I see people here planting daylilies with roses all the time. My daylilies are in their own separate bed, but I'm buying some more on Saturday (Colorado Daylily society is having their annual sale) and am planting them between some of my other roses. What I've also done is plant columbines between roses - that way I get spring flowers before the roses start up. However, don't plant most agastaches next to roses.. they'll eat them! Some of the smaller salvias are OK, but definitely NOT Purple Rain. That one has almost eaten my RubyRuby. Here's a bad picture of what NOT to do:
This picture actually has at least 9 roses in it. The "white" rose in the lower right is actually Sunny Delite (sun just popped up over the horizon & blinded everything), next to Escapade, then another Sunny Delite. Keeping on going counter-clockwise, the tall roses there is Charles de Mills & Orange Velvet, Rose Marie Viaud is buried there. The yellow in the middle-ish is Henry Fonda, then the red is RubyRuby. Betty Boop continues on to the left. Behind and sprawling all over the place is that Cecile Bruner. Behind Cecile is Theresa Bugnet. However, as you can see, my Agastache cana (big purple thing in the front) has taken over everything.
Another plant to be very cautious about is bluebeard. Here's my "pond area" in June 2011.
And this is a couple of days ago:
I don't feed them any special food / fertilizer & you can see, they've taken over EVERYTHING! I moved the artemisia out of that area & put it someplace else, too.
