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Plant Forms and Styles

Ming fern shade plant Lynne Dobson Central Texas Gardener

First group (for shade)

  • Phlebodium pseudoaureum
  • Ming fern
  • Ramie
  • Golden globe (Lysimachia)
  • Japanese variegated sedge (Carex morrowii) Alocasia odora Persian shield
  • torenia
  • toad lily
  • strawberry begonia

Second group (for sun)

  • Echinacea ‘Sunset’
  • Blue lime grass
  • Echeveria ‘Afterglow’
  • Dwarf Pholmis
  • Rosemary ‘Roman Beauty’
  • bamboo muhly
  • golden barrel cactus
  • sedums
  • Agave Americana ‘Variegata’
  • Dyckia
  • variegated allium
  • Dwarf Hamelia patens

Third Group (full to half day sun)

  • chartreuse and purples
  • Agave ferox
  • Dianella tasmanica ‘Yellow Stripe’
  • Acalypha ‘Ceylon’ (copper plant)
  • Butterfly bush ‘Strawberry Lemonade’
  • Golden pineapple sage
  • Loropetalum ‘Suzanne’ 3-4′
  • Phlomis lanata (dwarf)
  • Little Ollie olive (for sun or shade)
  • Little Giant arborvitae (30′ x 30′)
  • nemesia

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