Purple, yellow and variegated plants - love em or hate em??

[shushkin!]

Personally I love them. I dont know what I would do without my
golden leaved philidelphus to brighten up a shady spot.
My black elder "black lace" looks stunning against my silver leafed eleagnus.
Everyone asks me what it is and wants on. It makes a fab backdrop to
my intensely bright coloured flowers eg lychnis coronaria and dahlias.

[GardenFaery]

I like all colours, shades and variations in my garden - I have just repositioned pinks and lavender and admired how the pink's silver-green/grey foliage offsets the lavender's 'greener-green' even before either have come into flower. I'm growing dahlias for the first time from seed this year - any tips?

[WendyC]

I like variety in leaf colour however don't like gold leaves and pink flowers on the same plants. Also some heucheras have strange leaf colours and look like they need a good feed!

[kentishgal]

I especially love silver, pink and purple leaves. I bought a lovely purple/black leaved ipomea recently that Im trying to grow up the drainpipe next to the back door!

[Glutton4...]

I like anything that contrasts what is surrounding it. A bright acidic green against a dark shrub or in a dark corner. Silver foliage among greens. Spikes among rounded leaf shapes. It all makes for a more interesting garden, in my opinion. However, like most people, I suspect, I have plants I don't like. I seem to have inherited a few 'non-favourites' in my current garden. These include Sycamores galore Choisya and Jasmine, the latter of which have been allowed to 'do their own thing' previously and a selection of other shrubs and plants, that I actually really like, but they were planted in totally the wrong place, with little or no consideration to their mature size.

[elleme]

Mostly, I'm okay with those colours but it depends on the individual plant. I don't mind variegated Vinca major, but with the smaller leaved minor I feel the variegated ones often have a dusty look compared with the green. I like some yellow-leaved plants such as my golden oregano, but I've never liked Choisya 'Sundance' at all and I spade-pruned a golden Thuja which was inherited from the previous owner of the house. I can't think of any purple leaved plants I dislike, though and have black lace elder and a purple Heuchera in my front garden. I'm fond of contrasts too.

[chris]

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[veggiechicken]

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You OK, Chris??
I like variegated and coloured leaves because, unlike flowers, they are there all season so form an integral part of the colour scheme. Evergreen (ever-yellow/red/etc) ones are particularly useful for brightening up a winter border.

[chris]

Think so !

[Thelma Sanders]

but I've never liked Choisya 'Sundance'

I'm with you on this one -there's also a variegated weigela that looks a bit odd in flower...............

So Purple, yellow and variegated plants? They're not all good and they're not all bad would have to be my answer.
As always it's a case of getting the right plant to go with it's neighbours and location - not always easy for the less 'artistic' like me...................sometimes I can only tell that I've got it soo wrong after it's planted and growing

[veggiechicken]

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Think so !

Good, because it will only heal once you stopping piccing it......