Companion plants for Cleome
Cleome blooms from June through September. It wants full sun and moderate water. The 8 companion pairings below each state why the pairing works.
Blooming before Cleome opens
Eye Candy Moss Phlox
Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; low at 4 in, to carpet the ground beneath; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months.
Kinnikinnick
Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; lower at 8 in, for the front of the border; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months.
American Holly
Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in late spring, before this one opens; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.
Red Robin Photinia
Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.
Candytuft
Shares full sun and low to moderate water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; lower at 10 in, for the front of the border; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months.
Ever After Ruby Reblooming Azalea
Takes full sun to part sun and moderate water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.
Decadence Lemon Meringue False Indigo
Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months; its seed heads stand through winter, for structure and the birds.
Blooming alongside
Thyme
Shares full sun and low to moderate water; low at 6 in, to carpet the ground beneath; opens in late spring and overlaps into this one's season; both are strong pollinator plants.