Favorite Foliage Plants

Favorite Foliage Plants for Container Gardening

Alternanthera – Red Thread A nice texture for sprawling thru mixed containers

Begonia Rex – Stunning foliage displays for shade

Coleus – Constant color & diverse shapes unbeatable in the garden or container

Cordyline- A fancy dracaena with reddish foliage

Cynara – Globe Artichoke & Cardoon Tough stately plants for the garden and large containers

Dracena – Traditional green spikes

Dichondra – Cascading metallic silver foliage

Duranta – Gold Edge 1-2’ tall spreading, Green & Gold

Eucalyptus – Silver Dollar very cool tolerant

Ferns – Great on there own or in shady containers

German Ivy – Tough trailing shiny green leaves

Hedera Ivy – Climbing or trailing Part sun – shade very cold tolerant many colors, shapes and sizes.

Heuchera – Peach Melba, Licorice, Key Lime Pie, Black Currant & Many More

Licorice Plants – Popular silver felt-like leaves or Limelight chartreuse to yellow

Lamium – Perennial groundcover with silver-white leaves edged in green, white or pink flowers

Perilla Magilla – A Coleus look-alike best in full sun striking burgundy-magenta

Lysmachia n aurea - Perennial groundcover trailing chartreuse to yellow leaves

Oxalis – Charmed series irresistible violet and jade green

Phormium – An updated spike with more color and texture

Plectranthus  - Tough and easy upright lemon Twist & Silver Sheild. Trailing variegated & purple.

Setcreasea – Vivid purple spreading thick foliage and a new variegated form

Strobilanthes – Striking iridescent metallic silvery purple

Sweet Potato Vine – Vigorous trailing habit Marguerite, Blacky & Tri Color

Vinca Vine – Old favorites for window boxes

Ornamental Grasses

Acorus Ogon – Green and gold grass 6-12” upright mounding

Carex Evergold – Yellow center with nice weeping habit like a spider plant

Carex buchanaii – Copper upright grass nice wiry texture 18”

Cymbopogon – Lemon Grass in our herb selection nice lemony light green foliage 2-3’

Cyperus – Umbrella Pine likes moist fertile soil very exotic up to 36”

Juncus Quartz Creek - Green round stems upright vertical habit 15-18”

Juncus Curly Wurly – Unique green cork screw foliage

Nasella tenuissima – Very fine bright green upright grass 12-18”

Pennisetum rubrum – Burgundy Red fountain grass purple plumes 18-24”

Pennisetum Purple Baron – A compact Purple Majesty apx 36” nice for containers

Check out our full line of Perennial Grass also nice for Big Containers Sun to Shade