Showy Foliage - Page 49 of 69 - Fine Gardening

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    ‘Green Spice’ coral bells

    Heuchera 'Green Spice'

    This coral bells cultivar has silvery leaves with vivid purple veins and spires of white flowers in late spring and early summer.

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    ‘Purple Fountain’ European beech

    Fagus sylvatica ‘Purple Fountain’

    'Purple Fountain' is a deciduous, columnar, dark-leaved tree with bronze-purple, wavy margined leaves and cascading branches.

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    ‘Orange King’ coleus

    Plectranthus scutellarioides ‘Orange King’

    ‘Orange King’ exemplifies one of the loveliest characteristics of coleus, the ability to glow like stained glass when struck by sunlight.

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    ‘Amazing Red’ New Zealand Flax

    Phormium 'Amazing Red'

    This New Zealand flax has dark reddish brown leaves that form a neat clump less than 2 feet tall and about as wide.

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    Variegated Japanese silver grass

    Miscanthus sinensis 'Variegatus'

    Variegated Japanese silver grass is a boon in any garden where fine texture, a gentle color scheme, and a bit of swaying in the wind are welcome.

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    ‘Centenaire de Rozain-Bourcharlat’ Indian shot

    Canna 'Centenaire de Rozain-Bourcharlat'

    This 3-foot-tall canna from the 1920s has impossibly deep, pure-rose flowers recalling orchids and leis.

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    ‘Looking Glass’ Siberian bugloss

    Brunnera macrophylla 'Looking Glass'

    This brunnera cultivar has a silvery, heart-shaped leaves that are mostly everygreen.

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    ‘Frydek’ elephant’s ear

    Alocasia micholitziana ‘Frydek’

    Satiny deep green to black leaves and glowing white veins on 18-inch-long leaves make this elephant’s ear great in containers, in a shady border, at the edge of a pond,…

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    ‘Maradco’ beautybush

    Kolkwitzia amabilis 'Maradco'

    Anyone who has grown beautybush knows that it puts on a spectacular pink flower display in late spring and then it goes incognito the rest of the year.

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    ‘Bronze Wave’ heuchera

    Heuchera villosa 'Bronze Wave'

    'Bronze Wave', bred from the native Heuchera villosa ,  is, like its parent, renowned for its vigor and resistance to heat and humidity.