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Hi. My name is Kirsten Segler from The Greenery.
What I will do in this segment is introduce you to foliage plants. What I mean by
that is
plants that give out their impact simply with
foliage color, shape and texture.
First one I'll introduce to you today is called
Amarantus Early Splendour. This is a plant we sell
in our bedding plants section so it's in four packs, a dollar and 59, little seedlings
and makes a great feature plant in
beds, borders, planters like this. Gray in the full sun.
On a full sunny day, the pink will just come through,
beautifully bright. The sun shines through it and they do vary quite a bit
in color. So when you buy a 4-pack,
you may get some that have more orange in them
like this head here or half
pink and burgundy and some may be all burgundy. So they do vary quite a bit
in in their colouration, foliage
colouration as they develop throughout the season.
This next plant here is called Duranta 'Gold Edge'.
Again, a great foliage plant. In its natural setting
it will be a lot more vigorous than this. This is a stock pot so it has been sheared back a
couple of times
this season. So in your planter, if you were to plant it
on the edge, which is where it should go. Where it has a draping,
semi-trailing effect. I would
get quite a bit longer. You know, a good foot in length for sure. This is the
most
vigorous in the series. A couple other examples of this plant that
we do sell have a little bit smaller leaves. One is simply called "variegated"
so the dark green edge,
lighter green down the middle. And this one's called "lime"
so it's all chartreuse. And this one obviously
has a chartreuse on the outside. The next two plants here
are upright, tropical foliage plants. Both of them are standout performers.
For a glossy black leaf, nothing beats Pseuderanthemum
'Black Varnish'. In my opinion, the best black leaf plant on the market.
A great centerpiece against other chartreuse-type plants.
And one of my favorites over here,
Acalypha 'Tahiti' has three tones of green
in the leaves. No leaf is ever the same. So just a unique look to it.
A little bit of a serration on the edge of the leaf. And
there are other varieties of this plant. Another one we carry that's
very popular here is called Bronze Pink.
Similar in that, it has three or four different colors
in the leaf. In the bronze or copper shades and the other one are seen on the
green shade.
Just a great plan both for part-sun, part-shade.
These next two plants are classed more as
tender shrubs. A lot slower growing. You have to be a little bit more patient with them.
They are easily over wintered. In containers you can
sort of bring them in and shape them back
and size them up over a couple years that way.
The first one here to my right is Coprosma
'Pina Colada' and just a great,
bright-looking plant. There's another variety we sell here,
it's also very popular. A little smaller leaf but it has
three or four colors in it.
And this one here is called 'Evening Glow'.
Also a very nice, a little upright, shruby plant
so you don't want to plant it too close to some vigorous-type plants because
it will get overtaken in that respect. Half-day sun, half-day shade again
for this plant. To my left, Cistus
'Mickie'. It is actually a shrub that would be hardy
on our West Coast. I know it's grown in Oregon. It does have a
blooming habit in the spring but here we're selling it as a
sort of a hardy basket stuffer for foliage plant. Again, a nice
chartreuse green, bi-colour leaf.
This has sort of a soft,
medium soft habit, sort of pushing out the front. Not nearly as vigorous
as the Duranta we spoke about earlier
but just an all-round nice plant.