{"id":44221,"date":"2013-07-17T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=44221"},"modified":"2013-07-17T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:52:44","slug":"consider-the-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=44221","title":{"rendered":"consider the leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have Pam at Digging<\/a> to thank for hosting this monthly celebration of foliage. This month I’m focusing on some of the leaves that impressed me during recent garden travels as well as examples from the back pages of AGO. If July is exposing bare earth in the garden, that’s a pretty good sign to give some enduring foliage a little more consideration.<\/p>\n

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Hostas and perilla in a Long Island, NY garden<\/p>\n

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Boxwood and Japanese forest grass, hakonechloa, enclose an empty pot in a Long Island, NY garden<\/p>\n

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Sasa veitchii against a low fence of rough-cut logs at Longhouse Reserve<\/a>, Long Island, NY<\/p>\n

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The golden creeping jenny, Lysimachia nummularia, in a container contest at Longhouse Reserve<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bromeliads in the conservatory at Planting Fields Arboretum<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Conservatory of Flowers<\/a>, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California<\/p>\n

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Conservatory of Flowers<\/a>, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California<\/p>\n

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The parterre at the home garden of the owners of Landcraft Environments<\/a>, Long Island, NY<\/p>\n

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A row of succulent-filled urns at Landcraft, Long Island, NY<\/p>\n

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Containers filled with Oxalis vulcanicola and succulents, garden designer Rebecca Sweet’s<\/a> Bay Area garden<\/p>\n

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Dudleyas in a container in the Bay Area Testa-Vought garden designed by Bernard Trainor<\/a><\/p>\n

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Aloe striatula, reddish trunks of Arbutus ‘Marina’ behind a low wall in the Testa-Vought garden.<\/p>\n

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Dark-leaved ginger, Zingiber malaysianum, garden designer Dustin Gimbel’s<\/a> home, Long Beach, California<\/p>\n

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Weeping Acacia pendula, Dustin Gimbel’s garden<\/p>\n

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Palms underplanted with mounds of mattress vine, Muehlenbeckia axillaris, Huntington Botanical Garden<\/p>\n

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Los Gatos, California garden designed by Jarrod Baumann<\/p>\n

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Los Gatos, California garden designed by Jarrod Baumann<\/p>\n

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