and white blooming climbing roses a magical expression. The reason is its purple flower spikes, which flourish around the lower part of the climbing rose from summer to autumn.
Combine climbing rose with delphinium
You can use typically blue-flowering delphiniums decoratively to make climbing roses shine even more intensely. Combine blue delphiniums with yellow or orange climbing roses and the contrast will be overwhelming. Together with white climbing roses, the overall impression is rather cool, which provides a visual refreshment in particularly hot locations.
Combine climbing roses as a bouquet in the vase
Long-shooting climbing roses are good for cutting in vases. They go well with numerous other summer flowers, which in the best case have completely different inflorescences and flower shapes. For example, the ornamental sage is very pretty with climbing roses, but also delphiniums, ornamental foliage plants and cloudy-looking gypsophila round off a climbing rose bouquet beautifully.
- larkspur
- Gypsophila
- Phlox
- Eucalyptus
- woman's coat
- ornamental sage
