Foliage

We've had enough rain that the foliage on plants is looking pretty good.  I have a variety of colors, textures, sizes and shapes to post for Pam at Digging's Foliage Follow-up.

The coleus is happy and growing in this wash tub in the front yard.

I scattered around some love lies bleeding seeds from last year's plant, and I'm pleased that some are coming up.  This is one I transplanted the day before the photo was taken.  I already had some plants bought, so it will be fun to see which plants do better.  I like the colors of the foliage.

I have two different colors of gazanias.  I like this silver.

I think I've shown the ginger mint in the past.  I sure like it, and it makes good tea.

I've shown a number of these in the past.  I am glad the painter's pallet is doing fine without the shade of the tree.

This is Larry's weird vine that comes up every year, and tries to reach the sky.

I am enjoying the different kinds of sedums I have.

Some of the coral bells were getting some crispy foliage from getting too much sun.  I decided to move them all, and some of the hellebores last week.  I think they will survive the move.

I hope no one is getting tired of seeing milkweed on my blog.  Go by this quickly if you are.  I never thought of it as a nice looking plant, until I started growing it.

I am hoping to get some blooms on the bear's breeches for the first time.  It has grown larger than last year.  This is its third summer.

Euphorbia, 'bonfire':

Chocolate Joe Pye Weed:

Eupatorium 'Prairie Jewel', a relative of Joe Pye Weed, with a plant with red foliage in the background.  This little flower bed in front of the vegetable garden has a theme.  It's yellow or white flowering plants, or plants with showy foliage.

I have borage reseed in the vegetable garden each year.

Larry has a water garden in this tub I got from an estate sale last summer.  The people had told me to put in in a certain area, but I wasn't comfortable with where it was, and kept watch on it as much as I could.   When I was ready to pay, I went to pick it up, and a lady made some comment I can't remember, saying she should have picked it up earlier.  I told her something like if it was there when she saw it, I had already said I was buying it.  Well, I got it, and Larry asked me nicely if he could use it, so here it is.  I like the foliage of the floating leaves, and the reflection of the iris type plant in the water.

I've decided I like the grasses Larry wanted to buy when we first started growing things.

False Baptisia, Globe Thistle, Blue Sage, (I think), and Lead Plant:

I trimmed back some of the stems of the Joe Pye Weed, and left the middle ones so that it will be more shapely, and some of the blooms may be delayed, so the bloom time may be a bit longer.

Well, I'm off to visit more Bloom Day Posts.  Check out Pam's foliage post, and see who else has posted some foliage photos.