A Selection of Plants with Good Foliage
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ARUNDO donax
Giant reed, growing up to 10ft high! Grey-green leaves. Needs a warm spot in moist soil.
3.00m £7.50
EUPHORBIA characias 'Black Pearl'
Evergreen, with clusters of lime-green flowers with black centres all summer. Not too tall, shapely plant. Full sun.
75cm £5.00
GERANIUM 'Dragon Heart'
Trailing stems bear yellow-green foliage and large magenta flowers with black eyes. Sun-part shade.
PBR 60cm £7.50
PANICUM virgatum 'Squaw'
Red-flushed leaves turn purple-maroon in autumn, panicles of pinkish flowers from late summer.
1.00m £5.00
MISCANTHUS sinensis 'China'
One of my favourites, with dark green foliage and stunning red flower plumes.
AGM 1.80m £6.50
EUPHORBIA epithymoides
Syn. E. polychroma. Mounds of bright yellow flowerheads all spring.
AGM 40cm £5.00
ORLAYA grandiflora
'White Laceflower'. Hardy annual, has lovely, pure white lacecap flowers through summer above fine, ferny foliage, often until the first frosts! Collect seed after flowering and re-sow immediately. Sun. 3 for £10!
60cm £4.00
MONARDA 'Squaw'
Narrow-petalled, tufted red flowers July-September. Leave monarda stems after flowering, look great all winter!
AGM 1.00m £5.00
GERANIUM 'Dreamland'
A compact mound of grey-green foliage, topped with pale pink, darker-veined flowers from late spring into autumn. It never stops!
PBR 40cm £6.00
IRIS 'Jane Phillips'
Eye-catching flag iris, with broad sword-shaped grey-green leaves and slightly fragrant flax-blue flowers in May and June. Always remarked upon in our garden!
AGM 90cm £5.00
VERBASCUM 'Christo's Yellow Lightning'
From Great Dixter, this has densely-packed pale yellow flower spikes in summer above grey-green leaf rosettes. Very perennial!
AGM 2.00m £5.00
AMMI majus
Indispensable hardy annual, a brilliant filler plant for mid to late summer, as seen this year at Great Dixter! Lacy white cow-parsley flowers and delicate ferny foliage. Well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. 3 for £10!
AGM 1.80m £4.00
SANGUISORBA obtusa good form
Lovely silver leaves, and bright pink bottlebrush flowers June-August. Sun.
50cm £5.00
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