Lovely Leaves.

It ’s a long meter since I wrote about foliage in the garden and yet it is such an of import element . I use it a destiny , not just as a foil for my blossom but to make an atmosphere of its own . I bang to apply green to make enticing paths like this ancient brick route which is lined with ferns and to begin with in the season grandiloquent angelica . Overhanging the path is an old mulberry tree on one side and an ancient apple Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree overhangs the wall on the other side . The cherry-red rose is a jarring note and I will probably move it .

You approach it through this gate at the other end .

Half path down the path thisKalopanax septemlobuslooks quite alien with its prickly bark and big leaves ..

But today I want to verbalize about my Henri Rousseau , hobo camp garden . I have made a little itinerary of stepping stones leading in to it and I like the green burrow upshot invite you in to what attend like a secret path .

The jungly essence of this part of the garden is heighten by the bright , bold color of the dahlia and other flowers , but more importantly , it is the foliation which is even more efficacious and eventually it will probably make too much shade for the dahlias . But that is fine because I fuck the jungly effect of interesting foliage . The leaves of thisTetrapanaxpapyrifer ‘ Rex’are enormous and it is suckering and spreading so it is understandably happy here . Behind it is the fearless bananaMusa basjoowhich is form a nice lump . Even though it is reasonably intrepid , I give it a fleecy jacket crown in winter . To the right is the black bamboo , Phyllostachys nigra .

I have another type of dauntless banana relation calledMusella lasiocarpaor the Golden Lotus banana which is supposed to have prominent fortunate lotus case flowers . It is still young but it endure last wintertime outside .

The foxglove tree diagram , Paulownia tomentosahas huge leaves too if you cut it down in the spring . You give the flowers this way but I develop it for the bluff leaves .

More height is provided by this marvellous reed Arundo donaxvar . ‘ Versicolor ’ another present from the breakwater garden .

I love it with the finger ofSchlefferataiwaniananext to it

When I made a video of the garden a calendar month or two ago , I enounce that the next bush is aShlefferabut I made a error , it is really an unusual Castor Oil works calledFatsia polycarpa‘Green finger ’ . I love the shiny , direct leaves .

Giant plants impart to the jungly gist and I have quite a few of these marvelous rarified tree dahlias you see in the next exposure . The semen came from New Zealand and they are the result of Cross between the tree dahliaDahlia imperialisand hybrid garden dahlias . They were bring forth by Dr Keith Hammett who sent seeds to Matthew at Riverside Bulbs who gave them to me to grow on and he kindly permit me keep some . As they are newfangled to this area we do n’t get it on whether I will get any flowers before the first frosts . Dahlia imperialisblooms in the fall . But never mind I wish the size of the flora and it is awing they have grown so heavy in their first year from seed .

Next to it is theEucalyptus gunniiwhich I chop down each year because I do n’t require it to get too heavy and I care the rotund , adolescent leaves .

Nearby there is the gilded noodle treeCatalpa bignonioides‘Aurea ’ which can also be stooled each year to get Brobdingnagian leaves .

Next to the noggin tree there are grasses , the evergreenPittosporum tenuifoliumand the gray foliage ofEuryops pectinatus . I have establish that this is hardy and it make its yellowish daisy blossom ahead of time in the saltation .

I have a variegatedPittospermum tenuifolium‘Elizabeth ’ here too which is lovely for flower organisation .

An unusual shrub which is much admired in this part of the garden isRubus lineatus . It is a lovely industrial plant with pleated leaves and nobody believe it is a member of the blackberry family . I have study that it has edible yield but mine is three years old now and has never fruit . But I hump the foliage .

Quite a few of the foliage plant here are are arise from seeds I have picked up on my locomotion . The loquat , Eriobotrya japonicacame from Italy . I do n’t think it will flower or fruit in this land but I love the leafage . Next to it is a genus Cistus which I grew from a seed from Corsica . It has shining pink flowers in June but I would grow it anyway because I love the silvery grey leaf .

The olive tree in the above picture was a present from my Logos as it had grown rather too big for its pot on his groyne garden .

On holiday in the Peloponnese in Greece I incur the source for this prettyMelia China tree tree . I have never seen it acquire in the UK so I thought that perhaps it is n’t hardy , but it has lived outdoors for two age now . So far it has not flowered but it doesn”t matter as I love the leaf .

I like the lacy leaves with the potent upright foliage of the variegated yucca .

Cannas supply good foliage too . They are loose from seed , or they would be if the ejaculate were n’t like ball bearings with incredibly tough cutis which you are supposed to sand paper before sowing . I managed to take the skin off my digit crest without making much impact on the seeds . Still I did grow thisCanna musifoliawhich has banana type leaves .

I have several red leaved and stripey leaved cannas but my favourite is this variegated one call ‘ Stuttgart ’ .

At ground level I have hostas and ferns and to my astonishment a couple of caladiums which I had forget I had and they survived outside over winter .

When I first made this jungle garden three years ago the Dahlia pinnata were the master characteristic and last year I had an tremendous number of additional dahlias which I grow from semen to add to the Dahlia pinnata delight . I still love them as they flower from June until the first frosts and are marvelous for picking too . But now that the foliage plant have matured I hump them just as much , if not more than the dahlias . Colour comes and goes but the shapes and texture of leave are a constant joyfulness . And they are so tactile ; they can be woolly or silky , burnished , wrinkly or waxy . I ca n’t remember who wrote that without foliage , flowers just look like colourful hay but I agree with that . Of course , interesting leafage sets flowers off attractively . But interesting foliation is interesting and beautiful in its own right wing . I ’m not sure if a love of foliage is an develop taste like oysters which come to us in matureness . But I have intercourse it more and more and I am even contemplating a foliage garden with no flowers at all for my next project . But we will see .

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It ’s the collocation of various leaf shapes and forms that make this monochromatic green garden so inspiring to me ! I have a shorter jungle on the north side of my house that I proceed to get as an Asian garden , consummate with a concrete lantern and a great leaf - shape water dish . Yes , it ’s also a skirt sanctuary , of sorting , too .

Like you , I am enjoy foliation more and more . Next on my inclination might be a canna ‘ Stuttgart ’ to light up a corner ! I love your web log very , very much . Martha Strain North Carolina

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