Garden Vignettes -
The Art of Combining Plants

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Vignette - Dry Shade

Japanese Aralia (Fatsia japonica)

Brown's Yew (Taxus media)

Autumn Fern (Dryopteris)

Coral Bells 'Peach Melba'

Vignette - Full Sun (Drought Tolerant)

Ceanothus 'Victoria'

Rockrose (Cistus)

Maiden Grass 'Morning Light' or
Fountain Grass 'Hamlen'

Lavender or
Verbena 'Homestead Purple' or
Russian Sage

Vignette - Full Sun (Clay or Wet Soil)

Ninebark 'Diabolo' (Physocarpus)

Summer Sweet 'Ruby Spice' (Clethra)

Spirea 'Fire Light' or 'Little Princess'

Vignette - Foundation Plantings (Shade)

Heavenly Bamboo 'Plum Passion' (Nandina)

Sacococcoa rucifolia

Robust Male Fern (Dryopteris)

Bergenia or
Coral Bells 'Raspberry Ice'

Hosta 'Krossa Edge Cream'

Climbing Evergreen Hydrangea
(for brick chimmey or to hide a cement wall)

OR

Heavenly Bamboo 'Plum Passion'

'Rainbow' Leucothoe

Robust Male Fern (Dryopteris)

Coral Bells 'Lime Rocky'

Bergenia

Vignette - Foundation Planting (Sun)

True Dwarf Boxwood 'Suffruitcosa'

Evergreen Azalea

Creeping Thyme 'Pink Chintz' or
Diascia 'Kathrine

OR

True Dwarf Boxwood 'Suffruitcosa'

Variegated Japanese Mock Orange (Pittosporum tobira)

Helianthemum 'Dazzler'

 

Tropical Vignette (Full Sun to Part Shade)

Original Design by Mary Jo

Evergreen Magnolia 'Little Gem'

Chinese Windmill Palm

Hardy Japanese Banana

New Zealand Flax 'Maori Sunrise'

Canna 'Australia'

Begonia 'Sutherlandi'

Groundcover Rose 'Peachy Creepe'

Hydrangea aspera

Low Maintenance Vignette With Conifers (Full Sun)

Original Design by Mary Jo

Pinus densiflora 'Jane Kluis'

Dwarf Balsam Fir 'Nana'

Pinus slyvestris 'Hillside Creeper'

Dwarf Hemlock 'Coles Prostrate'

Dwarf Golden Barberry

Fountain Grass 'Hameln'

Aubrietia 'Purple Cascade'

Helianthemum 'Henfield Brilliant'

Mt. Hemlock

Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac

Backyard Vignette Summer Color & Evergreen
(Full Sun to Part Shade)

Original Design by Mary Jo

Escallonia 'Newport Dwarf'

Phygelius 'Winchester Fanfare'

Helianthemum 'Dazzler'

New Zealand Flax 'Maori Sunrise'

Fountain Grass 'Hameln'

Maiden Grass 'Morning Light'

Oriental Lily 'Star Gazer'