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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. Our selection includes only those with good interest for a fair part of the year.  Hover your mouse pointer over the orange dot to see more information or clarification.

Plant Blue, Grey, Silver Bronze, Purple Red Golden, Yellow Variegated
Achillea Most have silver-grey but best are Moonshine and Lucky Break      
Actaea Pink Spike      
Agastache Golden Jubilee      
Ageratina Chocolate      
Ajuga      
Alchemilla      
Anthemis      
Boltonia      
Campanula punctata Plum Wine   Red-bronze overlayed with Silver    
Catananche      
Cynara      
Dianthus      
Dicentra  Stuart Boothman and Bacchanal      
Elymus      
Eryngium Yuccifolium, zabellii, pandanifolium      
Euphorbia myrsinites, niciensis, rigida      
Geranium   Samobor, Lace Time, Katherine Adele    
Geum     Ann and Eos  
Helictotrichon      
Heliopsis   Summer Nights    
Heuchera  Pewter Moon Plum Wine, Chocolate Ruffles Caramel  
Kniphofia      
Lychnis      
Lysimachia   Firecracker    
Maclayea      
Nepeta      
Penstemon Husker Red      
Perovskia      
Persicaria   Red Dragon   Painter's Palette, nepalensis
Phlox Norah Leigh      
Pulmonaria Cotton Cool      
Salvia argentea      
Saxifraga urbium Variegata      
Sedum Purple Emperor      
Sisyrinchium striatum     Aunt May
Stachys byzantina   Primrose Heron  
Tiarella Sea Foam       Green - black
 
All prices are for mail order only. Plants for sale from the nursery and at events and shows may be larger and at correspondingly higher prices.

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