I was late getting my Foliage Follow-up post together. On my first pass through my garden I had a hard time getting excited about anything. Then I decided that had more to do with my mental state than my garden so I went out again and took a closer look.
Out along the front walkway, I noticed that
Coprosma 'Fireburst' was finally living up to its name.
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| A couple of months ago, I was seriously considered replacing Coprosma 'Fireburst' but it seems to have developed a deeper color now and it looks good against the Artemisia 'Powis Castle' I used to replaced the Geranium 'Biokovo' that fried in this setting |
I took a closer look at two of the
Coprosma on the other side of the walkway and decided that they were also working out fine.
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| Coprosma 'Evening Glow' with Phormium 'Maori Queen' |
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| Coprosma 'Inferno' with another Phormium 'Maori Queen' |
Then I took time to take closer looks at three of the succulent pots I put together earlier this year. While some of my older creations are seriously in need of a refresh, these three are looking snappy.
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| I don't have a definitive plant IDs as everything I put in this pot came unlabeled but I believe it includes Aeonium 'Sunburst', Echeveria 'Blue Curls', Echeveria elegans, a green Echeveria I can't ID, Kalanchoe luciae, Portulacaria afra variegata, and Senecio radicans |
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| I can't ID the trailing succulent in this pot, although I think the seller told me it's a Crassula. I believe the other succulents include Echeveria agavoides, Graptosedum 'California Sunset', and Portulacaria afra variegata. |
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| Remarkably, all but the bronze Aeonium here came with labels! The bird-bath style planter includes Agave titanota 'White Ice', Graptosedum 'Darley Sunshine', and Sedum reflexum 'Blue Spruce'. |
The sun shined through the foliage of other succulents I had planted in the ground, making them glow.
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Agave 'Joe Hoak', picked up at my local botanic garden's spring sale |
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| More Graptosedum 'California Sunset' along with Aeonium 'Kiwi' and a noID variegated Sedum |
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| Kalanchoe variegata 'Tricolor' |
At this point, I was getting excited about all kinds of foliage so I'll share a few more plants that caught my eye before I end this post.
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| Adenathos sericeus (aka Woolly Bush), still in its infancy |
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| A new Leucadendron 'Jester' picked up last week to complement the Callistemon 'Cane's Hybrid' behind it and the two Grevillea 'Superb' on either side. |
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| I started filling in some of the narrower areas alongside my new (and still partially completed) flagstone path through the backyard using Seslaria autumnailis 'Campo Verde' and Alternanthera 'Joseph's Coat' (highlighted on the right) |
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| These Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Silver Magic' were planted at the bottom of our back slope in January, where the giant Yucca elephantipes once stood to serve as a screen between us and our neighbors to the south. I recently replaced the third shrub, which died during summer's heat (planted outside the photo's frame on the right). The raised planter and wood barrels belong to my neighbor, who has taken measures to protect her sweetpea seedlings from the local raccoons. |
That's it for my November foliage highlights.
Visit Pam at Digging, the host of this monthly meme, to find more fascinating foliage.
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