Picture a garden where all the flowers are solid in color. I’m not sure I’ve seen one. Perhaps we don’t think about it much, but in reality many—or maybe even most—of the blooms in our gardens show some degree of variegation. Stripes, shadows and freckles occur naturally to draw pollinators toward their target, and plant breeders have worked these details into fanciful creations to catch the gardener’s eye.
There are the obvious ones, like multicolored bearded irises and heavily
