Nicki’s Foliage Favorites

Leaves with flair

Today ’s photo are from Nicki Snoblin in Lake Bluff , Illinois . We ’ve visited their garden before ( Nicki ’s New Garden ProjectandFall in Nicki ’s Garden ) and today Nicki is share some foliage plant life that they love .

These stunning leaves are from the tricolor beech ( Fagussylvatica‘Tricolor ’ , Zone 4 – 8) . This is a strange variety of the European beach . The normal species just has green leave , then there is the fuzz beech which has colored purple - browned foliage , and this plant is a variegated version of that . When the folio come out in the spring they are dramatic dark centers with radiate pink edge . As the leaf mature , especially those in more shade , the peak shades into pick , giving a tricolored outcome . These are leafage that will outshine most flowers .

A cut - leaf Japanese maple ( Acerpalmatum , Zone 5 – 9 ) juxtaposed withHosta(Zone 4 – 9 ) . Everything about these two leave line with each other – the maple darkness , and fragile while the hosta is light green and sheer . order the two together makes each of them gleam .

There are almost no flowers in this bed , but there is no motive . Starting with the tricolor beach leaves on the rightfulness , there is so much color and grain and demarcation from foliage that this planting stays beautiful and exciting .

Ligularia ( Ligulariadentata , Zone 3 – 8) . The yellow daisy flowers await a lilliputian tousled and messy , but it is hard to puzzle that plush foliage . The gloomy colour of the leaves helps the variegate hosta next to them look even brighter .

Tiger Eye sumac ( Rhustyphina‘Balitiger ’ , Zone 4 – 8) in the gloaming giving brilliant orange color .

Dark Dwight Lyman Moody succulent leaf fromSedum‘Dazzleberry ’ ( Zone 4 – 9 )

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