Planting combinations

Make awesome plant combinations, step-by-step. Learn how to use contrast, color, texture & form to make unforgettable plant combinations in your garden.

Compliment your plants by creating wonderful combinations using these basic design principles.

Combine flowers and grasses to great effect, with the help of our inspirational feature.

With a little imagination and a slightly broader palette of plants, these ornamental grass combinations showcase your grasses all season.

The biggest concept to understand when combining plants is how to use contrast. Contrast is simply is the scale of how similar or how different two things are from one another. In the garden, we use contrast to create harmony, flow and excitement in our plantings. When combining plants, the types of contrast I like to look at are color, leaf size, texture and plant form (shape). Keep reading to learn how to make stunning plant combinations in your garden.

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In this post, I show seven plants arranged in more than seven different plant combination layouts that are suited to a variety of garden situations.

Here are the perfect plants for each colour scheme

Plants bring a garden to life and provide joy throughout the year. Whether your garden is large or small, planting is the key to a successful garden. Each garden is unique and every planting design is individually tailored to suit the location, aspect, architecture and soil conditions at the site. Rosemary’s extensive experience ensures the

This structured design approach helps hasten the journey from newly planted to lush and abundant. Learn how to design a fast-filling garden.