Plants with yellow or golden foliage make good accents in the garden.
Here are some in Dawn Gardens in Grass Valley, CA:
Golden Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina ‘Laciniata’) summer and fall photos.
Golden Rockrose (Cistus ‘Little Miss Sunshine’)
Variegated Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica ‘Variegata’)
Golden Box Honeysuckle (Lonicera nitida ‘Baggesen’s Gold’)
Vicary Golden Privet (Ligustrum ‘Vicary’)
Golden Cypress (Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Filifera Aurea’)
Golden Oriental Spruce (Picea orientalis ‘Sunrise’)
Golden Japanese Sweet Flag (Acorus gramineus ‘Ogon’)
Golden Snowball (Viburnum opulus ‘Aureum’)
Golden Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’) growing in Portland, OR
Golden Norway Maple (Acer platanoides ‘Princeton Gold’) growing in Alta Sierra, CA
Golden Smoke Tree (Cotinus ‘Golden Spirit’)
Golden Feather (Chrysanthemum parthenium ‘Aureum’
Golden Oregano (Origanum vulgare ‘Aureum’)
Dwarf Golden Bamboo (Pleioblastis viridistriatus chrysophylla) – very invasive
Golden Bluebeard (Caryopteris ‘Worcester Gold’)
Golden Spruce (Picea sitchensis ‘Bentham’s Sunlight) Some of the golden twigs have turned brown due to the 100+ degree temperatures on my deck recently.
This plant has an interesting story; you can read it in the book “The Golden Spruce, The True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed” by John Vaillant (2007).
The golden spruce stood in the middle of a tree farm in Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia, Canada. The tree was a bright gold mutation in contrast to the adjacent forest trees which were dark green. The native Indians, the Haida, believed the tree was a god and was part of their mythology. An unbalanced lumberjack cut it down with his chainsaw in 1997 never more to live. A nurseryman heard about the tree and it’s falling and immediately chartered a plane to fly him up to the Queen Charlotte Islands north of Vancouver. He took cuttings of the tree before it rotted away and brought them back to his nursery where he planted them. You can now buy a Golden Spruce from Conifer Kingdom in Silverton Oregon.
Japanese Forest Grass (Hakonechloa macra) Top photo: ‘All Gold’ on left and ‘Aureola’ on the right. Bottom photo: ‘All Gold’ above and ‘Aureola’ below’
Lomandra longifolia ‘Miner’s Gold’
Golden Barberry (Berberis thunbergii ‘Golden Nugget’) at Legacy Christian School, Auburn, CA
Golden Hypericum
Santolina ‘Lemon Fizz’
Golden Spiraea (Spiraea thunbergii ‘Ogon’)