I think Roseanne goes with just about anything. I have her planted with Coreopsis 'moonbeam', Delphinium 'Butterfly', Achillea 'Summerwine'(deep pink yarrow) and pale pink roses 'Nearly Wild'. I'm pretty aggressive about pruning her back, but that's just me!

Here are a couple of pics in which I like the rosy magenta of coneflowers as a foil to the purple/blue of Rozanne. It also looks neat next to an established clump of Alchemilla mollis, with the acid yellow/green flowers contrasting nicely with the blue. I don't have a pic of that but I did plant an A. mollis next to another Rozanne this spring, but it's too small right now.

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The photo on this thread inspired me to order a Rozanne Geranium today, hope I can eventually get more out of it. When I get my annual order from Wild's, there is always a bonus, and they aren't too bad. Last year it was Ginger Whip daylily which is kind of an apricot shade; this year it was Small Ways dl which is a little more lemony but not like coolguy's. So the things will have to just work themselves together and see what I get, am out of spaces for daylilies in my regular garden areas so stuck them the best place I could find at the moment.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cool combination

I have planted mine along the KO Roses with white garden phlox 'David' between the two. I mixed in some annuals such as purple petunias and purple annual ageratum until the perennials are mature. So, I don't yet have photos since this is under development!

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i planted one in a very narrow spot between some Malva fastigiata, and the stems have climbed right into the malvas. Very beautiful, and so striking that I'm going to do more like that next year.

Wow, I love the pic above!! Very nicely done!

I think Rozanne looks best as a carpeting plant in a mixed shrub border.

There are 9 Rozanne geraniums in this curving border, mostly in the deeper corner beds. At the front end (as shown in the picture) Rozanne is used with red flowers and in the unseen corner it is used with yellows and orange.

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Here is a closeup of the border taken in the spring some years ago with Purple Smoke Cotinus (which I use as a cutback shrub), Rozanne and a tiny red Knockout Rose to the right (there are 2 more Knockouts in the area and another Rozanne right behind the rose). The grass is Panicum Shenandoah (a slightly bluish, burgandy tipped grass with a haze of reddish seedheads in fall).

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Here is a closeup of Rozanne with the last Knockout bloom on October 7, 2006.

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Loving everyone's photos! Leslie, I've admired your border when you posted photos before. Everything is looking very lush! Are those variegated Cornus? I wonder how your garden is looking these days? A lot more mature, I imagine.

Franeli, I really like that combo in your bed. I imagine you were trying to keep the planting low? What made it difficult there aside from the height? Is it in full sun? I've never seen Sedum paired with geranium. I like it. I see what looks like Sedum Autumn Joy, what are the other two types of sedum? Looks like a silver Artemesia on the corner in the foreground, what is that blue green plant behind it? Great job! Very attractive combo!

threedogsmom....very pretty! Love that lily! Is that a Foxy Foxglove? Which variety of clematis is that?

I found it looks nice with pinks, purples, light yellows and whites. For colour echoes, plant with blues such as clematis integrifolia or blue flax. I have a white potentilla fruticosa, light yellow daylilies, yellow-apricot echinacea 'Harvest Moon' (aka Matthew Saul), light purple ger. 'Nimbus', creamy white anthemis 'Susanna Mitchell', callirhoe involucrata, any of the sanguineum geraniuums such as 'Alpenglow', Ankum's Pride', 'Elke', etc., ger. 'Ann Folkhard'. It even looks good with darker yellows such as Hemerocallis 'Mary Todd' or Coreopsis verticillata 'Golden Gain'. I have Rozanne/Jolly Bee planted in four different locations in my garden and have found it looks good with various companions, most of which have shorter flowering periods.

prairiemoon2,

The area in my photo faces NW and gets blasting sun and heat in midsummer from late afternoon until sunset. The 2feet of gravel packing from the hardscaping is the ongoing challenge.

Sedum cauticola are the short blue sedums behind the silver leaves of Veronica incana. Sedum spectabile is behind the S.cauticola .

