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| While I'm asking for suggestions today, what about lime-colored or yellow-colored plants for part-shade? Again, foliage is top priority, need something around 1' to 1.5' high. NO coral bells. Am considering Bowle's Gold sedge (asked in a different thread) but need more yellow or lime for a different area too where I don't want grassy foliage (already sedge and Siberian iris in area, need contrasting foliage form). Man, I used to be so good at throwing out suggestions but I am just tapped out :0( |
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- Posted by echinaceamaniac 7 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 27, 13 at 17:41
| Gold foliage favorites: Yucca 'Color Guard' - these can take part shade surprisingly well. |
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What about Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’ ? I was never keen on yellow-foliaged plants until I saw this combination in a garden on the local garden tour a few years ago:  I'm currently in the process of trying to make a 'golden path' along one section of path leading under the white pines in the garden. The golden forest grass is a significant part of that, along with bright green hostas (e.g. 'Sum and Substance') and ones with yellow variegation. This is a very bad picture but shows pots the grass with a 'Frances Williams' hosta on the patio: Would that grass work for you? Why do you have problems with heucheras? |
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| Like I mentioned, nothing grassy in this area because there is already sedge and Siberian Iris. I'm done with heucheras - they always peter out on me, I'm tired of replacing them. |
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- Posted by phlowerpower 5 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 27, 13 at 19:41
| Tradescantia 'Sweet Kate' but it has elongated foliage. There are some St John's Worts with golden foliage like 'Brigadoon'. Enough sun for some of the yellow euphorbias? I have read some can take some shade. My coralbells are frustrating me this spring. They all die out in the center, even if they are not heaved up and they are still little. |
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- Posted by lola-lemon 5b East WA (My Page) on Sat, Apr 27, 13 at 19:54
| I think the Hosta would be a good choice-- there are so many to choose from. I would recommend a variegated Iris, but since you already have Irises- you might not want more sword shapes. And there is also sunrise euonymus fortune-- but it likes to spread and so you have to chop it off all the time. Never seems to mind tho. |
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| Leucosceptrum japonicum 'Gold Angel' goes by the common name of Japanese Shrub Mint, although it doesn't ramble like culinary mints and despite its size (3'x3') isn't a shrub. It has gold to chartreuse foliage and negligible flowers which come too late in the fall to appear for me. Clematis alpina 'Stolwijk Gold' would like at least 4 or 5 hours of sun if you want blooms, but doesn't need full sun to produce its lovely chartreuse foliage. Not a great photo, but it really does look gold compared to nearby plants. Flowers are sort of a steely blue, less mauve than the photo seems to show.
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- Posted by buyorsell888 Zone 8 Portland OR (My Page) on Sat, Apr 27, 13 at 21:56
| Hosta 'Gold Edger' 'Heavenly Tiara' 'Grand Tiara' 'Lemon Lime' the list of hostas that are all yellow or yellow variegated is pretty long.... Geranium 'Ann Folkard' Dicentra 'Spring Gold' or 'Gold Heart' Golden creeping Jenny though this can be aggressive Scotch Moss Centaurea 'Gold Bullion' perennial bachelor's buttons Bergenia 'Lunar Glow' Brunnera 'Diane's Gold' Corydalis 'Berry Exciting'
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| A word on Ann Folkard: I also live in zone 5a/6, tried AF twice (at least 4 plants in different gardening seasons) and she did not survive. Although word is she's hardy here, she didn't get the message and just peters out in two seasons. |
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