Foliage Plants -- Bringing Your Garden Indoors
by Sarah Clark, All About Lawns Columnist
Don't limit your enjoyment of nature to your lawn. Bring the beauty of the outdoors into your home with low maintenance foliage garden plants.
A Foliage Garden
For a gardener who loves leaves, here are some choice plants.
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Listed below are links to local Fall Foliage reports for each state. Use the fall foliage guides to plant your trip for when the leaves are at their finest. Select a sunny day. and go out and enjoy the beauty of Mother Nature.
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Foliage has an essential and complex function in the plant world. It converts sunlight to life-sustaining sugars. In garden design, leaves assume equally important roles.
foliage
The leaves of a plant taken collectively.
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Foliage can also be the conduit for transferring baceteria and herbicides into a plant's vascular system.
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FOLIAGE SELECTIONS
To get you started on the right track, here are some perennials with great summer foliage along with a few placement tips.
Fall foliage offers a beautiful burst of natural color and the changing leaves are a prime tourist attraction in many parts of the United States.
Collect flowers and foliage that will lie flat that lend themselves to pressing e.g. Pansies, Violas Buttercups, Cosmos, Queen Anne's Lace, Daisies from the lawn, or any flower with an open face.
Elegant Epimedium-Foliage and Flowers of Subtle, Sophisticated Beauty
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Cannas have fabulous foliage. Bengal Tiger, with its bold stripes of green and gold is a real show stopper, but I have a sneaky fondness for red flowered cannas with burgundy leaves mixed with the bold bluish burgundy foliage of the castor bean.
The red, purple, copper, yellow, blue or cream foliage color of plants in the following list is generally strongest in spring and early summer. Plants marked with an asterisk* have grey or white-backed leaves.
Early emergence of bulb foliage
Early emergence of bulb foliage is often seen on south or west exposures.
Choose Plants with Colorful Foliage
Choose Plants with Colorful Foliage
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Foliage color: medium green
Foliage texture: fine
Foliage has fern-like effect. Similar to Columbines.
Foliage
Black Mondo grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens')
Boxwood (Buxus)
Caladium
Coleus (Coleus x hybridus)
Cordyline indivisa
Golden creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea')
Ivy (Hedera spp.) ...
Foliage textures and forms. Sharp spikes, soft globes, and all the other forms that foliage and blossoms take can be mixed together for drama.
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Botanical Name
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Foliage-Leaves in general, such as on a branch.
Foliar-Applied to or affecting the foliage (i.e., foliar fertilizers, foliar nematodes).
Foliage Leaves.
Foliar Of or concerning foliage or leaves
Follicle A small dry fruit opening down one edge.
Foliage House Plants:
Ananas bracteatus striatus, Ivory pineapple, good light, 55-65º F, keep on dry side
Cissus rhombifolia, Vine, use support, light shade, 65-75º F, keep moist and fed ...
Foliage - the leaves, or more generally, the green part of a plant ...
The foliage on my peony has blackened and wilted. What can I do?
Peonies suffer from very few pest and disease problems. Nevertheless, they sometimes get fungal diseases, such as botrytis blight, which you describe.
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Garden designers always sing the praises of contrasting shapes, textures and shades of green found in foliage plants. In containers, use at least one-third foliage plants to set off flowering plants to best advantage.
Upright foliage plants, which clump to form think groups. Originally from New Zealand they come in many different sizes from 5Ocm up to 3m tall. As a garden plant they are low maitenance and require moderate watering.
Include foliage plants. 2/3 of a mixed container should be planted with foliage plants. These plants will add color before, during and after blooms.
Lasting bloom. Include plants that flower for an extended period.
Autumn foliage
It's not just large trees such as the red oak, Quercus rubra, and ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba, that put on a firework display of autumn foliage.
Foliage is dark green, with leaves that are 10-12 inches long, and divided into 5-9 leaflets that are each 4 to 6 inches in length. Foliage can be damaged by the and the Brown-headed .
Fall Foliage is a bright gold.
Foliage and seeds have an anise-like flavor.
