Sculpturally rich in architectural shape & form.
Replete with decadent and ostentatious coloration.
Gardeners with an eye towards detail are captivated
with wild infactuation with foliage plants
and overindulge in their tactile exuberance.
Who could resist pairing the vividly striped spiky red foliage of
Phormium The Guardsman with the big bold yellow and
green zebra striped leaves of Canna Bengal Tiger ?
Photo by Marion Brenner for Garden Design Magazine
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A container planting supports a variety of textures, shapes and forms of foliage.
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Contrasting colors and forms united together poolside.
Pennisetum rubra, lysimachia, glechoma and variegated strawberry
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Textural low maintenance entry :
Tree fern, agave attenuatta, lysimachia, succulents, alocasia + heuchera
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The west coast master of Sexy Savory Foliage Gardens : David Feix
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Simplicity of upright reeds. Equisetum
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Carex, choysia, lamium ,black mondo , chondropetalum and phormium :
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My garden, preparing for a tour on a rainy spring day:
Succulents at front entry , Photo by Lee Anne white for Fine Gardening magazine
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Pagoda style succulent
A spikey tillandsia growing out of an Ensete ventricosum Maurelii
with a plectranthus caressing the trunk of the red banana.
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San Francisco garden show 2008 - Best in Show ,Golden Gate Cup, APLD , Gold medal awards .
Foreground planter :succulents and carex, Midground - bromeliad surrounded by oxalis and succulents, Background bamboo
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* This essay was originally written for inclusion with the Gardeners Roundtable Colloquim,
but upon reflection I have decided to withdraw my inclusion with the group.
An educated woman should be able to speak on what ever subject she chooses whether it be
politics , religion or poo dunk garden design.
Censorship is the antithesis to expressionism in art.
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