Vines cling to their companions

vine are close companions — intertwine their way up through Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , shrubs , and smaller plants . Lisa D. Cady created this colorful , contrasting combination for a container in the Nancy Bryan Luce Garden at theNew York Botanical Garden . The burnished yellow - and - green - variegate foliation of potato vine ( Solanum jasminoides‘Variegata ’ ) mingles among the inscrutable purple flowers and dark grteen parting of ‘ African dingy ’ basil ( Ocimum basilicum‘African Blue ’ ) .

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