Foliage Follow-Up: Better Late than Never

On the day after Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day each month, Pam at Digging hosts Foliage Follow-Up to celebrate the important role that foliage plays in our gardens.

Thank goodness our wind storm wasn't as bad as predicted or these Musa basjoo leaves would be shredded.  These always stick around until our first hard frost.  Some years, that means that they're still looking good through Thanksgiving; other years they're brown sooner.




 After surviving last winter in a pot and being plunked unceremoniously in a hole in the heat of summer, Vitis vinifera purpurea actually made grapes and colored up beautifully.  Hopefully this will grow up a blue conifer nearby and create a nice foliage combination.

Inherited Mahonia along with the impossible to kill Petasites fragrans given to me by a friend.  One small plant has taken over a huge space and each year I dig it out which seems to make it more prolific.  Between this and the running bamboo, it might be easier to move than to stay here.



Another Tropaeolum speciosum growing in a bed but this one with fasciated stems. Fun!  Hope it stays for many more years.








Aloe polyphylla made it through last winter outside in a pot sheltered from rain.  It'll come up on the porch this year to keep it dry.

Earlier this year, I thought my Amorphophallus konjac had died because it was so late to emerge. Last year it wintered in the greenhouse and came up much earlier.  It not only finally emerged but