Silver leaves help set off more colorful flowers and help brighten up your landscape. By Sheryl Geerts Updated on May 5, 2023 Reviewed by Sylvia Duax Photo: Lynn Karlin Plants with silvery foliage are among the most valuable for your landscape, because they look good with anything. Russian sage ( Perovskia) is a perennial flower. In the case of Russian sage, it's the stems, even more so than the foliage, that inject silver color into your landscape design. The profusion of delicate flowers, its gray-green leaves, and its silver stems all work to give Russian sage an airy look.
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16 SilverFoliage Plants to Brighten Your Landscape
Silver-leaf plants like artemisia are some of the most valuable in the garden design world because they're true neutrals. They look good paired with anything, so you can incorporate silvery plants anywhere in your landscape or container gardens. A silver-leaved plant can be an excellent contrast to green plants while breaking up the monotony of single-colored gardens. They can also tone down bright colors. Silver plants blend nicely with shades of blue, lilac, and pink. They also contrast well with purple, red, and orange. A List of Silver Plant Names Silver leaf is a flowering evergreen shrub with arching branches and woolly, silvery gray leaves. In summer it bears solitary, bell-shaped rose-purple flowers an inch across. Noteworthy Characteristics Useful as hedging and in seaside plantings. Care Grow in poor, sandy soil and full sun. Native to much of Asia and North America, this perennial with narrow silvery leaves is better known for its clusters of tiny white flowers that are easily dried (whence the name "everlasting"), but the flowers only make the whole plant seem that much silverier.
15 Beautiful Silver Leaf Plants to Brighten Up Your Garden
Silver leaves add color and texture, ease the transition from one flower color to another, and offer visual interest when nothing is in bloom. Soft shades of silver and gray lend a look of coolness to the garden on a hot day and enhance the green foliage of plants nearby. Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development. Silver and grey foliage is very adaptable and also has a definite character of its own. Choose these annuals and perennials with AGMs. 10 plants with scented foliage Here are 10 versatile, silvery-leaved plants to consider. Rose campion Lychnis 'Gardeners' World' Lychnis coronaria, or rose campion, is a short-lived perennial, with clumps of silver felty leaves and long-lasting magenta flowers, popular with pollinators, in late summer. You may be familiar with silver plants for sun, and there are many — indeed, silver foliage is often a sign of sun tolerance — but in recent years, some amazing silver plants have emerged to brighten the shadiest corner of your garden too. Here are a few of each. Ajania ( Ajania pacifica, zones 5 to 9) always stops me in my tracks.
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The first silver plant on our list is the 'silver king' artemisia. This popular plant can grow up to three feet high and looks great paired with just about anything. Artemisia is a perennial which flourishes best in full sunlight, while it's also a rapid spreader - so maybe not the best if you're concerned with harboring aggressive plants. 2. Verbascum Bombyciferum or Mullein . It grows well in full sun and poor, well-drained soil. Verbascum (Silver mullein) has furry silver leaves which spread out to about 3-4 ft (0.9-1.2 m) and grow to a height of about 4-6 ft (1.2-1.8 m) after 1-2 years.
5 Silver-Leafed Plants to Add to Your Garden Euphorbia or Mediterranean Spurge Lychnis or Rose Campion Snow-in-Summer or Cerastium Stachys (Lamb's Ears) Lavender I've kept the list short to hold your attention, but you might like my companion article if you want to read more about silver-leafed plants that add contrast to your garden. With dozens of varieties, silver leaf eucalyptus is a tropical plant with blue, green silvery leaves and pretty white flowers that will lend an aromatic fragrance to your garden. Eucalyptus is an excellent shade tree too. Also referred to as the Argyle apple, this fast-growing tree is drought and heat tolerant and can grow up to 40 feet tall.
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16 SilverFoliage Plants to Brighten Your Landscape
Classy Silver Leaf Houseplants 1. Silver Cloud Botanical Name: Pilea pubescens 'Silver Cloud' Like the name, the pretty silver leaves with contrasting red shade on the back make this variety quite exquisite. Here are some amazing Pilea varieties you can grow 2. Silver Sword Philodendron Botanical Name: Philodendron hastatum 1. Silver Sage "Salvia" Salvia argentea is a short-living perennial, it forms an unusual rosette of furry leaves. In the second year, it produces a spike of white flowers in summer and then wilts. The plant is not suitable for tropics and requires a climate with moderate summer. 2. Dusty Miller
