Foliage Follow-Up January 2018

Foliage Follow-Up is hosted by the inimitable Pam Penick at Digging on the day after Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day each month to remind us of the important role foliage plays in our gardens every day of the year.

Here are some random shots of foliage that caught my eye while wandering through my garden.

This hardy begonia is in a sweet spot outside, still in it's nursery pot, and hasn't died back.  Yet.

Fatsia polycarpa 'Needham's Lace' is looking very happy.  I'd failed a couple of times with this plant before and am elated that there are now two thriving in my garden.

Trevesia aff. palmata, a hardy relative of Trevesia palmata.  It's also still in it's nursery pot.  Must find a place for it in the garden!

Disporum cantoniense 'Moonlight' is an herbaceous perennial.  Please don't tell this specimen as it looks like it wants to be evergreen.  I certainly don't mind.

I never tire of the seemingly endless variation of patterns of cyclamen foliage.

Pelargonum deciding not to die.  

My sister and niece bought me a Chief Joseph Lodgepole Pine for my birthday years ago.  It got some sort of insect pest beneath the bark and I thought it was a goner but isolated it in a pot and did a little chemical intervention, and in a couple of years it revived.  Finally got it in the ground last summer and it's now coloring up nicely.

All the other Persicaria microcephala 'Red Dragon' in the garden are nothing but leafless stems but this one, a division, pulled as a weed and thrown in a shady corner to die, doesn't seem to know it's winter.

A really cool variegated shrub from Cistus (the tag is around here somewhere) along with a cool miniature mondo grass from somewhere.  Please ignore the dead stuff and the now exposed orange pot in the background.

Finally, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Pelt’s Blue' is really very blue.  Now if I can just get Tropaeolum speciosum to grow up all of these in my garden, my life will be complete.

What foliage is thrilling you in your garden this month?