Charlotte's Garden

7/28/2005

Variegated fanatic gone wild....

I am a self proclaimed variegated plant freak. I cant help it, when I see a variegated form of even the most abundant plant in my garden it finds its way into my trunk. Theres a majic porthole from my eyes to my trunk and variegated plants open it. Ok so I have been reading to much Harry Potter lately. But I noticed that even taking pictures of whats left of the garden after this summers excessive rains I tend to gravitate to the variegated plants. Some old favorites like the variegated Hydrangea (no garden with any shade should be without them)and some newly found treasures like my variegated Penta I ran into at ace hardware... my husband didnt even say anything, he just picked them up and put them into the basket as he set my dropped jaw back in place with his hand and shook his head. And I cant forget the variegated cape jasmine that Home depot had tagged as Variegated gardenia ( at least I think its a cape jasmine I still havent seen it bloom to verify it) But who needs blooms when your variegated anyway thats just overkill isnt it! And theres even more I didnt post the pictures of like my variegated Jack frost ligustrum and variegated nasturtiums9they looked terrible by the way, WAY too much water!) And that little variegated groundcover I couldnt remember the names of and my variegated Tri color jasmine and my variegated Aung Yo jasmine and my variegated angels trumpet now those still look great with all the rain (yes I said those meaning I have more than one and any gardener knows that means not two but three)oh and then theres my other new favorite my variegated abutilion (didnt like the rain either)... you get the picture? Excessive is the word. The sad part is theres still more out there wating to find me... I saw a variegated Bananna tree in my stokes tropicals book that really wants to live with me. Hmmm... Whre to put another bananna tree.

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