Wish List Plants for Foliage

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All right , one last want list post from me , your GPOD editor . This metre , I ’m looking past flowers to foliage that I desire to lend to the garden . Everyone knows that leafage is the ticker of a well - designed garden , as it lasts so much longer than flowers . BUT I ’m very hangdog of being seduce by pretty prime , so I need to really concentrate on abuse up my leafage game this year .

What are your favorite leaf plants ? send out in photos , we ’d love to see them !

This conifer isPinuscontorta‘Chief Joseph ’ ( Zone 5–8 ) . In the summer , it looks perfectly normal . But in the winter , the needles move around this bright yellow . It is slow growing and needs some protection from verbatim sun in the wintertime to keep from burning , but wow — what a colour ! The burlap behind it in this photo is to give it a flake of shade . I claim this photo at Hidden Lake Gardens in Michigan .

Another favorite with yellow foliation : Aralia‘Sun King ’ ( Zone 4–8 ) . Hard to beat that color ! I actually planted one of these last class , but it is still small . . . it takes time to build up to this huge specimen I saw in a garden in Virginia .

I claim this photo of a dahlia at Chicago Botanic Gardens , I just have it away the fertile dark color of the leafage contrasting with the bright yellow blossom ! Unfortunately , I disregard to take a picture of the label , so I ’m judge to figure out the variety . I call up it might be ‘ Happy Days Yellow ’ .

Begoniagrandis(Zone 5–9 ) is probably the most cold - hardy begonia out there . The little pinkish flowers are pretty , but the foliage is really the star , I screw how the backs of the leaves are red .

Bowman ’s root ( Porteranthustrifoliatus , Zone 4–8 ) is a wonderful repeated native to easterly North America . I ’ve always enjoyed its fairly white flowers in the spring but never realized that the twilight color was so just ! This is a clump I see at the Lurie Garden in Chicago .

This may look like a clump of locoweed that is dead and browned for the winter , but actually it is a sedge ( Carexbuchananii , Zone 6–9 ) and it look like this all summer ! Some detest it . . . I love it . This is a plot from my old garden , where it was a pet snoozing spot for my true cat . sentence to plant more in my current space .

Rex begonia vine ( Cissusdiscolor , Zone 9–11 ) is a gorgeous vine I ’ve loved every time I ’ve check it at public gardens , but I ’ve never actually grown it myself . That foliage is just unbelievable !

Okay , one last pic , and this is n’t quite foliage , but it is n’t flowers either . Rather , the dandy yield of wintertime berry holly ( Ilexverticillata , Zone 3–9 ) . This is native to a wide swath of North America and such a great plant . I do n’t know why I do n’t have any at rest home ! involve to fix that this yr .

Winter is always a slow clip for GPOD submissions , so if you ’ve been putting off submitting , please commit in some photos now ! If your garden is abeyant for the wintertime , it is the perfect meter to look through your photo from warmer time and send us some of your pet .

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