April 2015 Foliage Follow-Up

Thanks to Pam Penick at Digging, we have a meme to celebrate the importance of foliage in our gardens.  Each month on the day after bloom day, Pam hosts the foliar frolic.  Click on over to her blog to see what foliage is catching the eye of garden bloggers this month!   I once tried to have a theme but have given up and just shoot random shots of foliage in my garden that I like. Here, then, is this months offering.

Pittosporum 'Tom Thumb' beginning it's magic of putting out chartreuse new foliage that looks stunning against the dark older foliage.




Crazy rhododendron that I got in a tiny pot at Heronswood a million years ago, has become a very handome shrub and puts out new growth that looks like this year.  Now up to my chest, it's yet to bloom but I chose it for the foliage.
 And speaking of Heronswood, this variegated daylily was among the last plants I purchased there before they shut down a few weeks later.  Wouldn't it have been nice if someone had removed last year's dead leaves before taking a picture?










Pieris Japonica  'Mountain Fire' (The screaming orange new growth goes through a color change before it turns green.)  Pay no attention to the weeds.