Plants With Golden Foliage That Stand Up to the Summer Sun

Check out these beautiful, tough, and low-maintenance plants to add a spot of gold to your Southern Plains garden

Go for the gold this summertime with arresting lucky foliation . All too often the intense Sunday and heat of summertime on theSouthern Plainscauses chicken foliage to plough a wash - out tan . These golden lulu stand up to our summer sunshine and keep on shine .

Lime Sizzler™ firebush provides a 5-foot mound of gold in areas with good drainage

I make love to produce the sun - love Lime Sizzler ™ firebush ( Hameliapatens‘Grelmsiz ’ , Zones 9–11 ) in containers , but it perform equally well in garden beds . Do n’t let the name fool you — there are quite a little of golden hue in the foliage , which is chiefly yellow with splashes ofchartreuse . Orange flowers set the plant alight from early summertime through crepuscle and are ahummingbird favorite . In southern Texas , the plant grows as a dieback shrub that produces a 4- to 5 - infantry mound each season . In cool surface area , this bid perennial can be grown as anannualor call for indoors over wintertime . Though set up plant aredrought patient of , be certain to provide container - grown industrial plant regular moisture . Good drain is a must for firebush .

Royale Pineapple Brandy™ coleus’s golden leaves add a punch to the border

Whether you are look for a splash of thick burgundy or radiant gold to break up the border , you ca n’t go wrong with suncoleus . For stunning favourable hues strain the survival of the fittest Royale Pineapple Brandy ™ ( PlectranthusscutellarioidesColorBlaze ® Royale Pineapple Brandy ™ , Zones 10–11 ) . The textural leaf is golden icteric to chartreuse with burgundy edges that make each deep - cut leafage stand out . Part of the heat - tolerant ColorBlaze ® Series , this coleus blooms very late in the time of year ( if it blooms at all ) , eliminate the need fordeadheading . works do well in sun or shade in any well - drained soil . This well - branched variety give 20 to 30 in tall and 12 to 16 column inch wide .

‘Lightning Flash’ coreopsis offers surprising color in areas with poor soil

One does n’t usually equate coreopsis with colorful foliage , but ‘ Lightning Flash ’ tickweed ( Coreopsistripteris‘Lightning instant ’ , Zones 3–8 ) is not your common coreopsis . The narrow foliage starts out vibrant yellow in spring and cool to chartreuse by midsummer . Growing 3 to 5 feet marvellous and intimately one-half as all-encompassing , this species thrives under dry to average out moisture in poor soil . Plant it in full sun to delight lily-livered summer peak typical of the species .

Twist of Mango™ abelia is an excellent low-maintenance, pollinator-friendly shrub

I ’m a big lover of abelias — the “ go anywhere , do anything ” shrubs . Low maintenance ? Check . Pollinator - friendlyflowers ? Check . Drought large-minded ? Check . And with varieties like Twist of Mango ™ abelia ( Abelia×grandiflora‘RNTOM ’ , Zones 6–10 ; not pictured ) , we can tote up colorful foliage to the list . This mixture starts out bright yellow in spring and darken to atomic number 79 during the summertime . surrender adds tone of bronze to the golden leaf , which is semi - evergreen . This low - growing cultivar reaches only 2 invertebrate foot in high spirits , spread 4 to 5 feet wide . Abelia grow in sunshine to shade , but leafage color is good in full sunlight . It tolerates a miscellanea of soil condition .

‘Sunshine’ privet is a tough-as-nails shrub that doesn’t spread

I had my reservations about arise a privet , as they are sleep with to be encroaching , but the gold - leaved selection ‘ Sunshine ’ ( Ligustrumsinense‘Sunshine ’ , Zones 6–10 ) is sterile . Unlike other privets , this variety does not bloom . No flowers means no source — and thus no seedling popping up throughout the garden ( or natural field ) . So I afford the plant a endeavour . It for sure lives up to its name — theevergreenfoliage simply glows in full sun . This plant life also draw the test in trials at the Dallas Arboretum . It is a slow grower and can be sheared to your centre ’s mental object or provide to reach its mature sizing of 3 to 6 feet tall by 3 to 4 human foot wide . And it ’s still a privet , which means it ’s easy to grow in any soil ( I have it in clay ) with moderate moisture .

— Kim Toscano is a horticulturalist based in Stillwater , Oklahoma . She antecedently hostedOklahoma Gardening , a weekly PBS television program produce by the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service .

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