I love all of the suggestions of perennials that have been given to me in another thread, and the ones that have been given in the above mentioned thread, but I have difficulty visualizing the combos sometimes. Well...and if I have to admit the FULL story, I also love to see the photos of your roses and yards! It's like candy I tell ya, total eye candy!

Surprisingly, there isn't much on the internet about companion plants with roses? Maybe I'm not looking in the right place?

Thanks.

Ingrid

Ingrid

In this picture there are roses, Valierian (Jupiter's Beard), Shasta daisies, iaxa, South African daisy ground cover (yellow), iris, trailing petunias (in pot on stump, and oxalis (yellow behind wall).

Jackie

Jackie

I also have volunteer parsley which love the rose bed and thyme.

Anne

Some people have physical, financial, spatial or time limitations that make it easier to grow roses as a monoculture. That's okay, too. I have both areas of rose monoculture and areas of mix. Surely a beautifully grown rose is a beautifully grown rose, whether it is alone or with companions?

I agree. It's like what I once said about antiques: "I used to be very picky and now it's a lot worse. Now I like everything." Formal or informal they can all be beautiful.

Cath

I am enjoying the cala lilies that are up, but I can see how their fast growth will be an issue for a couple of the roses. Thankfully, I have a place that I hope to fill with the extra calas.

I have CA poppies, daffs, salvias, irises, lavenders, 4 O'clocks, columbines, delphiniums, society garlic, bella donna lily, day lily, Santa Barbara daisy, and.....

Ingrid

Ingrid

erasmus, the larkspurs among the roses are really beautiful, especially with the different colors giving a tapestry effect.

floridarose, I'm flattered you remember the progress of my garden. Seeing the changes over the years is I think one of the great pleasures of gardening. May we hope for some pictures from your garden?

Ingrid

Lori, you mentioned posting a few pics but only one showed up - did you have more?? I'd love to see any others you might want to post.

I love that you all seem so relaxed about your plans. It's very inspiring for this gal who over thinks herself to the point to where she doesn't do anything at all! It also seems that this relaxed approach allows the plants to really grow together the way they're supposed to!

Thank you for sharing your photos! I know that it can be time consuming to do so, but they help so much!

Maybe pictures in the future. I was promised a new camera for Valentine's Day but it never materialized. I got an IOU. He wanted me to pick it out, and that was probably a good idea. There won't be pictures this spring, though, as everything was in early bloom because of the warm winter, and then we had two nights of freezing temps that ruined all the blooms.

Ingrid

Here is a picture of my only success with Canterbury Bells. I don't know why campanulas don't like it much in my garden. I had a vegetable and zinnia garden when I was about five years old, then was not a gardener for a number of years. When I was about 17 I had a real longing to grow Canterbury Bells.
I scattered some seeds of it on the ground and wondered why they didn't come up. I should have tried larkspurs, because they do come up in the grass and are very tough. But finally I was able to grow some Canterbury Bells and they were lovely and much larger than I had pictured.

Here is the same area viewed from the opposite side--see daisies there. What you can't see a bit further to the left is a couple of red Kordes Eutins there to complete the color patterns.

Here, in a different bed are more bulb lilies plus larkspur growing wild around Austin's Molineux (not the best pic of Molineux, unfortunately)--and a yellow yarrow back there also. I grow some yellow and some pinkish-red yarrow in several places throughout the gardens.

A peony (Cora Stubbs, I think) growing next to Our Lady of Guadalupe. I didn't plan on their pinks being so similar, but what the heck--they are both lovely. I have other peonies scattered around the back yard near roses also.

This bed has a lot of red roses in it (that is the Clements shrub Braveheart), so I scattered lots of low-growing white hardy geraniums around for contrast. Gives a wonderful frilly effect to the garden. Unfortunately, only blooms the first half of the summer--but outstanding at that time.

I have clematis climbing up a number of roses--here Polish Spirit (I think that's right) assisting my climbing Eden rose in its younger days.

This narrow strip along side the driveway is mostly roses, but I adore the blue pansies planted the entire length of the strip. When it gets too hot here for pansies, I sometimes switch over to blue lobelias there.

I also have clumps of iris growing around the gardens, but I didn't take any "mixed" pic of iris and roses for some reason. Here is a gorgeous Superstition iris blanted next to an Austin Queen of Sweden shrub (not blooming but you can see it behind the iris).

Just a few examples of ways to mix-n-match in the garden. Probably helps that I planted bulbs, corms, perennials, and annuals for 20 years before I got heavy-duty into roses like I have the past 10 years.

Kate

I'm awed at how well everyone else has combined the roses with other plants. The pink rose and pink peonies are my favorites, but all the garden combinations are beautiful.

Ingrid