One of the most important foliage plants in the garden in winter must be the Arum in its many variations. In all honesty I am not sure exactly how many different ones we have growing in our Avocet garden simply because they seem so promiscuous!
They mix beautifully with other foliage plants such as carex and ferns.
Below are two photos of one of my favourite arum called ‘Chameleon’ growing with Carex ‘Ice Dance’ creating a lovely combination, with each enhancing the other. Both of these plants appreciate growing in shade or semi-shade.
The next pair of photos shows arum combined with ferns.
The two photos below show one of my favourites with large almost triangular leaves well marked in white/silver with the addition of splodges of black or purple randomly across the face of the leaf. Each leaf is a good 6 inches long and shaped like an arrow head.
Another of my favourites has virtually no markings on at all just beautifully shaped leaves. When I first acquired this particular arum it had really small leaves just a few inches long, but now after a couple of seasons growing the foliage is much larger. It grows amongst a piece of my Corten Steel sculpture.
We have several with almost plain green foliage, often with just thin pale yellow-green or white lines with each leaf being unique.
One particularly special arum has large, undulating foliage which is marked in a silver -white pattern.
This is probably the most impressive arum that we have in our garden.
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Somehow exotic yet, like ferns, root the garden in a timeless, local, nature. A much under rated jewel of the garden.