Re: Color emphases on Perennial border design
Dowdeswell wrote:
>
> >
> > I use silvery lambs ear (stachys?) and Artemesia "powis castle" in
> > various places as spacers also.
> >
>
> Here in New Zealand there is a plant "haloragis" (bronze form)
> native to NZ which almost no one uses (because it looks nothing in a
> pot in the garden centre). This plant is a wonderful foliage filler
> and offers a beautiful bronze toning which blends in very well with
> other foliage such as "powis castle" and is an excellent foil for
> pink flowers. We use it to show off pink delphiniums.
>
> Haloragis is easy to propagate by both seed and cuttings. I am not
> sure of it's hardiness but if anyone wants to give it a try I will
> swap them some seed. I am told it will stand at least a little frost
> and know that cuttings taken in the fall would root quickly and
> survive inside over the winter. This plant has bronze foliage in the
> sun, green in the shade. It forms an unruly mound (about 1m2 in a
> year) but trims well and will hold it's trimmed shape for a couple of
> months. It roots where it touches the ground and fallen seed
> germinate in the spring.
>
> Anyone want to try some?
>
> I will collect a little seed and have it ready over the next few
> weeks
>
> Terry Dowdeswell
> 18 Henderson Ave
> Tuakau, New Zealand
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Terry@delphinium.co.nz
> http://www.delphinium.co.nz
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
> message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
Terry,
I would like to try some haloragis. It sounds like it might look nice
with the shrub roses, siberian iris, scrophularia aquatica, filipendula,
astilbe, hardy geraniums and dark leaved varieties of huechera in my
border! Let me know what, if anything, you would like for the swap.
Diane
zone 7 pacific northwest
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
