First I want to link to a website that I think is the color pallet and style you like. We would add more pops of colors with existing plants (pinks, purples, soft reds). They have limes/brights, with texture, and the inclusion of pots.
https://www.gardengatemagazine.com/articles/design-ideas/all/color-and-texture-garden-paulsen/
Plant Suggestions:
Each plant is hyperlinked to a site that gives a display of what it looks like in and out of bloom. In the note I sent via text, put a check on the plants that you like. That’s an easy way for me to keep an organized list of what to incorporate if possible in the design.
Don’t look at the price and don’t think about placement. The price isn’t what it would be locally, and I just need to know whether you like the actual look of the plant.
Plants with texture:
- Silver Mound
- Winecraft Gold Smokebush or Winecraft Black Smokebush
- Ninebark: Tiny Wine Gold or Gingerwine Ninebark
- Euphorbia: Rainbow Ascot or Miner’s Merlot
- Sunshine Blue Caryopteris
- Spider Web Fatsia
- Lupine
- Raspberry Splash or Dark Vader Lungwort
- Jack Frost Brunnera
- Colorguard Yucca
- Zagreb Coreopsis or Golden Sphere Coreopsis
- Hens and Chicks
- Yellow Twig Dogwood or Ivory Halo Dogwood
- Little Bunny Fountain Grass
- Elijah Blue Fescue
- Ice Plant —– comes in different colors, but I have had a lot of success with this variety
- Dwarf Hemlock
- Anna’s Magic Ball Arborvitae
- Pancake Thuja
- Golden Mop False Cypress
- Blue’s Festival St. John’s Wort
- Popcorn Snowball Bush
Fragrance
- Variegated Daphne
- Pieris: Flaming Silver ….. there are a lot of different varieties
- Bloomerang Lilac
- Double Take Flowering Quince
- Viburnum– JC Hardy Raulston or Moonlit Lace
- Honeysuckle
- Garden Rose
- Sugar Shack Button Bush
- Mt. Airy Fothergilla —- just goggle… has cool blooms, and awesome fall color
- Little Prospect Witch Hazel
- Dianthus — Pink Cheddar or Orchid
- Garden Phlox….. lots of color options
- Mock Orange….. Mojo Pittosporum
- Daffodils
- Aphrodite Sweetshrub
Additional Favorites
- MyMonet Weigela or PurpleEffect Weigela
- Hostas
- Pugster Butterfly Bush — I personally love the blue
- Hydrangea — Limelight Prime or Fire and Ice
- Midnight Marvel Hibiscus
- Mountain Laurel
- Veronica — lots of colors
- Astilbe — lots of colors
- Lewisia
- Golden Dragon Yew
- Indian Flair Mahonia
- Floralberry St. John’s Wort
- Double Doozie Spirea
- Candy Corn Spirea
- Millenium Allium