If you’d like to add a little pizzazz to your landscape, think about plants that have great foliage colors. Two colors that really stand out are maroons and yellows. So this week let’s look at a few colorful maroon / red leafed plants that you may want to consider to add pizzazz to your landscape or containers! Click here to continue reading.
Although different shades of greens and foliage textures can really make interesting changes and contrasts in the landscape, plants that have colorful foliage (other than green) can really add some zip, contrast, pizzazz, or bring focus to a particular part of the garden, landscape or container. Here are a few of the many plants with interesting maroon / reddish foliage that you may want to consider.
Trees: -Japanese Maple (Acer p. ‘Bloodgood’ / Acer p.‘Dissectum’)
-‘Canada Red’ Cherry
-‘Thundercloud’ Purple Plum
-‘Royal Raindrops’ Crabapple
-‘Crimson Sentry’ Norway maple
-‘Ruby Falls’ Weeping Redbud
Shrubs: -‘Summer Wine’ / ‘Diablo’ Ninebark
-‘Cistena’ Purple Plum
-Purple Smoke Tree (large shrub / small tree)
-‘Wine and Roses’ / ‘Midnight Wine’ Weigela
-‘Black Lace Elderberry’
-‘Crimson Pygmy’ / ‘Rosy Glow’ / ‘Helmond Pillar’ Barberry
Perennials: -‘Palace Purple’ / ‘Plum Pudding’ / ‘Midnight Rose’ / ‘Blackout’ Coral Bells
-‘Voodoo’ Sedum
‘Husker Red’ Penstemon
Annuals: -Orn. Sweet Potato Vine
-Persian Shield
-Coleus
-Perilla
-Cordyline
-Purple Fountain Grass…and many, many more!
