1. Shredded Umbrella Plant
Name:Syneilesis aconitifolia
USDA hardiness zones:3 to 8
Size:3 feet tall and 2 foot wide
Conditions : Full sun to partial shade ; fertile , well - drained soil
In the world of big green umbrellas , plant with leaves of the sliced kind carry extra flair . rip up umbrella plant is a ligularia proportional with dissected , fingerling folio grow from foggy silver buds in spring . It is well suited for the border of a refinement garden . Over a few seasons , it colonizes into a formal mass , barely a few fundament wide , but the leaf unfurl into a canopy up to 3 feet tall . In blossom , it ’s not much to look at ; the off - white tufts play 2nd fiddle to the leaves .
2. Ornamental Rhubarb
Name:Rheum palmatumvar.tanguticum
Zones:5 to 9
Size:3 to 5 foot improbable and wide-eyed
Conditions : Full sunshine to fond shade ; dampish territory
What ’s not to sleep together about rhubarb , even if it ’s not harmonizing with strawberry ? rattling fans of bristled , palmate leaves pile up on the crowns of this Asian first cousin to garden rhubarb , which fix a fine ornamental even if you ’re not apt to harvest it for the kitchen . fat , moist stipulation are essential for succeeder . cosmetic rhubarb is prostrate to summertime dormancy in hot conditions , but ample moisture in its root geographical zone usually assure a long - lasting foliar display , even as its crimson and pinkish plumes arugula to 5 feet overhead .
3. Variegated Yucca
Name:Yucca filamentosa‘Variegata’
Zones:4 to 11
Size:20 to 36 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches across-the-board
Conditions : Full Lord’s Day ; well - drain territory
The variegated form of the Great Plains native , this yuccais a fine financial statement flora with spiky texture . In many respects , motley yucca is like its unbanded cousins , but it dissent in that it is a more succinct specimen , only reaching about 2 feet tall without prime and seldom reseeding or colonizing with the fervor of the wildlings . The flower resemble intimate yucca : combs of white bells on 6 - foot - improbable stalk . In a russet scab , the plant bear in precipitous demarcation to surround plantings , even as it flourish in a range of a function of garden dirt .
4. Umbrella Plant
Name:Darmera peltata
Size:3 to 4 feet grandiloquent and wide
Conditions : fond to full shade ; dampish dirt
This Oregon aboriginal does remarkably well in midwestern gardens , breezily weathering heat and humidity as long as it ’s planted in wet soils . Perfect tucked along the edge of a piss garden , umbrella plant has significant leaves that burn with red fall colouring material after steal the show from other - natural spring peak . plant in colonies , these waterside umbrella disrupt expectations with their arresting textures .
Kelly D. Norris is an writer , a plantsperson , and the gardening coach at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden in Des Moines , Iowa .
photo : # 1 , Nancy J. Ondra ; # 2 , Joshua McCullough ; # 3 , courtesy of Plant Delights Nursery , Inc. ; # 4 , Jennifer Benner
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