Be Creative and Add Different Foliage to your Garden Design

Gardening is not only about creating an array of colourful blooms which we all aim to achieve throughout the growing seasons.  Using various kinds of foliage adds a whole new dimension to the garden landscape.  When planning a garden I always look for trees, shrubs and plants that have different textures and colours.

Rockery Bed includes silver ornamental grass, cotoneaster with red berries and varying silver leaved dianthus and sedums as well as variegated iris.

Around the pond area the different textured pond plants and the variegated sedums provide a colourful palate even when the early blooming flowers have faded. 

The smoke bush (cotinus coggygria) is a great shrub to use in the garden landscape for contrast and even the silver leaves on the fuchsia in the container below makes it more interesting than just the regular version. So when you are next out looking for new material to add to the flower beds take in consideration finding something a little more unusual which will enhance your garden design.  

Happy Gardening