Companion plants for Ranunculus
Ranunculus blooms from April through May. It wants full sun and moderate water. The 8 companion pairings below each state why the pairing works.
Taking over as Ranunculus finishes
Color Guard Yucca
Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in early summer as this one finishes; leafs out to hide the ripening bulb foliage as it dies back; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months.
Red Yucca
Shares full sun and low to moderate water; leafs out to hide the ripening bulb foliage as it dies back; blooms in midsummer, extending the bed's season; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months.
Parry's Agave
Shares full sun and low to moderate water; blooms in early summer as this one finishes; leafs out to hide the ripening bulb foliage as it dies back; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months.
Common Blue Grama Grass
Shares full sun and low to moderate water; blooms in early summer as this one finishes; leafs out to hide the ripening bulb foliage as it dies back; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months.
Feather Reed Grass
Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in early summer as this one finishes; leafs out to hide the ripening bulb foliage as it dies back; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months; they only overlap in zones 8 to 9.
Splitbeard Bluestem
Shares full sun and low to moderate water; blooms in late summer, extending the bed's season; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months; its seed heads stand through winter, for structure and the birds.
Toyon
Shares full sun and low to moderate water; blooms in early summer as this one finishes; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.
Austin Pretty Limits Oleander
Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in midsummer, extending the bed's season; both are strong pollinator plants, and they feed in different months; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.