I've added quite a few foliage plants to my garden this year (and the gardening year's not over for us yet in southern California). One of my most recent acquisitions is
Dampiera trigona 'Purple Wire.' It blooms, as you may be able to detect from the picture below, but the foliage is what landed it in my cart during a
recent nursery trip to Carpinteria. It's a relatively low-growing, clumping plant suited to a rock garden environment so my hope it that it'll find the soil of this former rock quarry hospitable.
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| It's hard to get a good picture of this Dampiera. The foliage really is wiry. |
Another recent acquisition is a diminutive
Phormium, 'Tiny Tiger,' which I picked up on the same nursery trip up north last week. It gets just one foot high and one foot wide so it should do fine in its location along the pathway of my dry garden.
I've also added a mass planting of
Alternanthera tenella 'Crinkle Red'along the pathway in my renovated side garden.
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| 10 Alternanthera tenella 'Crinkle Red' line the pathway |
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| Close-up of Alternanthera |
As of last week, no fewer than 3
Prostanthera ovalifolia 'Variegata' have taken root in my garden.
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| This Prostanthera ovalifolia, placed in the side yard in late September, is getting by on morning sun only so far |
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| My newest Prostanthera ovalifolia, purchased for a bargain price of $8.99 last weekend, is seated in front of a Ceanothus hedge in the back garden |
I've posted about my use of Coprosma repens 'Plum Hussey' in the garden many times (most recently
here) but I've also added the smaller-leafed Coprosma 'Evening Glow' to my collection
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| One of 3 Coprosma 'Evening Glow,' all still relatively small |
But the foliage plants making the biggest impact in the garden right now are still the 2
Persimmon trees we inherited with the house (previously featured
here), which are in their full fall splendor.
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| Persimmon 'Hachiya' in the dry garden |
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| Persimmon 'Fuyu' in the vegetable garden |
What foliage is lighting up your garden at the moment? To see other foliage picks, please visit Pam, the host of the monthly
Foliage Follow-up at Digging.
