COMPANIONS IN THE ROSE GARDEN
Choose the right plants to complement your roses so that they look gorgeous all year round! This will ensure that your rose garden in winter is not just a bunch of shortly-pruned, bare-stemmed bushes. Plant herbs and flowers such as agapanthus, salvia, iris, aster, lily, lavender, fennel, foxglove, bellflower, Cape scabious, stocks, tobacco flower and pelargonium in among your roses. Even shrubs and climbing plants such as Clematis, Weigela, Abelia and English honeysuckle will look great in your rose garden.
I In Jessie Walton’s garden, her roses share their beds with plants that make the perfect partners. “It’s so easy to enhance a rose bed with the right companion plants,” says Jessie, owner of Keurbos Nursery in Grabouw.
“In my more formal rose bed where…