Propagation:
Fennel are grown from seed. Directly sow seeds into your garden as early in the season as the ground can be worked. Sow seeds early in the season and cover with 1/4" of soil.
Foliage plants often suffer from magnesium deficiencies, according to North Carolina University Extension, because magnesium leaches from the soil and isn't replaced.
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Foliage Pests. A number of foliage-feeding larvae can damage pecans. Some of the most important are the fall webworm and the walnut caterpillar. Watch for infestations of these pests.
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Cut foliage needs to be picked over. Any stray weeds which have become entangled
must be removed, together with occasional broken, yellowed or faded foliage, and any
heavily mud-splattered basal leaves.
The foliage of Geraniums is also often a feature in its own right.. It's frequently deeply textured (and, in the case of G.rendardii, soft and velvety). The foliage in most varieties creates a pretty picture for most of the year in milder climates.
The foliage on your poinsettia should be a healthy dark green, and be carried all the way down the stem to the soil line. Don't purchase a plant that shows any sign of wilting.
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The foliage and stems of vegetable crops, such as potatoes, beans, peas, etc. Also known as bine.
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The fruit of crataegus species, eg, the hawthorn.
Gray-foliaged ground cover with white flowers in late spring
Stokes' aster
Stokesia laevis
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Plant foliage also acts like a "living mulch", cooling the soil under the plants, as well as providing shade.
If the foliage of an infested plant is disturbed the small, white gnat-like adult whiteflies can be seen flying from the foliage like a faint cloud of white dust particles.
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Of the foliage shrubs the variegated Elaegnus pungens ‘Maculata' and E x ebbingei ‘Gold Edge' are easy to grow and bright to look at. Fragrant small white flowers appear on mature plants.
SCENTED FOLIAGE
Trees
Evergreen spp. (Pine, fir, spruce, juniper, cedar, etc.)
Shrubs
Buxus spp. / Boxwood
Comptonia peregrina/ Sweet fern
Ledum groenlandicum/ Labrador Tea
Lindera benzoin/ Spicebush
Myrica pennsylvanica/ Bayberry
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Sometimes foliage is dead, discolored, or absent, even though the branch or twig itself is healthy. Use a knife to make a small cut through the bark to the wood.
Acicular foliage- Needle-shaped leaves.
Acropetal- Developing upward from the base toward the apex.
Adventitious- Plant organs produced in an unusual or irregular position, or at an unusual time of development.
Houseplant foliage should not touch cold windowpanes as contact may damage or even kill the foliage. The below listed houseplants can tolerate indoor temperature as low as 55 degrees F.: ...
The twining foliage emerges with light green lance-shaped leaves and then matures to a glossy, dark green color which produces clusters of white star-shaped flowers in late spring to summer.
Remove dead foliage and withered parts by cutting with garden shears or clean scissors.
Replant the healthiest and most robust of the newly divided plants. Plant with the crown at soil level (avoid planting too deeply).
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Trim back the foliage to ground level of perennials like chrysanths so they can have a proper rest over Winter and prune Hydrangeas down to a couple of bud lengths from the ground and add lime of you want pink ones, ...
Larvae feed on foliage, creating a webbing on the tips of branches where they aggregate and feed in mass. Larvae confine their feeding to leaves they have covered with webbing and characteristically web only the outer ends of branches.
Be sure to add foliage plants for texture and structure; we used mounding green Pittosporum tobira, silvery gray English lavender, and purple fountain grass.
Do not sprinkle foliage in the evening. Wet foliage overnight may encourage disease. Morning watering is preferred.
Watering Plant Foliage
Matt asks, 'When I water, I like to spray the plant leaves in order to clean them off and cool them down. Is this OK?' ...
Fennel seeds and foliage are a main-stay in cuisines from the Mediterranean to the Indian sub-continent. Personally, I never leave an Indian restaurant without grabbing a handful of seed on my way out. Consider them a digestif.
RBLR damages both foliage and fruit, but foliar damage is not significant except in cases of very severe infestations. Leaf-feeding by young larvae produces a skeletonized band near the midrib or veins.
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