Foliage Follow-Up June 2014

Our Foliage Follow-up this month (a follow up to yesterday's Bloom Day) is going to be a bit unique. Instead of highlighting individual foliage plants I will be sharing instead a few snaps showing the interplay of foliage in our garden.

I mentioned yesterday that I felt I struggled a bit looking for a decent collection of flowering plants in our garden. As I was about to finish doing that post I realised that I didn't do too bad at all and I still came up with a sizable collection of what's in bloom for the month of June.

Foliage however, now that we don't have a shortage of. So much so that when thoughts of cataloguing individual plants growing in our garden I immediately dismiss it as that's going to be a huge task. Interesting but not worth my time (even my plant geekiness has its limits).

Just to spice this post up a bit I won't be naming any of the plants featured on the photos. Anyone out there up for the challenge of trying to name as many plant as they could from what can be seen on the photos?

We join Pam Pennick of Digging as she hosts Foliage Follow-Up for the month of June!

Mark :-)

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Foliage Follow-Up April 2014

First it was the flowers and now it's the turn of the foliage as we join Pam Penick of Digging as she hosts the Foliage Follow-Up, a celebration of foliage plants that fascinates this month in the garden.

Here's a few of ours...

Like butterflies rising from the ground - Jeffersonia diphylla

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Foliage Follow-Up November 2013

We missed out on the Bloomday meme this month and our Foliage Follow-Up (which technically makes it a no follow-up as it didn't have anything before it to follow...) is perhaps a few days late but as they say better late than never!

Euphorbia stygiana glistening with morning dew. All photos on this post were taken on a
particularly misty and dewy early last Saturday morning.

The tricky thing is being able to take photos of the garden whilst there is still daylight during the week, in a period when daylight is short hence more often than not it's dark already by the time either of us gets home. So most photos we take of the garden during the colder and darker months are at weekend unless specified so. That's our excuse anyway for not getting into Bloomday but at least Foliage Follow-up we can do.

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