A nontraditional color combination for fall is purple and lime or chartreuse green. Actually, those colors have become popular in landscaping for any time of the year, and many gardeners like the striking contrast and beautiful variety of plants that can be found in purple and lime.
What's in the container arrangement by this deep-plum door? The tall, spiky-leaved grasslike plant is Cordyline, while the rust-splashed Coleus is 'Amora'. Other Coleus varieties that feature lime or chartreuse green leaves include 'Antique', 'Bipolar Bigolly', 'Careless Love', 'Charlie McCarthy', 'Max Levering', 'Pineapple Queen' and 'Twist and Twirl'.
Besides Coleus, other lime or chartreuse green plants include:
- Sweet potato vine (Ipomea)
- Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia numularia 'Aurea')
- Heuchera 'Lime Rickey' or "Dolce, Key Lime Pie"
- Euphorbia
- Cut-Leaf Elder (Sambucus racemosa 'Sutherland Gold')
- Sedum makinoi'Ogon'
