Foliage Color - Page 32 of 38 - Fine Gardening
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Plant GuideSwiss chard
Beta vulgaris 'Ruby Red'This is a sweet Swiss chard with beautiful candy-apple-red stalks and dark green, crinkly leaves with touches of red.
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Plant GuideBeet
Beta vulgaris 'Bull's Blood'This heirloom beet from 1840 is primarily grown for its tender, sweet, deep red-burgundy foliage, but the beets are tasty when harvested at the 2- to 3-inch size.
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Plant Guide‘Red Threads’ alternanthera
Alternanthera ficoidea ‘Red Threads’Grow ‘Red Threads’ as a warm-season annual in cooler climates, or mass the plants in beds, or use them in a formal knot garden as the Victorians did.
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Plant Guide‘Tricolor’ copperleaf
Acalypha wilkesiana ‘Tricolor’This spreading shrub from tropical and subtropical regions can reach 6 feet tall.
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Plant GuideBlue beargrass tree
Nolina nelsoniiThis yucca-like Mexican plant has bold bluish leaves to 3 feet long that have tiny serrations on the edges.
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Plant GuideSetcreasea pallida ‘Purple Heart’
Setcreasea pallida 'Purple Heart''Purple Heart' is a trailing, tender perennial with purple stems and violet-purple leaves that produces pink flowers in summer.
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Plant GuideOrnamental cabbage
Brassica oleraceaRosettes of cabbage foliage are grown as annuals for fall and winter interest.
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Plant GuideTree tobacco
Nicotiana glaucaTree tobacco bears fleshy, almost succulent, saucer-size leaves that have a lovely silver-blue color.
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Plant GuideWeigela florida and cvs.
Weigela floridaA deciduous shrub, wiegela has gracefully arching branches studded with pink tubular flowers.
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Plant Guide‘Ghost’ fern
Athyrium ‘Ghost’Here's a fern with an upright habit and silvery fronds that give it a ghostly look, hence the name.
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