Great Foliage Plants

This low-maintenance shrub is true to name creating a stunning display in the landscape.

An easy-care shrub with attractive orange and pink tints during the fall.

This Abelia has creamy white and yellow-green variegated foliage and grows in a tight, compact mound.

This is a dense lower-growing form of Abelia with good leaf retention during the winter.

This new Abelia selection flushes with vibrant yellow foliage that turns to bronze during the fall.

A small tree or large shrub with a broadly horizontal growth habit.

Dark purple foliage on this Japanese Maple makes it stand out from other purple cultivars.

Delicate, red foliage and weeping growth habit make this a beautiful focal point in any garden or small area.

In the early spring it leafs out with a lush bright green. The fall color of 'Seiryu' encompasses shades of light to deep scarlet red. 

A heat tolerant Japanese Laceleaf Maple with purplish red foliage.  Similar to Crimson Queen, but slightly faster growing.

Beautiful green cutleaf Japanese maple. Weeping habit.

Introduced by Schmidt Nursery in 2006. This selection has improved branch angles with less co-dominance producing a better central leader. Red fall color.

A US National Arboretum selection made from a cross between October Glory and Autumn Flame.  It has excellent fall color.

A distinctly upright and fast growing shade tree.  An excellent choice for a narrow area.  Yellow to orange yellow fall color.

Outstanding grass for use as ground cover. Deer resistant.

A small native tree with beautiful white flowers in the early spring.  A slow to moderate grower with yellow to orange to red foliage in the fall.

This native is the result of a cross between arborea and laevis.  Nice growth habit, white flowers in the spring followed by red foliage in the fall.

Great choice for shady areas.  Clumping plant can add interesting texture to a planting

This plant has dark green foliage and is best used in shady areas.

Excellent variegated Aucuba that grows faster than most varieties.

Hosoba Hoshifu is a stunning selection of Aucuba with long, narrow serrated foliage that is speckled with golden white hues.

A dwarf form of the Gold Dust Aucuba, with smaller leaves and smaller growth habit.  A full growing plant that would look nice in any shady landscape.

Crimson foliage along with a low mounding growth habit make this plant useful in any landscape.  Plant in sun for best color.

Low growing Buddleia with blue flowers accented against silver foliage makes this a good choice for any landscape site with sun.

A more compact form of Wintergreen Boxwood that maintains good winter color.

Easy-grow, cold-hardy form of small-leaf boxwood with compact growth habit.

Dark green foliage distinguishes this classic shrub, often used in formal plantings.

A versatile ornamental grass with purplish plumes and deep green foliage. 

An easy-to-grow native plant adaptable to wide range of conditions.  Flowers have a pleasing scent of strawberries to bananas and should be planted close to a walk where it can be enjoyed when in bloom.

Blue Zinger Carex has. as the name implies, blue-green, grass-like foliage that forms dense clumps.

This showy sedge is a great accent for partly shady gardens, and deer will leave it alone.

This bright and lively, clumping sedge does well in the shade.

Native tree tolerant of wet soils. Useful where a smaller growing tree is needed.

This popular plant has blue flowers that accents gray-green foliage late in the spring season.

Slightly slower-growing than the species, this cultivar has pleasing blue-green foliage.

This large, fast growing, blue-green colored conifer, provides striking interest, particularly in winter months.

The upright growth habit and its fine needle-like texture makes this a good choice to add interest to the landscape.

A spreading plum yew with yellow highlighted foliage that forms a nice upright vase shape.

Interesting texture makes this low-growing plant stand out in any planting.  

Masses of purplish-pink flowers on this native tree are spectacular and will brighten any landscape in either sun or shade.

Amazing display of color on every branch.

Dark purple foliage that lasts into summer gives dramatic impact in the landscape.  Grows best in the sun.

Hearts of Gold stands out in the part shade/part sun garden with its large yellow leaves from spring into summer.

Dark purple foliage that lasts into summer gives dramatic impact in the landscape.  Grows best in the sun.

Dark purple foliage that lasts into summer gives dramatic impact in the landscape.  Grows best in the sun.