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Assorted hostas with their distinctive leaf patterns in a shaded garden cornerCombinaciones de plantas

Combining hostas: the best companions for shaded corners

Hostas are essential in shade, but a monoculture is dull. Learn how to pair hostas with ferns, hellebores and other foliage plants for a lush, four-season shadow border.

5 min
Classic roses with blue salvias in a full, textured garden borderCombinaciones de plantas

Combining salvias with roses: the classic cottage border everyone loves

Roses without underplanting look bare-legged. Salvia is the perfect partner: blue-purple flowers, fine foliage, and they grow together like friends. This is the English border you've always wanted.

5 min
Pink sedum with golden and purple ornamental grasses in a dry summer borderCombinaciones de plantas

Combining sedums with grasses: drought-hardy year-round beauty

Sedums and grasses are made for each other: both minimal care, both four-season structure, both thrive in poor soil. This is the drought-loving border that asks nothing but gives everything.

5 min
White panicle hydrangeas gradually turning pink in a late-summer border with grassesCombinaciones de plantas

Combining panicle hydrangeas: borders that shine late in the season

Panicle hydrangeas bloom August to November when many gardens are fading. Combine them with late-blooming perennials, grasses and colourful shrubs for a garden that truly explodes in autumn.

5 min
Orange-yellow rudbeckias with golden and red ornamental grasses in a prairie-like borderCombinaciones de plantas

Combining rudbeckias with grasses: the prairie look for late summer from July to October

Rudbeckia (black-eyed Susan) and ornamental grasses are the foundation of the prairie border: simple, low-maintenance, but full of colour and movement. Combine them well and you have a July-to-October garden that feels like America's Tallgrass Prairie.

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Elegant green shrubs (boxwood alternatives) in various shades of green in a formal borderCombinaciones de plantas

Combining boxwood alternatives: elegant borders without box blight risk

Boxwood died on a massive scale. Its alternatives — Ilex crenata, Lonicera nitida, Buxus wallichiana — grow identically. Do you know how to combine them? This is elegant boxwood-lookalike garden design without the risk.

5 min
Purple lavender and blue rosemary in bloom in a Mediterranean sunny borderCombinaciones de plantas

Combining lavender with rosemary: a Mediterranean sunny border that blooms all summer

Lavender and rosemary are made for the same soil, same sun, same watering regime. Combine them with thyme, santolina and salvias and you have a Mediterranean border that's in full bloom June to September.

5 min
Slender verbena bonariensis with purple-pink flowers hovering above other plantsCombinaciones de plantas

Combining verbena bonariensis: height and lightness in any border

Verbena bonariensis (purple top verbena) is not aggressive, not invasive, but breaks all rules by becoming thin, tall and full of purple-pink flowers. It's the perfect centrepiece plant for borders: you see through it, but it brings structure and bloom.

5 min
Pink-purple cranesbill geraniums as groundcover with white flowers in a shady cornerCombinaciones de plantas

Cranesbill geranium as groundcover: combinations that cover shade and sun

Cranesbill geranium (not the red summer type) flowers for months, tolerates shade and sun, and grows as groundcover. No other plant is this versatile. These are combinations that truly fill every corner.

5 min
Full pink peonies in bloom with tulips and early perennials around themCombinaciones de plantas

Combining peonies: a spring border that carries through the entire season

Peonies bloom two weeks in May-June. After: massive green foliage all summer. Combine them with early bulbs, spring ephemerals and summer-blooming perennials and you have a border that never feels empty.

5 min
Helleborus flowers in snow, soft pink and white, early season bloomsCombinaciones de plantas

Helleborus combinations: your garden blooms in January

Helleborus (Christmas rose) pairs beautifully with other early bloomers. With the right planting companions, you'll have a full, colourful winter border from December to March.

5 min
Astilbe plumes in pink between hosta leaves, shade corner in a gardenCombinaciones de plantas

Astilbe and hosta in the shade corner: feathery plumes between leafy foliage

Astilbe and hosta are the perfect duo for shady spots. Hosta provides solid foliage, Astilbe adds airy blooms. A combination that delivers non-stop colour and texture from May to September.

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