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Underplanting Roses with Low-Growing Spring Bulbs

Best Rose Companions, Companion Planting, Spring Bulbs

Underplanting roses, Best David Austin Roses, Best roses for borders, Rose borders, Shrub Roses, Rose companion plants, companion planting

Roses need friends or companion plants around them for various reasons, including pest and disease control, longer season of interest, and aesthetics. Underplanting your shrub roses with a succession of flowers will reinforce the beauty of their romantic blooms and extend the flowering season of your mixed border.

Start with low-growing spring bulbs such as Snowdrops, Crocus, Grape Hyacinths, Scillas, Anemones, and Narcissi. They will provide color to your rose borders at a time when your roses are not at their best.

Scatter the small pink flowering bulbs of Glory-of-the Snow throughout your rose beds and watch these delicate beauties blossom in early spring. Enjoy the charming blue flowers of Grape Hyacinths blooming beneath the masses of colorful rose hips. Underplant your roses with fragrant Daffodils, which will multiply year after year and fill in around the new growth of your roses with their attractive yellow and white blooms.

With such a multitude of companion plants to pair your roses with, you are sure to find several combinations that will enhance your landscape and please your eye!

Guide Information

Hardiness 4 - 9
Plant Type Bulbs, Roses
Genus Narcissus, Muscari, Galanthus, Crocus, Rosa, Scilla, Chionodoxa, Rosa - Grandiflora Rose, Rosa - Hybrid Tea Rose, Rosa - Floribunda Rose, Rosa - Shrub Rose, Rosa - English Rose
Exposure Full Sun, Partial Sun
Season of Interest Spring (Late)
Summer (Early, Mid, Late)
Fall
Height
Spread
Maintenance Average
Water Needs Average
Soil Type Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
Soil pH Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Moist but Well-Drained, Well-Drained
Characteristics Cut Flowers, Fragrant, Showy
Attracts Butterflies
Landscaping Ideas Beds And Borders, Underplanting Roses And Shrubs
Garden Styles City and Courtyard, Formal Garden, Informal and Cottage, Traditional Garden

Extend the flowering season of your rose border with low-growing spring bulbs

 

With so many types of roses and a multitude of companion plants to pair them with, you are sure to find pleasing combinations of bright or pastel colors that will delight the gardener that you are.

While every effort has been made to describe these plants accurately, please keep in mind that height, bloom time, and color may differ in various climates. The description of these plants has been written based on numerous outside resources.

Guide Information

Hardiness 4 - 9
Plant Type Bulbs, Roses
Genus Narcissus, Muscari, Galanthus, Crocus, Rosa, Scilla, Chionodoxa, Rosa - Grandiflora Rose, Rosa - Hybrid Tea Rose, Rosa - Floribunda Rose, Rosa - Shrub Rose, Rosa - English Rose
Exposure Full Sun, Partial Sun
Season of Interest Spring (Late)
Summer (Early, Mid, Late)
Fall
Height
Spread
Maintenance Average
Water Needs Average
Soil Type Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
Soil pH Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
Soil Drainage Moist but Well-Drained, Well-Drained
Characteristics Cut Flowers, Fragrant, Showy
Attracts Butterflies
Landscaping Ideas Beds And Borders, Underplanting Roses And Shrubs
Garden Styles City and Courtyard, Formal Garden, Informal and Cottage, Traditional Garden

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