Wow! These are such wonderful ideas, y'all. There are some incredibly gifted gardeners on this forum. Many of the plants you are using will not survive my climate, but I am printing this out anyway and will try to take my cues from color, form, and texture (Crinums instead of Asiatic lilies, Loropetalums instead of cotinus, etc.). I hate to pick any one out, but franeli, your picture is just what I was looking for, as my Rozannes are in a border that is predominantly blue, yellows, and yellow greens. Man, I wish I could grow alchemilla. It is such a stunning plant!

Thanks to everyone! Rozanne is a great plant, obviously, for anywhere in the country. May her tribe increase!

Franeli, your combination is really a winning one! Rozanne looks great with your sedum in its light greenish pre-bloom state, and then when it is in its rosy blooming state, you will have a whole other panorama of color. Very nice!

Prairiemoon2,

Thanks for your kind comments. The garden, parts of it now well over 10 years old, is indeed quite different now (think overgrown jungle, especially in the perennial areas closer to the house), but this back fence edge of the shrub border looks pretty much the same in photos from year to year. Most of the shrubs are cutback shrubs and dwarf varieties, although those certainly grow some too. :)

Changes that are most noticeable in these areas (to me at least) are what is not there - most of the original perennials! The spring daffodils, the Rozannes, and the daylilies are about all that is left on this corner. The other wetter side has more perennials because fewer shrubs can handle the drainage issues.

Those are indeed Cornus, Cornus alba 'Elegantissima' to be specific. They were cut down to 30 inches (and thinned) this spring and have grown to about a foot over fence height now. This back garden faces due south and the silvery shimmery look of the sun glowing through the cornus against the dark green solid arborvitaes is a constant in my summer garden (the red twigs are nice too, especially with snow on the ground, but could use more of a backdrop than a fenceline. The Emerald arborvitaes have of course gotten much taller and fatter than in the picture, as has the Viburnum opulus Stirilis, a very fast growing viburnum, whose leaves form the background of the last picture, the dwarf lilac, the buttonbush (now a small tree), etc.

However, the grasses are what have grown the most!. The Panicum at this end and the Miscanthus Strictus at the other are huge - as wide as my outstretched arms. They still have Rozanne sprawling around their bases, but I have had to move and transplant them as things changed. (I originally only had Rozanne at the one end of the border (the view shown in the picture) but eventually rather than toss the ones that were being crowded out, I had to try them in the wetter garden (where they have done fine) and across the narrow path to the tree/shrub border (not shown).

Donnabaskets, sorry I just noticed that my pixs don't really show Rozanne much! LOL. Thing is I don't point the camera down into the bottom of this bed much. You can't tell but this bed is really a drainage swale with the bed itself dropping several feet down and then going up again mostly on the other side of the fence. Rozanne does nicely in the higher areas on both sides of the swale weaving its way through and around many much larger plants. This I believe is its real strength.

The Rozannes are very versatile sturdy plants to survive my garden's crowding, the varying moisture conditions and heavy clay soil, and the changing shade conditions (non-existent to light shade to heavy shade to covered up entirely by large grasses and shrub branches), as well as frequent transplanting and being hacked and pruned and pulled by me. I just recently chopped down a Lysimachia Alexander that finished blooming and whose foliage was going bad and pulled and rearranged the long arms of a nearby Rozanne to cover the bare spot! It sulked for a day or so and then righted all its flowers and filled the spot nicely. Donnabaskets, you simply can't go wrong with Rozanne in a mixed border. BTW, on my heavy clay soil the Rozannes stayed rounded clumps for the first two seasons, before beginning their career as a weaver "extraordinaire" in the garden - and I really do have bloom on them every year from early July into October on plants that were bought six seasons ago.

I did not know Rozanne became a "weaver extraordinaire".

First year for me it was nice rounded clumps. I've got to move her now as she is smothering some Huecheras and small Daylilies. LOVE her though. What an amazing plant. I have her with Knockout roses too. I just hacked her way back to be able to move her and spread compost too. Hope she survives.

Franeli and Leslie your combos are wonderful.

My Geranium Jolly Bee (OK, it is not exactly Rozanne, but close enough, right!? LOL) is a good friend of (hydrangea) Annabelle! I look how it climbs up Annabelle:

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Coreopsis Zagreb would be a find companion...not necessarily for height variation. But for foilage texture, foilage color, compact vs. loose.