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The palette includes bergenias, pinks, cranesbill, hypericum, liriope, hostas, fatsia, and even nandina and yucca.

Leslie loves shades of green, so Kat included plenty of feather reed grass; laced the old fence with trumpet vines; and planted a big-leafed, spreading fatsia in the shade beneath the sequoia.

One of the truly cherished rarities in my garden is Sinopanax formosanus, a relative of Schefflera and Fatsia.

Walk around the back of the house, and you’ll find dozens of bamboos, fan palms, fatsia and scheffleras you’d never recognize as such.

Fatsia Horrida.—This is no longer grown by nurserymen, but can be obtained at any butcher's, large quantities having recently arrived from Greece.