Green in the Garden
A garden designer’s favorite green plants throughout the year
Daniel Mount hails from a long line of wandering gardeners, nurserymen and farmers. He received his first shovel for his…
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From “A Gardener Comes to Terms with Green” in our summer issue of Pacific Horticulture:
Alison Hoblyn, author of Green Flowers, says green “provides a kind of comma, somewhere to rest the eye between stimulating and opposing color areas.”
Maybe it is this restfulness that makes it so easy to ignore.
A peaceful green forest glade. Photo: Daniel Mount
Winter:
Fatsia japonica ‘Camouflage’
Helleborus argutifolius; H. foetidus ‘Wester Flisk’, H. hercegovinus
Helleborus foetidus ‘Wester Flisk’ Photo: Daniel Mount
Mahonia nervosa, Mahonia x media ‘Charity’
Osmanthus decorus
Phillyrea angustifolia
Pinus aristata ‘Skagit’; P. wallichiana ‘Nana’
Dwarf sweetbox (Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis Photo: Richie Steffen courtesy of Great Plant Picks
Sarcoccoca hookeriana var. humilis
Taxus baccata ‘Horizontalis’; T.b. ‘Amersfoort’
Thuja occidentalis ‘ Mr. Bowling Ball’; T.o. ‘Tiny Tim’; T.o. ‘Mossy’
Vaccinium ovatum
Thuja occidentalis ‘Tiny Tim’ Photo: Daniel Mount
Spring:
Various clipped evergreens anchor the garden. Photo: Daniel Mount
Anemone nemerosa ‘ Bracteata Pleniflora’
Arisaema triphyllum
Wallich’s wood fern (Dryopteris wallichiana). Photo: Richie Steffen courtesy of Great Plant Picks
Dryopteris wallichiana, D. crassirhizoma
Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii, E. c. ‘Portuguese Velvet’
Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii Photo: Richie Steffen courtesy of Great Plant Picks.
Fritillaria raddeana, F. affinis
Ornithogalum nutans
Osmunda regalis ‘ Purpurascens’
Redwood sorrel (Oxalis oregana) Photo: Daniel Mount
Oxalis oregana
Paris polyphylla
Polygonatum odoratum ‘Variegatum’
Rhododendron ‘Shamrock’
Tellima grandiflora
Tulipa ‘Spring Green’
Summer:
Astrantia major ‘Shaggy’ Photo: Daniel Mount
Astrantia major ‘Shaggy’
Bupleurum fruticosum
Eryngium yuccifolium
Eucomis pole-evansii
Galtonia candicans
Hemerocallis ‘Lime Frost’
Hosta ‘Niagara Falls’ Photo: Daniel Mount
Hosta ‘Niagara Falls’; H. Devon Green’; H. Aphrodite
Hydrangea paniculata ‘Lime Light’, H. arborescens ‘Annabelle’
Moluccella laevis
Nicotiana alata ‘Lime Green’ Photo: Daniel Mount
Nicotiona alata ‘Lime Green’
Zinnia ‘Envy’
Mosses flourish in the rainy season. Photo: Daniel Mount
Fall:
Mosses!
