FOLIAGE

Articles In This Section:

· ROSES FOR INDOOR DECORATION

· DESIGN

· CONTAINERS

· CUTTING BLOOMS

· FOLIAGE

· WIRING

· CUT-FLOWER TRADE IN ROSES

With few exceptions, roses are at their best with their own leaves, but use of added foliage can be made an interesting study. Old Hugo Roller or General Gallieni, two valuable late autumn roses, are very effective when stripped of all their leaves and arranged with added foliage tinted by autumn, such as Virginia creeper, Rhus succedanea, the cherry, or the liquidamber. The oft-despised red rose that "blues" readily can be similarly arranged. The yellow and orange shades of the added leaves accentuate the blueness, giving a new effect. Some people may at first find it hard to reconcile themselves to admiring blued roses, but their objections will seldom be long-lived.