Re: [SG] Companion plant suggestions

Nancy,
At the Missouri Botanical Garden, I saw a great combination -- yellow daylilies in front of Perovskia (Russian Sage) with Heliopsis (False Sunflower) at the back of the bed.
The yellows and blue are great together, repeating the colors of the sun and the sky.

Also, daffodils are great planted among daylilies. The daylilies come up just in time to hide the fading daffodil foliage.  

And one more idea -- Verbena bonariensis is nice interplanted with daylilies.

Note that Verbena bonariensis and Perovskia both need full sun to do well.  Heliopsis can take full sun or part shade.  

Good luck and have fun with your garden!

--Janis

In a message dated 1/10/02 11:03:21 PM Central Standard Time, perennials-owner@hort.net writes:


Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:53:42 -0600
From: nancy degrazia <nsshlaes@ameritech.net>

Bobbi-this is not a reply at all, nut my own request for suggestions for
Companion plants to go with a row of  daylilies--mostly "Hyperion" (a birght
yellow) but also assorted others.  They are in a bed about 20 feet long and 3
feet wide which I created in a hurry when the birds ate all my sunflower
seedlings and someone gave me 30 daylily plants.

But now I don't know what to do to turn this row into a "garden."  The bed
faces southeast and goes from sun through dappled shade to true shade (the
last 6 feet).
It is directly outside our vegetable garden and there is a 36" cyclone-type
fence between them.

Please put your fertile imaginations and years of experience to work and send
me some suggestions.  I would like to use the fence, if possible, but I don't
think my first thoughts of sweet peas would work at all.

In advance, I thank you all

Nancy deGrazia



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