Today I'm featuring evergreen foliage and newly emerging foliage, the promise of a new and wonderful gardening season.
Gunnera
Lyonothamnus floribundus ssp. asplenifolius AKA Catalinia Ironwood is becoming quite a nice sized tree even after being cut back by an especially cold winter a few years back.
Asplenium scolopendrium, Cyclamen hederifolium.
Leucothoe fontanesiana 'Rainbow'
Myrsine africana 'Scarlett Marglin'
Daphne x burkwoodii 'briggs moonlight' dropped nearly all of it's leaves and made me think I'd killed another one but look, there are new leaves emerging. Oh happy day!
Alchemilla mollis
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'
Aucuba japonica 'Picturata'
Yucca somethingorother
Begonia pedatifida
Only 31 days to the official start of spring though it seems like it's already begun here!
I noticed there was a clump of the black liriope at our new house. It was in the ground next to the deck and I moved it to a raised bed in a retaining wall.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Someone else recently posted photos of their Begonia pedatifida foliage. Mine hasn't done a thing!!! I hope they're not dead. Oh...and did you see my Daphne x burkwoodii 'Briggs Moonlight' when you stopped by? It's looking a little sad too. Thanks for the hope of new leaves.
ReplyDeleteThe standard evergreen fare is nice of course, but even nicer to see spring starting to show up!
ReplyDeleteIs the daphne fussy? I would have thought it was plenty hardy.
Frank
Lovely yucca Peter!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait until things start emerging here! (Don't you know that gunnera photos are forbidden? I don't want to know that species exists anymore, as it's too fabulous and also won't grow here.)
ReplyDeleteIt's always such a relief when something you thought was dead shows signs of life. I know how it feels.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine just how dreary our gardens would be without evergreens Peter?
ReplyDeleteYou've a lovely selection and nice to see that some of your perennials are up and about already.
Lots of new growth...spring is going to be gorgeous in your garden.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. The Aucuba photo sent me out to look at mine. Such a great evergreen for shade.
ReplyDeleteI love that variegated foliage, Peter, especially the Myrsine. I lost my Daphne 'briggs moonlight', so congratulations on its survival. 'Summer Ice' has been a real trooper for me. Spring does seem to be on the way!
ReplyDeleteOh good news about the Daphne! You have so many lovelies re-emerging and showing new growth. Happy spring, and happy Foliage Follow-Up!
ReplyDeleteAnd so doth the new foliage slowly emerge from the depths of the earth, to join those which bravely faced the cold and the dark everlastingly.
ReplyDeleteThat Leucothoe is beautiful. I'm going to look it up but I have a sneaky suspicion I'll find that it doesn't like heat and that it does like water. However, I did just buy myself an Aucuba japonica just last week, though it's not as lusciously yellow as yours.
ReplyDeleteThe Myrsine is new to me, I love it. Also the Lyonothamnus is most unusual, with lovely leaves. I will look out for it.
ReplyDeletehello, your mirsin variegated matchless. tell me where you can buy it. really want such a plant. thank
DeleteYou have some wonderful combos there. I love the chore of cutting back about now, when I can see all the new little shoots hiding under the dead parts. The leaf shape on the Ironwood is super. The edict "No more trees!" may need to be ignored. I sneak them in small, then stand back.
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