the 10 best plants with pretty foliage

Pull on your gardening gloves and start planting these plants with pretty foliage, so your garden can wow people all season long.

This hardy perennial should be at the top of your list for its glorious colors. It's available in an array of eye-catching shades.

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Coleus has incredible red, green, and maroon patterned or solid-colored leaves and comes in upright and trailing varieties.

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It's impossible to ignore the brightly colored red and green heart-shaped leaves of caladium.

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In early spring, this perennial has clusters of pink or purple flowers, offering a welcome spot of color after a long winter.

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Also known by the unfortunate name of dead nettle, this pretty plant has green and silver leaves with white, pink, purple or yellow flowers in late spring.

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The leaf colors come in every shade of green from chartreuse to blue-tinged, with variegated and frilly-leafed types, too.

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These tall, stately plants have gorgeous flowers, but many varieties also boast stunning foliage.

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Add a splash of color to window boxes & hanging baskets with this vining annual. It comes in bright green, burgundy & a flashy variegated type.

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Just as you'd imagine, these bold tropical plants have huge leaves that resemble, well, an elephant's ears.

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This hardy plant has silvery, lacey foliage that contrasts beautifully with other foliage plants or flowers.

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the 10 best plants with pretty foliage

Pull on your gardening gloves and start planting these plants with pretty foliage, so your garden can wow people all season long.

HEUCHERA

This hardy perennial should be at the top of your list for its glorious colors. It's available in an array of eye-catching shades.

COLEUS

Coleus has incredible red, green, and maroon patterned or solid-colored leaves and comes in upright and trailing varieties.

CALADIUM

It's impossible to ignore the brightly colored red and green heart-shaped leaves of caladium.

PULMONARIA

In early spring, this perennial has clusters of pink or purple flowers, offering a welcome spot of color after a long winter.

LAMIUM

Also known by the unfortunate name of dead nettle, this pretty plant has green and silver leaves with white, pink, purple or yellow flowers in late spring.

HOSTA

The leaf colors come in every shade of green from chartreuse to blue-tinged, with variegated and frilly-leafed types, too.

CANNA LILIES

These tall, stately plants have gorgeous flowers, but many varieties also boast stunning foliage.

SWEET POTATO VINE

Add a splash of color to window boxes & hanging baskets with this vining annual. It comes in bright green, burgundy & a flashy variegated type.

ELEPHANT EAR

Just as you'd imagine, these bold tropical plants have huge leaves that resemble, well, an elephant's ears.

DUSTY MILLER

This hardy plant has silvery, lacey foliage that contrasts beautifully with other foliage plants or flowers.

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