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Re: plant combinations

Carolyn:

In about two weeks I'll have this combination: the emerging purple-red 
foliage of a small Japanese maple ('atropurpurea' I think), underplanted 
with the peach-orange tulip 'Apricot Beauty'  and single early purple 
tulips (I'd have to look up the name), plus a grouping of golden-leaved 
Milium effusum 'Aureum'. This is a sunny spot right now but it will be very 
shady in a month or so (I'll yank out the tulips when they're finished). 
I've done this area before with 'Princess Irene' tulips (orange with purple 
flames) and once (when a company sent me the wrong tulips by accident) 
bright red ones. They all looked great with the maple and the yellow grass.

For a pot, in the summer, in pretty heavy shade, I intend to combine 
Begonia sutherlandii, with tangerine flowers, with a dark purple coleus 
that's supposed to keep its color in shade, and chartreuse-leaved ivy.

There is a book called "Creating Contrast with Dark Plants," by Freya 
Martin, one of those maddening books you realize too late is British and 
not American. It has a (too small, in my opinion) section on suggested 
designs. I can tell you some later if you like.

Nancy Stedman, NYC



At 09:06 AM 4/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Carolyn,
>a few suggestions:
>
>Annuals:
>Ipomoea batatus 'Blackie', the dark-leaved sweet potato vine.  It's great in
>combinations.
>Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum', purple fountain grass
>
>Perennials:
>Ajuga 'Chocolate Chip' & 'Bronze Beauty'
>Eupatorium rugosum 'Chocolate'
>Geranium 'Elizabeth Anne' or 'Cappuccino', if you can find them
>Origanum 'Herrenhausen'
>Persicaria 'Red Dragon'
>Polemonium 'Purple Rain'
>Sedum 'Mohrchen'
>
>Shrubs:
>Weigela Wine & RosesTM ('Alexandra') and Weigela Midnight WineTM
>
>JF
>
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