Yesterday I wrote about green leaves and asked you to send your best green foliage combinations.
Here's my contribution: I hope you enjoy it. You can have the slight quiz value of trying to work out which genus is my "never say no" plant shopping weakness.
One thing: I'm posting my slideshow here. But so that all the shows to browse are together, please post your addresses as comments to the previous post. Or, add your URL when you comment: then your name will be clickable.
Slight Euphorbia fetish? Also a slight thing for Perlagoniums too? I love the them too. Bought a really good sized Oak leaf one like yours at Vann for £2.75 which I thought was bargain of the century.
Posted by: Zoë | Friday, 27 June 2008 at 04:57 PM
Mine were 4 for £10 at the most amazing plant fair I've ever been to, at Selbourne - not too far away from you actually! This was the first year we've actually made it - usually just see the signs around the lanes and think about going. I am going to do a long post about it next week. Have you ever been? If not you MUST go next year being a Hampshire person.
Posted by: emma townshend | Friday, 27 June 2008 at 05:19 PM
I'm guessing you're a euphorbia junkie. Me too.
Posted by: Victoria | Friday, 27 June 2008 at 06:20 PM
Do you think the correct expression is an Euphorbiphile or an Euphorbist or an Euphorbitionist (seeing as you are showing them off) ?
Very lovely.
Posted by: JamesA-S | Friday, 27 June 2008 at 07:34 PM
Either way (whichever way?) we can save a LOT of time texting: U4bofile, wicked.
Posted by: emma townshend | Friday, 27 June 2008 at 07:52 PM
Ooh, I like that bronze fennel. I've only got the green one growing in my garden...
Posted by: jakers | Friday, 27 June 2008 at 09:38 PM
Great show Emma :-D
Yep... no surprises perhaps, but I love the euphorbias too! I also loved the bronze fennel ikn my garden until it kept seeding in pots that had grasses and I couldn't get it out. I also love your sea holly.
Have a great weekend :-D
Posted by: Shirl | Friday, 27 June 2008 at 09:50 PM
Looks like there's a lot of potential for cross pollination with this meme. You're beginning to like Heucheras and Euphorbias a beginning to grow on me - not literally I hasten to add ;)
Posted by: VP | Saturday, 28 June 2008 at 08:10 AM
I like your choices very much -- your slide show is beautifully green! :) This was a great idea.
Posted by: Nancy Bond | Sunday, 29 June 2008 at 07:09 AM
I liked your slide show but have to say I actively dislike euphorbias. Nasty acidy things with horrible sap. Love heucheras and hardy geraniums though.
Posted by: Obelixx | Monday, 30 June 2008 at 01:48 PM
What a lovely idea on this, my first visit to your blog!
My contribution is now on http://australiannightowl.blogspot.com and comes from our garden in Perth, Western Australia.
I am enjoying checking out all the other contributors - but will be back again!
Posted by: Noella Ross | Monday, 30 June 2008 at 04:55 PM
I've just been through the whole list of comments so far, and I have to say I've seen millions of gorgeous Heucheras and I'm really converted. I don't know if there's a gap for them in my garden, though I just remembered I saw a very fetching Euphorbia myrsinites / dark red heuchera combo at Ox Bot Garden recently.
Obelixx - fair enough - I inadvertently gave myself a "ten years younger" acid face peel the other evening removing a euphorbia that had got in the wrong place... Not sure I look ten years younger yet though....
Posted by: emma townshend | Monday, 30 June 2008 at 05:12 PM
Wonderful idea and a great way to tour blogs.
My post is up on The Gardener Side.
Posted by: Crafty Gardener | Monday, 30 June 2008 at 07:17 PM
Heuchera 'Palace Purple' with Euphorbia amydaloides 'Purpurea' and Stipa tenuissima. Interesting for almost all of the year and especially lovely in late spring. You can get all subtle with it and spot the colour of the euphorbia bracts in the stipa foliage. Marvellous.
