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Portrait of a Foliage Color Palette – Silvers
Have you ever gone in to a fabric store and had the clerk snip samples of fabrics to help you with design ideas? You can come up with your own design palette with even the smallest pieces of fabric...
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Triple Threat Foliage Trio
STEAL THIS IDEA! This Heucherella or Trailing Foamy Bells ‘Redstone Falls’ is a lush mix of ruby and autumn tones that have TONS of personality throughout the growing season in sun or shade. Happy in...
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Portrait of a Foliage Color Palette – Refreshing
Sometimes you don’t choose a color palette for a foliage design in a garden, it chooses you. It’s common for me to find that I have subconsciously chosen a very harmonious color combination that is...
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Standout Silver Foliage – Step Into the Light
Silver Pulmonaria shines! In a predominantly gray climate like the Northwest, we get a little hungry for light as you may imagine. As the darker days of autumn creep in and we lose more and more of our...
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New Leaves for 2014
As seed catalogs replace Christmas cards in the mailbox the planning begins! Although I am always ready for a break from regular weeding and hoeing by October it never seems to dampen the giddy...
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Fine Fragrant Foliage
the silvery-grey foliage of lavender cotton highlights the white markings on the fluffy Blue Shag pine. It is usually the intricate shape or fabulous color of a leaf which make us scramble over rocks...
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Try Purple and Silver for a Fresh Flavor
It’s that time of year when we are both creating endless container combinations- each one unique. Always on the lookout for cool new plants and different combinations i seem to find myself frequently...
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Wither-Proof Hot Weather Foliage
Is your zeal for gardening hampered by the heat of summer sizzling your foliage? We’re not even at the “Dog Days” of summer yet when “real” heat can set in and yet you may already be tired of hauling...
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Winning With Silver
What’s the buzz in your garden today? It’s hot, too hot for most of my Seattle garden to handle. Fried astilbe, sunburned hosta and crispy ferns are just a few of my casualties while a semi-naked...
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