It towers high up and presents us with its perfectly shaped flower ball as if on a silver platter. The ornamental onion lives up to its name and actually decorates the place where it can be found. But how can you combine it?
Which plants can ornamental garlic be combined with?
Ornamental onions can be combined in beds or containers with floribunda roses, sedum, ornamental sage, catnip, peonies, cranesbill or ornamental grasses such as feather grass, pennisetum grass and blue fescue. When combining, pay attention to flower color, flowering time, location requirements and plant height.
What factors should you consider when combining ornamental onions?
You should not be completely free when combining the ornamental leek, as this can lead to disadvantages. The following aspects should therefore be taken into account:
- Flower color: violet, white or pink, less often red, blue or yellow
- Flowering time: May to September
- Site requirements: sunny, dry and well-drained soil
- Growth height: up to 150 cm
Most types of ornamental allium reveal their flower balls to us from May to June. However, there are also specimens that bloom again in summer. Find out about combination partners before planting and combine the ornamental onion with plants that bloom at the same time.
Since the ornamental onion feels most comfortable in a sunny location on a permeable substrate, its companion plants should not conflict with this, but should have similar requirements.
Depending on the type, the ornamental onion is only hand-high. But he can also be on an equal footing with us. Take the height into account when combining.
Combine ornamental onions in the bed or in the bucket
Ornamental onions are often combined with medium-tall perennials and roses. But basically you should pay attention to the size of your ornamental onion. Is it one of the lower specimens? Then choose low companion plants to combine. If, on the other hand, it is a gigantic ornamental onion, large perennials, but also trees such as shrub peonies, go well with it. Either way – with ornamental garlic you give your planting partners a certain naturalness.
The following plants harmonize very attractively with the ornamental onion:
- Flower roses
- Sedum
- ornamental sage
- Catnip
- Peonies
- Storksbill
- Ornamental grasses such as feather grass, pennisetum and blue fescue
Combine ornamental garlic with catnip
Both catnip and allium like a full sun location on a rather dry substrate. They both enter their bloom at about the same time and are in wonderful harmony with each other. Their flower shapes contrast, which creates tension. But their flower colors match each other perfectly.
Combine ornamental onions with peony
Peonies, like alliums, come to life in early summer. Place the ornamental onions separately in front of the peonies and create either a tone-on-tone composition or a color contrast. For example, an interplay of blue-violet ornamental garlic and yellow peonies is impressive.
Combine ornamental garlic with cranesbill
The crane's beak surrounds the ornamental onion almost submissively. It is able to nicely cover the lower area of the ornamental onion. Its delicate flower shells are the icing on the cake, as they create lovely accents in the presence of the ornamental onion.
Combine ornamental onions as a bouquet in the vase
The ornamental onion brings extravagance to the bouquet. You can emphasize its straight shape and its pomp in an exciting way by adding flowers that have smaller flowers and delicately surround the flower balls of the ornamental onion. The delphinium is precisely chosen for this. But other early summer flowers such as red tulips, yellow ranunculus or pink peonies also look fantastic in an arrangement with the ornamental onion.
- Tulips
- Ranunculus
- larkspur
- Peonies
- Freesias
