Some foliage

We all love flowers, but how about showing us some pictures of plants you like for their foliage.


Geranium maderense - not hardy but possibly the most spectacular of all Geraniums, especially when its in flower.


Echium pininanna. Another spectacular plant - under the right conditions the flower spike can reach 14 feet or more. But still nice as foliage.


My giant Dandelion. Sonchus congestus. Its already three feet across and will get bigger.


Sutherlandia frutescens. This has that lovely pea family foliage.


Solanum sisymbriifolium - sticky nightshade. Its coverd with spines - even the leaves.


Banana - Dwarf Cavendish. More dwarf than Cavendish at the moment. :D


Salvia argentea. The leaves really are as soft and strokeable as they look.

Has anyone else got some foliage plants?

 

The sonchus looks a strange one Peter.

And the argentea is good but I bet it dont like rain.

I think the Musa is zebrina, maybe?

 

Pete - That Sochus is a really odd plant. Its a member of the dandelion sub family, within the Daisy family, and has yellow flowers just like a Dandelion. But It can grow up to 12 feet high !

I am not up on Bananas. This one was purely an impulse buy. The label said Dwarf Cavendish. I gather the cavendish bit is a species. Can you have a Cavendish zebrina, or is zebrina a seperate species? or does the name Cavendish cover more than one species. I believe that it produces the edible bananas that sell in suoermarkets, but is difficult to overwinter even under glass. Actually I have just had a Google and am now even more confused.

 

Reason I say its zebrina is because I bought one on impulse also, just the other day.

I dont think it related to cavendish as its grown from seed apparently, so I have read.

 

I'm not showing any of that to my husband PeterS or we'll have nothing but foliage plants. Just lovely, but I want my flowers and vegetables.
DH would just have the foliage jungle if he got his way.
Our garden is a work in progress, only been here 2 years, so maybe the terrace will end as a showpiece for foliage. Hum, Ho, here we go !

 

Hope you don't mind me adding a few Peter, here are a some from the back garden.
Musa Maurelii.


Hosta.


Canna Tropic Yellow.


Athyrium Nipponicum Pictum.


Pittosporum Eugeniodes Variegata.


Begonia Grandis Evansii.

 

Lovely pictures Strongy. And thanks for adding them - that was the objective of the thread. For people to show something a bit different from the normal flowers - so lets have some more folks. :D

That banana is lovely - I have a feeling that I could get quite into in them. Its what I love about this forum - you get drawn into all sorts of areas that you wouldn't have gone into on your own.

 

Likewise, thanks to your pics, I have become more interested in hardy perennials now, I guess it works both ways.:thumb:

 

I think I can come up with a few.

You will love the smell of the flowers on this one:D


Melianthus major


Can I sneak a cactus in


Name escapes me at the moment


An Aeonium thats good for summer bedding


Only small but I think this will be a winner Peter