Thursday, November 09, 2006
Epimedium La Rocaille
The gardening year can seem fleetingly short, especially when Winter is starting to toy with you; that's why I always grimace when, starting in late October, this gardener or that blogs that the garden is done for the year. We don't live in a climate that I've ever heard described as balmy, but our garden is still filled to overflowing with interesting plants to look at; mind you, we're talking plants here, not flowers, but it's a good time to focus in on the charms of foliage, burnished and bronzed by the cold nights and sharply angled sunlight of late fall. This is Epimedium grandiflora ssp. koreana 'La Rocaille'. In spring finery, shown below, it has graceful ivory flowers with purple accents, with a fine tracing of reddish purple on the leaf edges, and rosy stems. In the fall, shown above, the reddish coloration of the foliage deepens, with bright red stems. 
// posted by IBOY @ 7:10 PM 
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This is a great plant. I love to use in the dry shade areas up here in the pacific northwest. Glad you featured it.
Bob of bobsgarden.com
Bob of bobsgarden.com
Bob... They are addicting; I started out with one or two kinds, and now have maybe thirty. I really like their foliage in late fall-early winter. by the way; you have a nice blog, which I'd not run into before. Some cold day, when I can't get outside, I'll link you.
Don
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