PLANTS FOR FOLIAGE EFFECT
To make your landscape more interesting, it is nice to incorporate different types of foliage. The following list will provide you with various options to add form and texture to your landscape.
CARE: Poor soils will need to be amended with compost or aged manure and peat moss. Fertilizer application (preferably an organic such as Dr. Earth or Whitney Farms) should be in the early spring and again in early summer. Most plants prefer a full sun to light shade location. If a plant does not receive enough light it will become leggy and tend to sprawl.
*Shade tolerant plants
*Aegopodium podagiaria – Bishop’s Weed |
Variegated leaves |
*Acanthus balcanicus – Bear’s Breech |
Large glossy leaves, spiky flowers |
Achillea tomotosa – Woolly yarrow |
Silvery, ferny |
Ajuga repans ‘Bronze Beauty’ |
Bronze color |
Ajuga repans ‘Burgundy Glow’ |
Tricolor |
Atemesia spp. – Wild sage |
Silvery, lacy |
*Asarum spp. – Wild Ginger |
Glossy green |
*Asplenium ebenoides |
Dragontail Fern |
*Athyrium goeringianum ‘Pictum’ – Japanese Painted Fern |
Maroon stalk with multicolor fronds |
*Bergenia cordifolia – Heartlead Bergenia |
Fleshy, evergreen |
Briza media – Quaking Grass |
Green to beige spike |
Calamagrostia ‘Stricta’ – Feather Reed Grass |
Inflorescence green to pink, green leaves |
Carex morrowii ‘Aurea Variegata” – Japanese Sedge |
Center has gold stripe |
Deschampsia caespitosa – Tufted Hair Grass |
Dark green with fine textured tuft |
Elymus arenarius – Blue wild rye |
Blue-gray color |
Euphorbia cypripssias – Cypress Spurge |
Very soft leaves |
Festuca ovina glauca – Blue fescue |
Silvery blue foliage and tufts |
Gunnera manicata |
Large, bold leaves |
Helictotrichon sempervirens – Blue Oat Grass |
Gray-blue and spiky |
Heuchera ‘Palace Purple” – Coral Bells |
Purple, rounded leaves |
Hosta – Plantain Lily |
Large, succulent leaves, some variegated |
*Houttuynia – Chameleon Plant |
Tri-colored leaves |
Iberis semperviren- Candytuft |
Evergreen |
Iris pseudacorus ‘Varigata’ – Yellow Flag Iris |
Varigated leaves in spring |
*Lamium – Deadnettle |
Variegated leaves |
Laavendula – Lavender |
Blue-green and scented |
*Ligularia dentate – Biglead ligularia |
Kidney shaded leaves, purple with green |
*Lobelia cardinalis – Cardinal Flower |
Maroon stems and leaves with red flowers |
Lychnis coronaria – Rose Campion |
Greyish-white |
Miscanthus ‘Silver Grass’ |
Tall spiky with silver blades |
Pennisetum setaceum – Fountain Grass |
Drooping leaves and fluffy inflorescences |
Penstamon digitalis “Husker’s Red’ |
Maroon Leaves |
Perovskia atriplicifolia – Russian Sage |
Grey-white leaves, airy |
Phalaris arundinacea picta – Ribbon Grass |
Striped leaves |
*Pulmonaria saccharata – Bethlehem Sage |
White freckled green leaves |
Santolina – Lavender cotton |
Silver-gray leaves |
Sempervivum – Hens and chicks |
Fleshy rosettes |
Senecio cineraria |
Silver, white leaves, evergreen |
Stachys byzantina – Lamb’s Ears |
Silvery, velvety leaves |
Thymus – Creeping Thyme |
Small, mat forming |
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