Showy Foliage - Page 5 of 69 - Fine Gardening

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    Ornamental pepper

    Capsicum annuum ‘Black Pearl’

    This pepper boasts the most dramatically deep purple-black leaves and fruit imaginable.

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    ‘Ice Dance’ variegated sedge

    Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance'

    'Ice Dance' is a dense, spreading sedge grown for its foliage.

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    Fumewort

    Corydalis solida

    This species produces mauve-pink, purple, or white flower spikes in spring over deeply divided gray-green leaves that are barely 10 inches tall.

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    Lawson false cypress

    Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Ellwoodii’

    This plant has a cypress-like, densely conical form with erect feathery branches of ovate blue-gray juvenile leaves.

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    ‘Alba’ white redbud

    Cercis canadensis ‘Alba’

    Small white flowers appear in profusion on leafless branches in early spring.

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    Broad-leaf sedge

    Carex siderosticha 'Variegata'

    This sedge's pearly, straplike leaves resemble striped ribbon waiting to be wrapped around a package.

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    ‘River Nile’ Rex begonia

    Begonia 'River Nile'

    Unlike other Rex begonias, 'River Nile' isn't flashy.

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    ‘Golden Shadow’ paper mulberry

    Broussonetia papyrifera 'Golden Shadow'

    This golden-leaved version of the southern paper mulberry can be treated as a cutback shrub to control size and for best production of brilliant golden yellow, large, lobed leaves.

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    ‘Golden Nugget’ Japanese barberry

    Berberis thunbergii ‘Golden Nugget’

    'Golden Nugget' is a deciduous shrub with nonburning foliage.

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    Gold-dust plant

    Aucuba japonica 'Variegata'

    The dense, glossy foliage of this evergreen plant is splattered with yellow.