You’re tired. You’re hot. You’re yearning for autumn to set you free. But how your garden looks right now has everything to do with the choices you made in past planting seasons and a lot to do with foliage.

Have you capitalized on the resilient summer foliage options that keep working when the lobelia has melted and the poppies are so over?

This week on The Garden Mixer, Leslie and Marianne explore six of their favorite foliage plants for summer — each choosing a perennial, a shrub, and a tender perennial (aka ‘temperennial’) — and then choose their favorite option from the suggestions sent in by listeners on The Garden Mixer Chat on Substack.

Overall, the girls are in remarkable agreement this week…except for one, notable exception.

What are we looking for in summer foliage? Are flowers a necessity or a bonus? And, how many times, precisely, should a gardener kill a plant before giving up?

All this and Leslie learning the meaning of FFS, on this week’s The Garden Mixer.

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