Great Companion Plants for Roses
Saturday July 12, 2008
I’m really excited to be able to start offering you gardening tips from Sonia Uyterhoeven. Sonia is Gardener for Public Education at The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) and she’s acquired a wealth of gardening know-how from her years of training and working at some of the most renowned public gardens. Sonia oversees the NYBG’s Home Gardening Online site and has graciously offered to share some of her tips with our readers. And what better way to start than with roses. The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, at the NYBG, displays more than 3,000 roses. That’s a lot of pruning. It’s also a great opportunity to learn what plants look and grow best with roses. Sonia lets us in on her top choices of companion plants for roses.
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Comments
Thank you for the article on companions for roses. Some ideas I can try. Our little garden forces me to find companion plants. I have had most success with tomatoes, when grown near roses. Probably because they don’t get as much water as in the vege patch.
Yes…although lavender is good as it shares the same needs for water as roses…Lavender does grow high, and weedy and woody, and like roses..it shares a shallow root ball. So when the time is needed for removing the lavender, the frail shallow rose roots..WOULD be disturved