Companion plants for Moonflower

Moonflower blooms from July through September. It wants full sun and moderate water. The 8 companion pairings below each state why the pairing works.

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Blooming before Moonflower opens

  • Bauer's Cordyline

    Bauer's Cordyline

    Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in early summer, before this one opens; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter; lower at 8 ft, for the front of the border.

  • Goodding's Verbena

    Goodding's Verbena

    Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; both offer pollinator forage, in different months; a soft color beside the white.

  • Candybox Chilean Guava

    Candybox Chilean Guava

    Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in late spring, before this one opens; both offer pollinator forage, in different months; lower at 4.5 ft, for the front of the border.

  • Indian Hawthorn

    Indian Hawthorn

    Shares full sun and moderate 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; they only overlap in zones 9 to 10.

  • Dragon Slayer Adam's Needle Yucca

    Dragon Slayer Adam's Needle Yucca

    Shares full sun and low to moderate water; blooms in early summer, before this one opens; both offer pollinator forage, in different months; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter; they only overlap in zones 9 to 10.

  • Nemesia

    Nemesia

    Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in mid spring, before this one opens; both offer pollinator forage, in different months; a soft color beside the white.

  • Canterbury Bells

    Canterbury Bells

    Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in late spring, before this one opens; lower at 2.5 ft, for the front of the border; both offer pollinator forage, in different months.

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Blooming alongside

  • Blackfoot Daisy

    Blackfoot Daisy

    Shares full sun and low to moderate water; overlaps, then carries the display into late fall; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter; both offer pollinator forage.

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