Showcase your roses in a staging according to your garden style.
The perfume garden
- In the spotlight: one (or more) fragrant rose, depending on your climbing, shrub or bush space.
- Around it: lavender with purple flowers, sage with purple-tinted foliage, a few pots of creeping thyme, a few pots of white gauras.
This scene can be placed near the dining area where it will perfume all summer long, especially when the weather is hot. It can be planted in the ground or in a pot on the terrace. The plants you choose will blend in with any color of rosebush. Aromatics are a safe bet, (their low cost allows you to renew the decor after a few seasons). The gauras bring lightness and luminosity to the whole.
Contemporary garden
- In the spotlight: one (or more) shrub rose or ground cover with single flowers that bloom all summer long.
- Around it: a few cups of Stipas tenuifolia, blue fescue, purple Pennisetum and some Buenos Aires verbena.
A maximum of effect for a reduced maintenance to the strict minimum! Use in a sunny corner of the garden or on a terrace in large anthracite gray wood or composite containers. Install small grasses (fescues and stipas) in front of the rosebush. The pennisetum creates a duo that contrasts with the rose, while the verbenas give a vertical touch to the whole. Mulch the bare ground with slate shavings in a resolutely contemporary style.
Romantic garden for a day
- The star of the show: an antique or English climbing rose with large pink or white flowers.
- Around it: 2 balls of boxwood, 2 cups of nepetas, a clematis with small blue-purple summer flowers, 5 cups of bluebells, 3 cups of alchemilla, a bag of white cosmos seeds.
To give a romantic touch to the garden or terrace, roses are a must. A bench, a metal arch, a rosebush with old-fashioned charm, scented if possible... the decor is set. To bring out the beauty of the flowers and the tenderness of the colors, boxwood balls or an evergreen hedge are ideal. Nepetas, alchemilla and campanulas offer a soft blur to the composition while cosmos give it grace and lightness. The small flowers of the clematis create a surprise during the summer, reinforcing by contrast the beauty of the chubby roses.
Exotic Garden
- In the spotlight: one (or more) brightly colored rose (red, bright orange, bright yellow...)
- To accompany it: 1 cream-colored phormium, 1 classic fern (or tree fern), 1 hosta with very large leaves (or a banana tree), 2 heucheras with purple or orange foliage, 3 bulbs of dahlias with bright red flowers, 1 canna with purple foliage.
Brightly colored roses are often not well combined, they can even become gaudy, whereas a composition with exotic charm reveals all their beauty. This scene is perfect for a lightly shaded city patio. The foliage (varied in shape and color) provides a beautiful backdrop for the roses, echoing them as they turn yellow, orange or purple. The dahlias will take over during the summer if the rose's blooming fades a little.
