heuchera

[piranha]

the food country had an embarrassment of new riches; 9 differently coloured variants. so pretty. they also had a lot of mums and coleus, but i don't like coleus much. but i saw another gaillardia that i like ('oranges and lemons'); i might go tomorrow and pick it up. fall discount time has arrived -- time to scout all the local plant places.

the dark burgundy and the dark-veined ones put me back in the mind of creating a goth garden. after i came back from farthingparty (where i got the idea) i made a list of plants i'd like in it, but then the project stalled along with all my other garden projects. might be time to restart thinking about it and see whether i can pick up some starter plants cheap.

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[dubiousprospects.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Oh, that's pretty; I especially like how the plant to the left and up came out. Looks like examples from completely different ecosystems.

[prairierabbit.livejournal.com]

I love heuchera. Mine have done really well this year, and I'm thinking about hitting a plant store or three to see if I can find some cheap to fill in a couple of places in my yard. If I can find the digital camera, I'll try to take a couple of pix this weekend.

heuchera

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i don't have any in my garden (only a tiarella, which is a close relative), but i wish i could make some space.

garden plants!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Gaillardia "Oranges and Lemons" has done well for me. I got it for half off due to broken stems, and it's grown them all back and more. It's about 18" tall at the moment, with one flower at a time. The real star is little Gaillardia "Fanfare", though -- 6-8 flowers at a time for about two months now.

I have someplace a book on dramatic dark plants. I'll check around.

Re: garden plants!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

the o&l one i just bought has tons of buds; i am so excited. and yeah, it's tall; it'll fit nicely right behind the little 'fanfare' which was my previous rescue. they'll be so great next year.

oh, a book on dark plants! that sounds cool. i just got a book on native use of plants of the northern boreal forest which has me salivating.

i need a flower userpic.

Re: garden plants!

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Good news: I found the book on dark plants. Bad news: it's called Black Magic and Purple Passion. Yeesh.

(Good news again: The latest issue of Horticulture contains a marvelous-looking dark-leafed lily, Disporum cantoniense "Night Heron" (www.paghat.com/disporumcantoniense.html). Want!)

Black Magic and Purple Passion

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

*chortles*. what a title. but the book looks good; i put it on my wishlist. thanks!

the night heron is a mere $8 from my local specialty pimp. that's not anywhere as bad as the arisaema i am lusting after, which clocks in at $40.