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- Framing a perennial border with roses
- Of roses and perennials
- Easy care and visually beautiful design
- Note the flower color of the roses
- Less is more
White roses fit perfectly in the pink-purple perennial border
Framing a perennial border with roses
Roses are often used as the main actor in the perennial border, even if they are not among the perennials! Learn here why roses are not perennials and how to spice up your perennial bed of roses.
Of roses and perennials
Why are the roses not among the perennials? Perennials are perennial, mostly hardy but not wintergreen, herbaceous plants that do not lignify. This last point is crucial to the difference between perennials and roses. Roses are lignified and thus belong to the woody plants.
Easy care and visually beautiful design
Roses need more care than perennials. You should keep that in mind when positioning the roses on your perennial border. There are also visual aspects.
Note the flower color of the roses
Roses are beautiful, no question. And they are available in very different shades. But do not just buy the first rose, the flower color you like, but you have the entire perennial flowerbed in your head. There are several ways to colorize a perennial rosary:
Less is more
As mentioned before, do not plant too tightly and plan the flower colors to avoid a motley mess on the perennial border. In order to prevent the sea of flowers from becoming too colorful, you can spice up your perennial bed of roses with other elements, for example by using decorative elements, large field stones, water elements or airy ornamental grass. Here you will find a selection of beautiful grasses.