Rose companion plants

Get ready to stop and smell the roses! Read on and discover seven companion plants to grow alongside roses in the garden.

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Knock Out roses are popular flowers used in landscape designs. Learn the different excellent companions for Knockout Roses for an enhanced stunning display.

Roses are a well-known garden staple because they're romantic, whimsical, sweetly scented, and a classic addition to any landscape or cut-flower arrangement. Whether your garden style is cottage, eclectic, modern, or all of the above, what you plant with your roses can impact how they look in the overall landscape. Enhance your rose garden with these perennials, shrubs, and grasses that require similar light levels, soil, and other growing conditions as roses

Companion plants for Roses

Love roses but want to boost their beauty?

Lavender makes an excellent companion for Mediterranean herbs such as rosemary, sage and thyme, but also with other perennials such as iris and rose.

Many of us gardeners plan our gardens around our roses. I grow nearly thirty roses, mostly David Austin's English roses, so I thought I'd share some of the companion plants that grow well with them. Above is a picture of 'Eglantyne' (this large bush is actually three plants growing closely together, as Austin recommends), surrounded by various perennials, shrubs and trees. This vignette will look better as the plants continue to mature and fill in the bare ground. You can see 'Walker's Low'…

Discover the best companion plants for roses and how they can promote healthy growth, repel pests, and attract beneficial insects.

I will definitely not say which colors do or do not work together, nor what anyone should or should not plant with roses. Color choices are ...