Perennials with Deep-cut or jagged Leaves
THE NUMBER OF PERENNIALS with bold, entire leaves has led to an increase in demand for plants that have deeply cut, divided, or jaggedly cut foliage to use with them as a contrast. Fortunately, their number and variety are great, and many of them also have the added advantage of attractive flowers.
RODGERSIA
All rodgersias sport handsome foliage, but this one is particularly desirable. It has large, horse-chestnut-like leaves, and pink or white flower plumes in summer.
ASTILBE
One of the smallest and daintiest astilbes, forming hummocks of ferny, glossy, dark green leaves, and neat little plumes of pinkish red flowers in late summer.
INCARVILLEA
Already attractive with its clump of bold, deeply divided, dark green leaves, this plant really catches the eye in summer when its rose-pink trumpet-flowers open.
BUGBANE
The loose clumps of large, much-divided, dark green to purplish leaves are topped during autumn by long, cylindrical, dark- stemmed racemes of tiny white flowers.
LIGULARIA
Easily recognized, this robust perennial develops large clumps of rounded, sharply divided, deep-cut leaves. Dark-stemmed spires of yellow flowers open in summer.
CHINESE RAGWORT
The creeping rootstock produces stout, dark stems clothed in jaggedly cut leaves. In autumn, substantial, conical heads of yellow flowers emerge. It can be invasive.
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