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13 matches for “foliage”
- Rose campion…The foliage alone would earn it a place; the colour is divisive and worth it. What it actually wants Poor soil, full sun, sharp…
- Japanese mapleA low, layered mound of fine palmate leaves, fresh green through summer with the newest growth coming through paler at the tips. The flowers…
- YarrowDense flat-topped plates of tiny flowers, this one a hot magenta-pink, held above finely divided foliage that looks more like a fern…
- Bear's breeches…In deep shade you get magnificent foliage and few spikes, which is a reasonable trade. Slugs and snails will shred the new spring leaves…
- Canna lily…Worth checking the rolls rather than the open foliage if you are going out with a torch. Flowering is stem by stem. Each stem…
- MonsteraA climbing aroid from Central American rainforests, sold as a tidy little tabletop plant and entirely willing to outgrow the room you put it…
- Heartleaf philodendronThin stems trailing a couple of feet off the shelf, hung with glossy heart-shaped leaves. Some carry a broad lime-green stripe down…
- Chinese money plantFlat, almost circular leaves on long stalks radiating out from a short upright stem. The stalk joins each leaf in the middle of its…
- White princess philodendronPointed green leaves flecked, speckled and sometimes halved with pure white, on stems flushed pink and red. It is a striking plant and a…
- Rubber plantA tree, really, doing an extended impression of a houseplant. Big oval leaves, thick and leathery, each one grey-green through the middle with…
- PalmLong fronds arching out and over, each one carrying a great many narrow leaflets in a flat plane along a slender midrib. The colour…
- Hardy geranium…Within three weeks you get a complete fresh mound of clean foliage, and quite often a second round of flowers. Doing nothing is the…
- Hollyhock…strip the worst lower leaves as they go, water the soil rather than the plant, and clear all the dead foliage away at the…