Design a bed with grasses and perennials

Which grasses and perennials harmonize with each other?

When choosing your grasses and perennials, you should pay particular attention to the height of the plant. Low grasses harmonize very well with perennials that also remain small. You can combine feather or blood grass, for example, with asters or sedum plants. The fine blades of grass make the colored flowers glow particularly intensely. You can create special contrasts with individual tall perennials between low grasses.

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If you have decided on straight-growing, stern-looking perennials, then choose fine, perhaps overhanging grasses. They loosen up the bed significantly. Combine different leaf shapes and colors, such as light grasses with dark-leaved perennials or vice versa, that makes your new bed more attractive. But make sure that all plants in the bed need about the same care (water and fertilizer).

A shady bed with grasses and perennials

You can plant Japanese silver ribbon grass in a shady garden; it feels comfortable there and brightens dark areas a little. This grass goes perfectly with large-leaved perennials such as the perennial begonia. Hostas and hydrangeas also thrive in the shade.

A full sun bed with grasses and shrubs

For a full sun, for example, bluebells, brown cells, the blood cranesbill and the edelweiss, but also the sedum plant and various types of carnations are suitable. Blue beach grass, white ostrich grass, magellan grass and silver ear grass also feel very comfortable in the sun. But do not put too many different species in one bed, it quickly becomes restless.