Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Best Plant Of Your Garden


Perennials with Purple, Red, or Bronze Foliage

LILYTURF
Ideal for ground cover, the low, evergreen tufts of narrow, leathery, blackish purple leaves form patches in time. It has slender purple-white flower sprays in summer.

NEW ZEALAND FLAX
This flax has stout clumps of evergreen, arching, strap-shaped, leathery leaves, impressively striped red, orange, and pink on a bronze-purple background.

LESSER CELANDINE
The small rosettes or patches of long- stalked, heart-shaped, glossy, chocolate- brown leaves are an ideal backing for the shining, golden yellow flowers in spring.

RODGERSIA
Bronze-red when young, the large clumps of long-stalked, deeply divided and lobed leaves color red again in autumn. White flower plumes are borne in summer. 

ICE PLANT
From late summer into autumn, flattened heads of starry pink flowers rise on stout, fleshy, purple-red stems above the robust clumps of fleshy, bloomy purple leaves.

ICE PLANT
One-of the best of the low-growing purple' sedums, it has fleshy, trailing or lax stems, bloomy foliage, and flattened pink flower- heads in late summer and autumn.

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