Looking at sunflowers quickly makes us smile. These flowers, which not only look beautiful in the vase, but also in the garden and pot, can be placed impressively in the spotlight or made into valuable players in the midst of other plants.
How to combine sunflowers?
Sunflowers can be combined in the garden with plants such as Indian nettles, summer daisies, cosmos, zinnias, girl's eye, dahlias, yellow coneflowers and autumn anemones. In the vase, dahlias, gladioli, gerberas, quaking grass, fir greens, eucalyptus and pampas grass go well with sunflowers.
What factors should you consider when combining sunflowers?
The charisma of sunflowers can suffer from combinations with unsuitable plants. Therefore, consider the following characteristics and requirements of sunflowers in advance:
- Flower color: yellow, orange, red, brown or bronze
- Flowering time: End of June to October
- Location requirements: sunny and protected, nutrient-rich and moist soil
- Growth height: up to 300 cm
Most sunflowers don't bloom until mid-summer. But there are also specimens that sooner or later show off their flowers. Please note the respective flowering times if you want to combine your sunflowers.
Sunflowers value nutrient-rich soil and a sunny location. Therefore, choose companion plants for them that suit these site requirements.
Since sunflowers can grow to towering heights, they often overshadow smaller plants. It is best to combine the sunflowers with plants that harmonize with their size or create targeted size contrasts.
Combine sunflowers in the bed or in the pot
In the bed, sunflowers are a feast for the eyes and are happy to take the scepter in their hands. Create combinations in which the sunflower contrasts with other perennials, for example. It is also advisable to surround it with plants that beautify it underneath and cover it with flowers, while it in turn produces its flowers high up.
You can get pretty combinations with:
- Indian nettles
- Summer daisies
- Cosmeen
- Zinnias
- Girl's Eye
- Dahlias
- Yellow Coneflower
- Autumn Anemones
Combine sunflowers with cosmos
Cosmoses can wonderfully balance out the stately, robust and sometimes austere appearance of sunflowers. While the sunflowers - ideally in groups - stick straight up, the cosmos sway delicately in the breeze and bring lightness and dynamism to the interaction.
Combine sunflowers with summer daisies
The summer daisies match the sunflowers both visually and in terms of their location requirements. White summer daisies surround the growing sunflowers from below, reflecting them in a lovely miniaturized way.
Combine sunflowers with dahlias
Dahlias are also ideal planting partners for sunflowers. Sunflowers visually complement the dahlias with their bright yellow color and flower shape. The two also fit together in terms of location. In addition, dahlias, which are at risk of snapping due to their heavy flower heads, benefit from the sunflowers' slipstream.
Combine sunflowers as a bouquet in the vase
In the vase, sunflowers create a summer atmosphere like no other plant can. Since they want to set the tone, plants that stay in the background or emphasize the sunflower flowers are suitable. For example, grasses and shoots of conifers are well suited to contrasting the colors of sunflowers.
- Dahlias
- Gladiolus
- Gerbera
- Quickgrass
- Fir green
- Eucalyptus
- Pampas grass
