Companion plants for Bigleaf Hydrangea
Bigleaf Hydrangea blooms from June through August. It wants part sun and high water. The 8 companion pairings below each state why the pairing works.
Blooming before Bigleaf Hydrangea opens
Feathered Friends Fancy Finch Ajuga
Takes part sun to part shade and moderate to high water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; low at 4 in, to carpet the ground beneath; both offer pollinator forage, in different months.
Eye Candy Moss Phlox
Takes full sun to part sun and moderate to high water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; low at 4 in, to carpet the ground beneath; both offer pollinator forage, in different months.
Coloratus Wintercreeper
Takes part sun to part shade and moderate to high water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; low at 8 in, to carpet the ground beneath; both offer pollinator forage, in different months.
Kinnikinnick
Takes full sun to part sun and moderate to high water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; low at 8 in, to carpet the ground beneath; both offer pollinator forage, in different months.
American Holly
Takes full sun to part sun and moderate to high water; blooms in late spring, before this one opens; both offer pollinator forage, in different months; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.
Red Robin Photinia
Takes full sun to part sun and moderate to high water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; both offer pollinator forage, in different months; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.
Blooming alongside
Woodland Stonecrop
Takes part sun to part shade and moderate to high water; opens in mid spring and overlaps into this one's season; low at 8 in, to carpet the ground beneath; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.
Autumn Crocus
Takes full sun to part sun and moderate to high water; blooms in early fall as this one finishes; low at 6 in, to carpet the ground beneath; both offer pollinator forage, in different months.