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| Plants for
Foliage Colour
Points to remember:
Some plants have good foliage colour
only at certain times of the season - early growth in spring or leaf
colour in autumn. Many plants in our range have silver or grey foliage but
I have only included in this list those that are particularly striking in
the border. Our selection includes only those with good interest for
a fair part of the year. Return
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Blue,
Grey, Silver |
Bronze,
Purple, Red, Blackish |
Golden,
Yellow |
Variegated |
| Achillea |
Most have silver-grey but best are Moonshine and Lucky Break |
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| Actaea
Pink Spike |
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| Agastache
Golden Jubilee |
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| Ageratina
Chocolate |
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| Ajuga |
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| Alchemilla |
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| Anthemis |
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| Aster |
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Calliope,
Vasterival, Glow in the Dark all have black stems. |
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| Campanula
punctata Plum Wine |
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| Centaurea |
Lots have grey
foliage. Best are bella, simplicicaulis,
nogmovii, pulcherrima,
bagadensis. |
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bella Katherine |
| Cynara |
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| Dianthus |
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| Dicentra |
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| Elymus |
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| Geranium |
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Samobor, Lace Time, Katherine Adele |
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Phaum
Variegatum, phaeum Margaret Wilson |
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Ann
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| Helictotrichon |
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| Heliopsis
Summer Nights |
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| Heuchera |
Pewter Moon |
Geisha Fan |
Caramel |
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| Kalimeris |
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Shogun |
| Lychnis
coronaria |
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| Lysimachia
Firecracker |
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| Maclayea |
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| Penstemon
Husker Red |
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| Perovskia |
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| Persicaria |
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Red Dragon |
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Painter's Palette, nepalensis |
| Phlox
Norah Leigh |
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| Pulmonaria
Cotton Cool |
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| Salvia
argentea |
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| Saxifraga
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Wada |
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urbium Variegata |
| Sedum
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| Tiarella
Sea Foam |
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| Tradescantia
Blue and Gold |
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| Trifolium |
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