Specialty Gardening: Plants that show good Fall foliage color , 1 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
Thank you DonnaMack, I've enjoyed your photos and suggestions also.
Ah, that explains it, our intent is the same. We both approach the garden as an art form.
I still produce artwork, as a fine artists now, and it is always a conflict in the spring and summer which art form takes precedence - garden or paper. The garden offers as much inspiration to my art as the art does the garden.


We do seem to have a similar color scheme. I also use red as an accent throughout the garden with lots of purple , a touch of pink, soft yellow and I've also started to use the deep red of heucheras like Palace Purple and Penstemon Husker.
In the shade garden I use a lot of white also since it is still visible in the dark.
I see you have mentioned fothergilla gardenii, one of the truly beautiful shrubs. I have it under planted with wood phlox and have 3 of these shrubs in my small garden

Bluebells don't seem to survive for me either but forget -me -nots have seeded everywhere along with common violets. I pull both of those out of the beds proper and keep them on the outside of the rock edgings. The myosotis I keep for color and filler and the violets because they are a host plant for fritillaries. I wish the purple leaved labrador violet was as prolific.
If you can't grow the common for-get-me nots have you tried Brunnera "Jack Frost"? It forms a big clump with variegated leaves and doesn't seed like the others. It's more an accent plant.