Companion plants for Tropical Hibiscus
Tropical Hibiscus blooms from June through October. It wants full sun and moderate water. The 8 companion pairings below each state why the pairing works.
Blooming before Tropical Hibiscus opens
Southern Wax Myrtle
Shares full sun and moderate water; blooms in late winter, before this one opens; both offer pollinator forage, in different months; taller at 17 ft, for the layer behind it.
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.
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 offer pollinator forage, in different months; they only overlap in zone 9.
Texas Mountain Laurel
Shares full sun and low to moderate water; blooms in early 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.
American Holly
Shares full sun and moderate 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; they only overlap in zone 9.
Blooming alongside
Echeveria
Shares full sun and low to moderate water; opens in late spring and overlaps into this one's season; low at 4 in, to carpet the ground beneath; evergreen, so the bed keeps its shape through winter.
Pansy
Takes full sun to part sun and moderate water; opens in early spring and overlaps into this one's season; low at 8 in, to carpet the ground beneath.
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.