Perennials offer a wide range of variegated options. Some of the most common include Variegated Autumn Sage, Variegated Perennial Wallflower, and Variegated Hosta.
Variegated Autumn Sage (Salvia greggii ‘Desert Blaze’) is a round bushy plant with bright red flowers nestled amongst its beautiful cream-edged foliage.
Perennial Wallflower (Elysium ‘Bowles Variegated’) has attractive grey-green and cream foliage. As an added bonus, this plant produces stunning purple blooms from spring through fall.
Variegated Yucca (Yucca filamentosa ‘Color Guard’) has vibrant green edged gold foliage which sports tones of pink later in the season. Variegated Adam’s Needle (Yucca filamentosa ‘Bright Edge’) is a striking Yucca with leaves that are edged with creamy white to yellow color.
Spotted Deadnettles (Lamium maculatum) is a beautiful groundcover with 2-inch-long, serrated green leaves which have white edges. Its flowers range from white to shades of purple and pink.
Stonecrop (Sedum kamtschaticum ‘varigatum’) is a extremely easy to grow succulent. This particular variegated variety is compact growing to only 4“ tall and 12“ wide. In late spring to summer, its star-shaped yellow flowers open from pink buds and mature to crimson.
Hosta (Hosta ‘Guacamole‘) is one of many variegated hostas. Hosta ‘Guacamole’ has green foliage with darker green margins. This plant forms large, dense clumps. ‘Guacamole’ does best in partial shade, where the sun can brighten the richly veined leaf centers. Later in the season 3-foot-tall flower stalks shoot up from the foliage upon which bloom fragrent white blooms.
Variegated Fragrant Solomon Seal (Polygonatum odoratum) is a wonderfully graceful shade plant with long white edged greens leaves. Its leaves form off of arched burgundy stems. This perennial is a season long joy. It wonderful foliage in the spring; fragrant, white flowers in May and June; and vibrant golden tone in fall. This plant forms large colonies of long, arching, 2- to 3-foot-tall stems of soft green leaves edged in creamy white. From late spring to early summer, this species bears white flowers that mature into spherical black fruit in autumn, when the foliage turns yellow.
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