Summer in Eric’s Garden

Getting creative with foliage

Today we ’re visiting with Eric Sternfels . We ’ve call his garden before ( Big Garden Small Space , Part 1 ) , and it is always a beautiful pleasure .

I thought I might submit more picture from my garden as give turns to summer . In my garden , I have experiment by group plants with similar leafage colour . Ignoring the conventional advice of juxtaposing foliation for maximum contrast , I believe there are special benefits to grouping bronze orchartreuseorsilvery foliagetogether . The effect is more soothing than planting strategies that have each plant start from its neighbors .

This photo showsHakonechloa‘All atomic number 79 ’ ( Zones 5–9),Hosta‘Stained Glass ’ ( Zones 3–9 ) , and aTiarellahybrid ( Zones 3–8 ) that run together to create a pocket of visible radiation in mydappled - lightgarden . Also group together are bronze / green leaves ofHeuchera‘Plum Pudding ’ ( Zones 4–9 ) , one-year begonia(Begoniahybrid , Zones 10–11 or as an annual ) , andCotinuscoggrygia ‘ Royal Purple ’ ( smokebush , Zones 4–8 ) .

Another view of the same planting .

The silvern tone of lamium(Lamiummaculatum , Zones 3–8 ) flow into theJapanese paint fern‘Burgundy Lace’(Athyrium niponicum‘Burgundy Lace ’ , Zones 3–8 ) . Meanwhile , recent cuttings of ‘ Main St. Beale St. ’coleus(Solenostemonscutellarioides , Zones 11 or as an annual ) repeat the burgundy whole step of the glass pot .

New Guinea impatiens ( Impatiens hawkeri , Zones 10–11 or as an annual ) are place where leaves have ruddy undertones , like the hardyBegoniagrandis(Zones 6–9 ) andLeucothoeshrub ( Zones 6–9 ) and ghostwriter fern ( Athyrium‘Ghost ’ , Zones 3–8 ) at the left . UnderutilizedCarexmuskingomensis(palm sedge , Zones 4–9 ) is a great textural contrast to the commonHosta .

The buds ofblack cohosh(Actaea racemosa , Zones 3–8 ) mime the impulsive “ steam ” in the kettle sculpture .

An unknown cultivar ofAstilbethunbergii(Zone 3–9 ) withHosta sieboldiana(Zones 4–9 ) are the foreground for a out of practice iron mattress spring . Soon to use the spring as a climbingtrellisis a seedling ofcypress vine(Ipomoea quamoclit , yearly ) which is just bulge to mount above thehostaleaves .

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