Specialty Gardening: More: CA cottage garden in winter, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
This foliage combo is in one of the two north-facing beds. It gets watered every couple of weeks in summer (the lower bed lives on the runoff from this bed). With a thick bed of compost over clay, most of the plants have done very well here. Oxalis siliquosa, which shows its best color in winter, competes with a chartreuse plectranthus groundcover. Spikey bearded iris leaves and a variegated alstroemeria complete an intricate but pleasing foliage arrangement.