Black or dark foliage/flowers plant list
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Comments (7)Thanks Mike and Gardengal! I suppose I'm not "standard" then because my thinking is a harmonious color scheme (ie colours next to each other on the colour wheel) of burgandy-red (the shrubs), pinks(mostly bright), purples(bright if possible), medium blues and, grey/blue . For me the bright pinks/bright purples seem to be the most lacking in numbers. Mike - I do love what you have and red- orange is another harmonious color scheme - but unfortunately orange isn't my color. I do like the Rosa Glauca against the red foliage though. You guys are making me appreciate the silvery and blue leaves that I took for granted! Oh, and I do envy your zone for those lovely japanese maples! Gardengal - I could add more silvery blue. I do have some grey/blues in that garden already, a "bigears" wooly lambs ears, nepeta, a creeping juniper with a blue cast and they are all good. I hadn't thought too much about them they were just there. Just to share a few things I think work for a pink/purple approach with burgandy leaved shrubs. I happen to have a hot pink perennial sweet pea growing by accident through the purple leaf sandcherry and it's quite nice. Another thing I have in that garden - is a hybiscus syriacus similiar to blue bird (lavender blue with a deep burgandy marking in the middle of each flower) I also have "Arnie's Choice" daylily and some creeping phlox. Like most gardeners I'm a bit greedy and always searching for more. I'd welcome more suggestions, especially vivid pinks and purples, perhaps earlier (or later) blooming than the coneflower and liatris if anyone has more ideas....See Morefavorite plant combos - flowers or foliage
Comments (8)These are some wonderful combinations, and reminders! I have a holding bed where I put plants I don't know where to place permanently. Hala - your post reminded me that I have campanula Superba. I also have the oriental poppy 'Angels Choir'. Now I know where they will go. Ianna - I have gotten more varieties of coneflower thru trades. I may put some in the bed. Aker - I hadn't thought of to many annuals in there, but coleus would be a great idea. xaroline - I also love the idea of poppies with the blue hyssop. Ontnative - I alread have Miss Pepper phlox in that bed and I have a pink anemone. Just to let you know Miss Pepper has been here 6 years and gotten mildew once. Never thought of them togther. Oilpainter - I'm not a fan of gallardias but I like the idea of that colour combo. Any ideas for another type of flower to put in front of the salvia? Thanks for the great ideas everyone. Keep them coming, it's a large bed! Marg...See Morefoliage plant for garden..trying to learn to add foliage
Comments (8)Get thee hence to amazon.com and buy some Sunset gardening books! They have excellent advice for the Western gardener, none better. Also, many of their smaller specialty paperbacks show up on the 'sale' shelves at drugstores, Wal-Mart, Costco, etc., which are great buys. I picked up their latest 'Trellises & Arbors' book for $4.95 at Long's, a few feet away they were still selling their remaining copies at $12.95! It is hot and dry where you are, but can get nippy at night in winter although frost is very rare. You're in Sunset zone 21 so there are wonderful tropicals available to you. The biggest thing for you to be aware of is that your soil heats up fast and stays warm throughout most of the year. Stay away from cool-soil plants (or keep them in the shade) and you'll be fine. Many of the nurseries are carrying Australian and South African plants now as their climate is similar to ours. You are right to get into foliage, you can have a beautiful garden year-round in CA if you use the right plants. I'm 400 miles north of you so some of what I grow won't work for you, but some will: Clumping evergreen daylilies Lantana of any kind, trailing or shrub Agapanthus, and there are beautiful variegated ones now Abutilons (partial shade where you are) Pelargoniums, the fancy leaf hybrids Osteopermums will flower year-round for you, in fact they will flower themselves to death! Coleonema Bearded iris stay evergreen and many flower twice a year in partial shade Lavendars, rosemaries, euryops, argyranthemums all have lovely foliage Tibouchinas, melianthus, grevilleas will all love your weather. At their feet: gazanias, helianthemum, asteriscus maritimus ('Gold Coin'), lambs ear, alyssum. And I won't even get started on vines--oh, do you have great choices open to you.......See Morepurple or dark foliage plant for deep shade
Comments (13)They had them at Lowes. I have mine in part shade because of the variegation. Its still in a pot until I can see if it likes it there, lol. It was the first time I had seen such bold colored foliage. Its a beauty. My other white and green variegated one bloomed today. I need to get some pics of it tomorrow. It has dark pink blooms. Got a cool looking yellow on green variegated plant the other day too. It keeps things interesting when nothing has flowers with interesting foliage....See Moregyr_falcon
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