With their strictly upright and narrow growth, hollyhocks clearly require a balance that loosens them up. However, which plants can be considered and what is fundamentally important when combining hollyhocks, also known as hollyhocks?
Which plants are best combined with hollyhocks?
Summer bloomers such as delphiniums, lupins, sunflowers, monkshood, roses, lady's mantle, daisies, yarrow and also cornflowers go well with hollyhocks. These plants harmonize with hollyhocks in terms of flowering time, location requirements and aesthetic aspect.
What factors should you consider when combining hollyhocks?
When combining hollyhocks, preliminary considerations determine whether the result is successful. To do this, you should consider the following factors:
- Flower color: white, yellow, apricot, pink, red, violet or purple-black
- Flowering time: July to October
- Location requirements: sunny and sheltered from the wind, permeable and nutrient-rich soil
- Growth height: up to 250 cm
Hollyhocks are mid-summer to fall bloomers. In the best case scenario, combine them with plants that are in bloom at around the same time to create a contrasting or harmonious interaction.
It is also important that the hollyhock planting partners can cope with similar site conditions.
Hollyhocks like to reach high and tower over all the other plants in their area. Consider this when looking for suitable companion plants.
Combine hollyhocks in beds or in pots
Hollyhocks are considered typical cottage garden plants and look attractive in beds when placed in the background. This is advisable because their size makes them look most beautiful when placed there. Sun-loving perennials and annual summer bloomers are best suited to them. You're in the right place when combining both low plants and those that reach a similar height.
The following specimens fit in extremely nicely in the neighborhood of hollyhocks:
- Monkshood
- Roses
- woman's coat
- Daisies
- Lupins
- larkspur
- Yarrow
- Sunflowers
Combine hollyhocks with delphiniums
The delphinium is able to contrast the hollyhock from a lower vantage point. Depending on your taste, you can present blue-violet delphiniums decoratively with pink, pink, yellow or white hollyhocks in the bed.
Combine hollyhock with lupine
As a summer bloomer, the lupine also goes wonderfully with the hollyhock. With its candle-like inflorescences and small butterfly flowers, it forms a striking contrast to the cupped flowers of hollyhocks. In addition, it has similar location requirements. Whether a colorful mix or a tone-on-tone composition – create the combination according to your preference.
Combine hollyhock with sunflower
Two partners made for each other are the hollyhock and the sunflower. Not only do they like to be pampered by the sun, they both like to tower high up. High up they stand at eye level and their visual interaction is quite enchanting.
Combine hollyhocks as a bouquet in a vase
Hollyhocks are even suitable as cut flowers, which very few people know. They even last well in the vase for a week. But when left alone, the bouquet quickly looks boring, which is why a combination with other flowers is recommended. For example, create a bouquet of pink hollyhocks, blue cornflowers and blue-violet delphiniums. The blue of the flowers is expressed in an intoxicating way in the awareness of the hollyhocks.
- larkspur
- Roses
- Mallow
- Bellflower
- woman's coat
- Cornflower
- Lupine
