I love flowers but in our gardens they are fleeting and demand more maintenance. Perennials come in stages, flowering shrubs and trees flower for such a short time and annuals add a pop of color but need to be replaced every year. But what we do see all year long is the foliage; this is where color and texture can really break up the monotony of green!
There are some great plants that are available purely for their foliage (the flowers are secondary). The change of color, from either a nice deep burgundy or bright chartreuse, can easily break up the wall of green in most planting beds. Don’t forget about textures as well. Leaves of all the same size and shape bleed together; but adding different shapes and sizes of leaves will break up the border.
There are a great number of plants that use their foliage as their selling point, from perennials to trees and shrubs. Here are a just a few great additions to the garden.
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