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- Plant roses with summer flowers and herbs
- Roses need air and space
- Herbs keep roses healthy
- Suitable summer flowers for socializing with roses
- Tips
Roses and lavender go well together
Plant roses with summer flowers and herbs
The rose bed is particularly interesting when you put the "Queen of Flowers" in the right light with the help of color-coordinated bulb and summer flowers. Herbs not only have a decorative, but also a protective effect. Ideally, the companion plants further enhance the beauty of the rose by aesthetically emphasizing the colors and shapes of the rose.
Roses need air and space
Although roses love society and can be wonderfully combined with various summer and bulb flowers, with perennials, woody plants, vines and herbs. However, you should make sure that you do not directly plant the roses. Instead, the companion plants must be planted at a sufficient distance, because roses need light and air and love open soils. If the planting is too cramped, the roses are weakened and thus an infection with fungal diseases or a pest infestation. When composing the bed, also make sure that the roses can not be overgrown by vigorous companion plants. So it is particularly important to be careful with Clematis vitalba and Clematis montana, because these species of woody shrubs proliferate too much and could completely suppress roses.
Herbs keep roses healthy
Herbs and roses have been planted together in the medieval monastery gardens, because many herbs have a positive influence on the delicate flowers: They naturally keep pathogens and pests away. Lavender, sage and thyme, however, do not like the nutrient-rich soil of the roses. Therefore, plant them at a distance of about 50 centimeters to the pond and litter the earth with plenty of sand. Other rose pase herbs include fennel and valerian, holy herb, wormwood and various Allium species.
Suitable summer flowers for socializing with roses
With one or two-year-old summer flowers, you can design light, romantic flowerbeds and experiment to your heart's content. If you do not like the compilation, sow other flowers in the next year. Mauves, poppies and tender maidens in the green will find a grateful spot in each rose bed. The aspiring flower buds of the foxglove set a striking contrast to the rather rounded flower heads of the roses. Cosmeen, marigolds, ornamental tobacco, mug moths, zinnias, snapdragons and nasturtiums decorate your garden in colorful cottage garden colors.
Tips
Roses should always play the main role in a mixed bed, all other plants only serve as a "decorative accessory". For example, you prefer to put strong-growing rose bushes in the background, in order to put lower flowers or shrubs in between or in front of them - the accompanying plants serve as a kind of framing.