The Red Garden

 

Lobelia tupa June 2009

Lilium pardalinum June 2009

 

Heuchera americana ‘Bronze Beacon June 2009

 

Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Purpurea’ March 2010

Berberis thunbergii ‘Crimson Pygmy’ March 2010

Red is vivid, warm, hot. Here are some plants to redden to your garden with foliage, flowers & fruit. Not many plants have red foliage, even fewer purple. Both are included below.  Red flowers range from tomato to wine. Combine them to create striking effects. Wine-red flowers blend with blue & purple, tomato-red with orange & yellow.  Pink flowers look very nice against red or purple foliage.  Lilium pardalinum (Leopard Lily) is a California native that frows well in the Pacific Northwest.  Lobelia tupa is a xeric Chilean native, probably the biggest Lobelia you have ever seen!  Sinocalycalycanthus raulstonii ‘Hartlage Wine' was named for Richard Hartlage, a director of the Center for Urban Horticulture. See it at the Miller Garden.

Plant List

Small Trees

Acer circinatum (Vine Maple): red fall color

Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’ or ‘Garnet’ (Japanese Maple): red foliage

Arbutus unedo (Strawberry Tree): red fruit
Catalpa x erubescens 'Purpurea': purple foliage

Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ (Eastern Redbud): purple foliage

Shrubs

Berberis thunbergii ‘Crimson Pygmy’: red foliage

Callistemon rigidus or subulatus (Bottlebrush): red flowers

Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide’: red flowers

Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple': purple foliage

Daphniphyllum macropodum: red petioles

Hebe anomala ‘Purpurea Nana’: purple foliage

Hydrangea ‘Lady in Red’: red flowers & purple foliage

Hypericum androsaemum ‘Albury Purple’: purple foliage

Nandina domestica ‘Plum Passion’ (Heavenly Bamboo): purple foliage

Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Diabolo’ (Ninebark): dark reddish foliage

Pieris ‘Forest Flame’: red new foliage

Rhododendron ‘Jean Marie de Montague’: red flowers

x Sinocalycalycanthus raulstonii ‘Hartlage Wine': red flowers

Viburnum sargentii ‘Onondaga’: red new growth & fall color

Weigela florida ‘Java Red’: red foliage & flowers

Perennials: most with red flowers

Achillea ‘Paprika’ or ‘Cerise Queen’ (Yarrow)

Astilbe ‘Fanal’ (Ostrich Plume)

Centranthus ruber (Valerian)

Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ (Flaming Iris)

Eucomis ‘Oakhurst’ (Pineapple Lily): purple foliage

Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Purpurea’ (Purple Wood Spurge): red roliage

Gladiolus ‘Atom’

Hemerocallis ‘Cranberry Cove’ or ‘Red Volunteer’ (Daylily)

Hesperaloe parviflora (Red Yucca)

Heuchera americana ‘Bronze Beacon’: purple foliage

Imperata cylindrica ‘Rubra’ (Japanese Blood Grass): red foliage

Knautia macedonica

Kniphofia ‘Nancy’s Red’ (Red Torch LIly)

Ligularia dentata ‘Othello’: purple foliage

Lilium pardalinum (Leopard Lily)

Lobelia tupa

Paeonia ‘America’ or ‘Kansas’ (Peony)

Papaver orientale ‘Brilliant’ (Poppy)

Penstemon pinifolius

Schizostylis coccinea (Crimson Flag)

Sedum ‘Matrona’: purple foliage

Trillium chloropetalum

Tulipa vvedenskyi

Groundcovers & Trailers

Ajuga reptans ‘Bronze Carpet’ (Carpet Bugle): red foliage

Gaultheria procumbens (Wintergreen): red berries

Sedum ‘Bertram Andersen’: purple foliage

Sedum ‘Vera Jameson’: purple foliage

Sedum spathulifolium ‘Purpureum’: red foliage

Thymus serpyllum ‘Coccineum’ (Red Thyme): red flowers