Have to say though that some of the new heuchera's being spewed forth and a bit miffy, bordering on utter rubbish, in particular some of the orangey yellow things that look a little like cat sick in a border (I should know) and tend to fry in the slightest wind/strong sunlight.
I thought you looked mighty fresh of face on your other blog Emma. You could bottle it.
Posted by: matthew wilson | Monday, 30 June 2008 at 07:23 PM
Sorry, misspelt amygdaloides.
Posted by: matthew wilson | Monday, 30 June 2008 at 07:23 PM
Okay, I've just realised none of them are green......
Posted by: matthew wilson | Monday, 30 June 2008 at 07:32 PM
"I should know" is very funny.
Can I really put all those burgundy plants in one place and expect it to make sense? Or is the Euphorbia browny-greener than I'm thinking?
If I make a version of this, I will have to send one to VP as she started me off on the long road to Heuchera
Posted by: emma townshend | Monday, 30 June 2008 at 08:38 PM
I like the aeonium schwarzkopf - this is on my "must buy" list - but as yet I have failed to buy it. You also have some other lovely foliage.
Thanks for leaving a comment on mine :) - but mostly thanks for "hosting" it. It was fun to do and fun to visit everyone else.
Warm regards
Karen
PS Same time next year? tee hee
Posted by: Karen | Tuesday, 01 July 2008 at 12:22 AM
You're right Emma, it's a pretty full on burgundy affair but there is enough acid yellow in the euphorbia flowers (and the heuchera too for that matter)and enough neutrality in the stipa to make it work. Just. But then I'm not looking at it in isolation of course, there are some green things in and amongst too, including the best (I think) blue pulmonaria, P. 'Blue Ensign' and a backdrop of monarda foliage. So actually it's more of a five plant combo. Sigh. I really should be more specific in future.....
Posted by: matthew wilson | Tuesday, 01 July 2008 at 07:50 AM
MW is right some of the heucheras can turn out cat sicky.
Beware of 'amber waves' widely voted the heuchera most likely to turn out badly, except apparently in Toronto.
Posted by: Arabella Sock | Tuesday, 01 July 2008 at 08:59 AM
I don't know what everyone's problem with cat sick is.
Posted by: emma townshend | Tuesday, 01 July 2008 at 09:00 AM
I thought you had a problem with cats full stop. Are you now saying that you are happy with the sick but not the producers of the sick? Is your current dog sitting experience (which no doubt involves all manner of 'outputs') softening your anti-feline heart?
Posted by: matthew wilson | Tuesday, 01 July 2008 at 10:55 AM
Hi Emma, pointless comment as promised with intermediate contact address. Try emailing it and I'll reply with personal email!
Posted by: R. Pete Free | Tuesday, 01 July 2008 at 11:14 AM
Oh, it was a joke. I thought it was funny. Sigh.
Do you know those puppies haven't been sick at all? And the mummy dog is still at the stage of licking up all the rest. Ugh. Er, maybe I should just get off this topic of chat.
Nice weather we're having?
Posted by: emma t | Tuesday, 01 July 2008 at 11:15 AM
Heuchera Amber Waves is indeed dodgy but I have Crème Caramel in sun and shade and both are doing well. The sunny one is toned with a Carex Buchananii which looks good even in winter and the shady one is contrasted with pewtery heuchera and a geranium phaeum. It works. Honest.
Spookily, I've also done an MW combo of purpley silver heuchera with a purpley grass but have lost both labels. That works too, repeated as ground cover and winter interest in a bed with roses and assorted alliums.
You could write a whole book on foliage combinations - except Beth Chatto's already done it hasn't she?
Posted by: Obelixx, Belgium | Tuesday, 01 July 2008 at 05:20 PM
Now don't get me started on heucheras. I'm going for the National Collection in my front garden (where I'm doing a thing with heucheras and dry-shade ferns for a purple/green foliage combination). So far my favourite is Heuchera 'Brownies' - leaves about 6" across and a lovely soft purply-brown. Beautiful.
Sorry I missed the day and couldn't join in - but am greatly enjoying everyone's contributions. Thanks for a fantastic idea - it's provided lots of inspiration!
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