Outdoor Plants

November Round-up of Foliage

Foliage Combinations

November can be tricky in the garden design world. October has flash and fire from the autumn color and might still be a wee bit warm in some parts of the country. December is the definitive, no questions asked season where there is no denying that yes, winter is really upon us. But November is that middle ground where you can potentially have some gorgeous sunny, explosive color in foliage combinations or just as easily, twiggy, rotting corpses of branches and leaves and stormy debris.

So, I have decided that this week, I will round up some of the best of the best of what I’ve found for November Foliage interest. Hopefully, this will WOW you with an interesting take on what November may have in store for your foliage future.

Conifer

Some of us live in a Horticultural wonderland where we get to play with plants from all over the world, even if some of them might be a little picky about cold hardiness.
Some of us live in a Horticultural wonderland where we get to play with plants from all over the world, even if some of them might be a little picky about cold hardiness, such as Libertia, Euphorbia, Phormium, and Hebe.

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Layers of decadent conifer texture carry the eye all the way through to the rear when you get deciduous fiery color.

Harriet Greenfield

Harriet runs the edible-bed and soil coverage for Garden Care. She and her partner Tom (a primary school teacher) live in the Adelaide Hills, on a 1,200 sqm market garden Harriet took over from her parents fifteen years ago. The block sits in a frost pocket about fifty minutes east of the city, with a cool-temperate climate that is brutal on tomatoes in October and gentle on brassicas in July. Harriet grew up walking the rows with her father — a third-generation grower — and likes to say she learned to weed before she learned to read. These days she runs the kitchen garden almost single-handedly, sells excess at the local farmers' market each Saturday, and writes for us on weekday mornings before the heat hits the polytunnel. She has strong opinions about hot composting (yes), no-dig (mostly yes), and the marketing copy on commercial seedling tags (no). Her current obsession is heritage tomato seed saving — she has a freezer drawer of envelopes labelled in her father's handwriting going back to the 1970s. She gardens with a kelpie cross called Wattle and two laying hens, Phyllis and Rita. If she is not in the garden, she is probably reading Eliot Coleman or arguing with the Diggers Club newsletter.

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