I know you got some...

Summer flowers are generally the stars in gardens . However, variegated foliage and colors of foliage in golden yellows, purple, red, orange foliage of trees, shrubs, and vines can also be the star in summer gardens .

A few from my garden...

Lovely display!! Yes things have re-emerged for the year everywhere! Get those cameras clicking!!

Wow, Bea! Ok, here's mine, as I promised you. An assortment or coleus, an EE, and I thought I'd throw in this zinnia, It's variegated!

Thank you Gina 1960..

Not only tropicals have interesting foliage. I love tropical plants. Here out in the garden I have just lost a few windmill palms due to freak ice storms . I have a few tropical plants I baby inside all year. Can put them out on the patios in July thru sept.
So I look at tropical plants and on the forum. Your collection is fabulous.

that is sweet of you to say. I am very short on things like zinnias....I bought 5 packs of seeds this spring and NONE of them came up. I was so disappointed.

Oh ... that means you can start a new batch. Do you start them inside or insitu ?

gardenfish... wow beautiful foliage all beautiful garden favorites. Just spotted your post. Happy to see so many. Isn't it funny once we look for multi colored foliage we find more than we thought.

I was surprised how many were in my garden and still have a boat load left .

I miss having some of those annuals... so beautiful . They grow so fast and coleus and many others have so many multi colored foliage varieties. I think it helps break up all the green and , "Screams look at me! Definitely gives the garden a focal point .

I always do my zinnias outside. Never had any luck doing them inside. The one in the pic was one I bought. Actually, the first one ever that I've bought! I just fell in love with the color.

gardenfish.. it's a beauty... zinnias are always full of striking colors.

well I did them out in the garden in March. We were already in the 80's and some 90's in March so it was certainly not cold that caused germination failure

Nope, it wasn't. Gina, they sprout and grow so fast, you could try again, I think you have plenty of time. I do sow them thick, so I may not be getting all the varieties I plant to germinate. I'll have to wait and see when they start blooming. I think I planted 12 varieties this year. I really need to be more methodical about it, like writing down which ones I plant and putting tags in the garden where I planted them. Well, there's next year to do that! I planted a lot of marigolds, tithonia, cosmos and cornflowers at the same time. At least I can recognize those seedlings! I did plant the tithonia in the middle of the bed because they will be the tallest.

Here's some of mine from today

My young but rapidly moving Monstera aurea variegata going towards its new totem








Monstera albo-variegata





Colocasia 'Elepaio'


Variegated Alocasia amazonica


Philodendron White Wizard

Beautiful!

Well I have these....
My Philodendron Birkin, that I bought solely for the purpose of seeing how long it would take for it t produce an aberrant leaf (hasn't yet)


My variegated Rhapis palm


A rare syngonium variety called 'Byrd'


My new Hoya macrophylla variegated

Caladium 'Hilo Beauty' (used to be ALocasia Hilo Beauty but was transferred to the Caladium genus)

Omg 😱 those are just 'STUNNIN"... that last leaf really is gorgeous.

I bet you have millions in the greenhouse.. one of these days hoping for a full tour of your greenhouse plants .

I have more I need to take pics of.... Brazil philo, a hoya, and some Japanese MGs with variegated leaves, hoping to get pics today.

They sound wonderful...

I have some variegates but a lot of my plants are species aroids and few of them are variegates. I am always on the lookout for some new variegated plants though

I was surprised to see the variegated leaves pop up in the Japanese MG seedlings, but Joseph on the ipomoea forum assures me that several varieties have them.

I had this single stalk of Dr. Moy come out with a half and half variegation on an otherwise routine Moy





Ctentanthe I planted out last year under a palm tree

This stand of variegated ALocasia is getting crazy huge leaves