In the right bottom corner of the large group picture, you can see the foliage of Tricyrtis hirta 'Miazaki', whose purple spotted flowers, in late summer, compliment the fern. The lance shaped foliage is a contrast to the other shapes in the group.
Now, what do you all think? Is this successful or awful? Should I take out the hosta? If so, do you have any suggestions for a plant to take its place?
See ya' later!
Other Places To Go
- How To Be Your Own Landscape Designer; Planning Your Garden
provides a nice overview on the principles involved in landscape / garden design, including illustrations for the visual building blocks of shape, color, texture, scale, proportion, etc. The principles apply to creating one tiny area of a garden as well as an entire landscape.
- Tom Clothier's essay on Garden Design & Philosophy 101 hits the mark in so many ways. It's just one of the enjoyable and useful items on his web pages. If you haven't discovered "manytimes" yet, visit him and don't forget to bookmark; you'll want to return...many times.
- Kim Tripp tells about the colors and textures in conifer foliage, bark and cones; elements that give your garden interest the year around.
- For another take on using foliage color in the garden, read our own Carol Wallace's Foliage all around me: And Not a Drop of Green
More About The Plants Mentioned Today
- Since hosta are featured in today's article, you may be interested in finding out more about this marvelous species. The Suite's own Diane Pederson grows them in whiskey barrels and leads you to more links.
- For more information on hostas as well as links to photographs of many named varieties, visit The Hosta Page
- More about Hosta montana aureo-marginata.
- The Suite's daylily guru, Helen Roddy, keeps us all informed about Hemerocallis.
- Read about Tom Tadfor Little's introduction to the genus Hosta in a climate far from their native one.
I've written in more depth about some of the plants mentioned today in previous articles:
- Stylophorum diphyllum (Celandine or Wood Poppy)
- Cimicifuga s. ramosa
- Athyrium niponicum var pictum (Japanese painted fern)
- Begonia grandis
- Tricyrtis hirta 'Miazaki'
PHOTO CREDITS
All photographs were taken in Marge Talt's garden.
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