Chartreuse and purple

[SWMOgardens]

This is my favorite color combo. Anyone else use it?

[thy]

Nice pics

Sure do specially with the purple Heucheras

[loyal & true]

I really do love the combination. For some reason purples don't do well in my yard---especially the beautiful purple heucheras. Maybe they need more sun than I get. I really like the scattered variegated lirope---makes me wish I hadn't discarded all of mine!!

[Tigger]

We use lots of purple/chartreuse combination in our garden, but not with hostas as in your lovely pics. More with shrubs.

Some combinations:
Purple smoke bush (like yours) with 'Tiger Eyes' sumac
Dark-leaved ninebark (Diablo and others) with bright-leaved ninebark (Nugget and others)
Dark-leaved cardinal flower (like the new Fried Green Tomatoes) with gold pseudoacorus.
Dark-leaved geranium maculatum (Espresso) with chartreuse heuchera (Citronelle).

Actually, I just remembered we have a dark-leaf actea next to hosta 'Dancing Queen'. Other than that, there isn't much purple in the hosta beds.

Gold foliage plants are a punctuation point theme in our garden. We often put them on the corner of a bed to draw you along the path from one planting group to the next. It's especially lovely to wander the garden toward dusk, when the gold plants turn into exclamation points.

[gardengirl13]

breath-taking!! I'd love to do this combo. I saw on TV yesterday a very beautiful chartreuse hosta mixed with a dark purple coleus. Very nice combo!

I'm thinking of doing the coral bells and hosta mix, I'll just need to buy another coral bells!

[Noreaster]

I try to use it, but I find than many of the purple plants need more sun than I can give them to stay purple...and many of the chartreuse ones need a bit of sun, too. It's tough to find color combos that pop sometimes in an all shade garden. I just have green, blue green, yellow green, and white, for the most part!

Pic from last year

[Rosenzobel]

Hello Noreaster- the big one in the middle is wonderfull- which one is this?

[Noreaster]

That's Thunderbolt. It went from five to eight eyes this year, so it's a major leap year for that one. It's one of my faves, for sure....I'll post an updated picture later. I had to move the heuchera that were near it because I figured it would be crowding them too much this year.

[Don Rawson]

Dawn's Early Light and Cimicifuga Hillside Black Beauty

[dash]

Now I have to hunt down a Dawns Early Light . Very nice.

[impatience]

Just planted a tall limbed-up Sand Cherry along with 3 Mellow Yellow Spireas around it where I lost a large purple smoke bush in the '08 ice storm. I think that Chartreuse and purple can't be beat! The combos above are just wonderful.

Tigger, I laughed about your using color as exclamation points. I wish I could get to that level of gardening. When I get a plant I just look out and wonder where that sucker might survive.