Painting the garden and landscape with color means more than just pretty flowers. By incorporating a variety of blooms, foliage, textures and patterns, you can create a breathtaking tapestry that will ...

Variegated foliage plants are a kaleidoscope for the garden. Most of these start out as unusual mutations of the cells that produce chlorophyll. When that bright green compound is lacking, other leaf ...

When I help people design home landscapes, a common request is to have something blooming year-round. However, it can be hard to ensure a yard has just the right mix of plants to be perpetually in ...

Some gardeners specialize in growing annuals, some perennials, some vegetables, some grasses or shrubs or vines. I grow leaves. I am particularly fond of foliage. When I'm nursery hopping, instead of ...

Q: I bought a “My Monet” weigela several years ago. It looks healthy and is growing well. I bought it for the variegated leaves, but for the past couple of years, the new growth is just plain green.

The leaves in Lesley Blach’s Sebastopol garden appear almost artistically inspired. Infused among the deep green and glowing chartreuse are nature’s happy mistakes — leaves that appear speckled, ...

Every morning while waiting for my coffee to brew, I spend a few minutes looking out a kitchen window. No matter what the weather, my eye wanders across the garden and never fails to rest on the pale ...

When plants exhibit one or several different colors in their foliage, gardeners refer to them as being variegated. We find them throughout the cultivated landscape, in trees, shrubs, grasses, and ...

You've probably tried growing a succulent before, whether you picked up it as a cute desk plant or ended up with one as a gift. But while you might be familiar with the plump green leaves of common ...

Many people choose variegated plant materials in an effort to provide an accent or a bit of color in their landscape. What can be very frustrating is a few years after planting and establishment the ...