Leaves; Much to Desire!

[Tim Ingram]

Now many alpine flowers have gone over, foliage really comes into its own. Somehow we concentrate very strongly on flowers but they are often fleeting. One of the great features of alpines is their foliage, so these are a few examples!

Lupinus albifrons
Petrophytum hendersonii
Salvia cyanescens
Tanacetum 1
Verbascum dumulosum
Asplenium ceterach 1
Azorella 1
Helichrysum milfordiae
Raoulia australis
Stachys citrina

[Martin Baxendale]

Love the asplenium.

[Maggi Young]

Lots of super foliage, Tim.
I've edited your post to include the file names so the search facility can find the photos .

[Tim Ingram]

Maggi - thanks for your edit! I did wonder whether to remove the names and start a guessing game! Most of them are fairly obvious though.

[Tim Ingram]

Martin - the Asplenium has been  a good success, growing in pure gritty sand. It tempts me to try other xeric ferns (Asplenium trichomanes grows well too). If I could grow some of the Cheilanthes that would be extremely exciting!

Here is another batch of contrasting foliage - the silvers in particular do well in our dry garden.

Aciphylla aurea
Alyssum stribrnyi
Anthemis marschalliana
Aquilegia scopulorum
Astragalus angustifolius

[Tim Ingram]

My fault - the loading was taking so long I thought something had gone wrong with it! The remaining images.....

Callianthemum anemonoides
Centaurea cineraria
Dryas octopetala 'Minor'
Erodium celtibericum
Rhodanthemum hosmariense

[Tim Ingram]

Maggi - I am in your debt again for editing the last two entries, thank you. Just a few more to continue the theme.

Othonna cheirifolia
Artemisia canescens
Daphne arbuscula & Artemisia schmitiana 'Nana'
Cotyledon orbiculata

[Lesley Cox]

Love all your leaves Tim. So often we go for the flowers and under-rate the foliage yet as you say, it has a much longer season in most cases and we should value it more. I especially like all the silvery greys. Is the Othonna what I have as Othonnopsis cheirifolia? I find it a real devil to propagate from cuttings and I only ever had a couple of seeds one year.

[Tim Ingram]

Yes Lesley - I knew it as Othonnopsis until its name was changed! We've never managed to root cuttings very well but get a modest number each year. It rarely flowers freely, but I've never thought of checking it for seed. It has that same sort of unique presence as that remarkable Australian 'Veronica' Parahebe perfoliata.

[Lesley Cox]

Mine does actually flower very well Tim, different climate from yours of course. It looks good in or out of flower with Euphorbia myrsinites. I love that combination of sea-green and lime-green.

[Roma]

Some attractive foliage last month
A collection of Heucherellas I bought earlier this summer
Papaver ? fugax
Petrocosmea iodiodes aff.  The label also says very close to P. sericea.
Pulmonaria 'Majeste' - what can happen when under a tree.

[ChrisB]

My Othonna cheirifolia bloomed last year, but it got knocked for six by the snow last winter.  Its recovered now but no flowers yet.  But I grow it for the foliage effect.