The day after Garden Bloggers Bloom Day is
Foliage Followup, hosted by Pam Penick of the blog Digging. Every month on the day following GBBD, bloggers showcase the interesting foliage in their gardens.
I'm a recent advocate of foliage in the garden, having spent a large part of my gardening life pursuing the blowsy, full-of-flowers cottage garden ideal in my garden. I gardened almost exclusively with perennials back in Massachusetts. But after the flowers are gone, what's left? Using shrubs for structure and natives for their hardiness and basing plant combos on foliage are all fairly new concepts to me, so I've kind of been going crazy with that in the last few years since we moved here. There are so many interesting combinations you can make with plants based on their foliage. Of course, it would be just my luck now to pair plants for their foliage, and then end up with clashing flowers. I can always cut them off, right?
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| Artichoke and Lambs Ear |
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| Ferns and Heucherella, with a few spikes from a nearby Deschampsia |
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| 'Gold Heart' Bleeding Heart and variegated Petasites |
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| Ornamental Rhubarb, Japanese painted fern and Filipendula |
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| Cimicifuga, Japanese painted fern 'Ghost' and Rodgersia |
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| Bronzy, quilted Rodgersia and fuzzy blue Cardoon |
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| Ostrich fern and Anthriscus flowers |
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| Cimicifuga, painted fern and Columbine |
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| Water droplets pooling on Lady's Mantle (can't resist taking pictures of this whenever I see it) |
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| Lady fern and Fritillaria meleagris seedpods |
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| White-striped foliage of my white Camassia |
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| Sword fern and Cow Parsnip |
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| Cow Parsnip and Ocean Spray (the dirty marks on the fence boards are from raccoons climbing it) |
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| Dicentra formosa and Asarum caudatum |
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| Newly emerging Jack in the pulpit foliage |
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| The one photographed on their website shows lots of gorgeous mottling, here...not so much |
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| Epimedium wushanense, Saxifrage and fern |
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| Hepatica acutiloba and tiny fern |
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| Baby Nasturtium 'Alaska' |
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| I really should clean up the old Crocus foliage. There's always some chore left undone. |
Well, that's probably enough for this month. I hope you pop over to Pam's blog and check out all the other wonderful foliage posts,
including hers.
