Silver foliage plants

Add a dose of drama to your landscape with silvery plants. They look good with everything and are easy to grow. Here are some of the best. By Justin Hancock

No plant is in flower all the time, which is why showy or distinctive foliage is essential—especially when deer don’t like it! Originally introduced to me as a bedding or container plant, this silver artemisia cultivar is really great in the perennial landscape too. Soft, silverygray foliage sprawls into a low, fuzzy mound, which works its way around other plants to fill sunny spaces.

Plants with silver foliage are attractive in their own right and their leaves work well in combos. Here are 26 silver-leaved plants you can try.

Groundcovers are great for covering large areas and is low maintenance. Check out our informative post on ground covers for shade & more!

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Plants with silver leaves can offer a unique aesthetic to your garden, providing softness that complements both greenery and vibrant flowers. Some popular varieties like the Blue Fescue Grass and Silverbush are well-suited for Australia’s climate. Not only do they add style, but they’re also hardy, making maintenance easy. Read the full article to uncover more intriguing plants that will enhance the beauty of your outdoor space and thrive in Australian conditions.

This low-growing, trailing plant thrives as a groundcover, in containers, or as a no-mow lawn alternative.

Find Silver Brocade Artemisia (Artemisia stelleriana 'Silver Brocade') in Fayetteville Springdale Rogers Bentonville AR Arkansas AR at Westwood Gardens (Wormwood, Sage, Mugwort)

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Dusty Miller (Senecio cineraria) The felted, silver-gray leaves of this foliage annual make pink and red roses sing. Plants reach 8 to 15 inches high, forming a silver cushion beneath hybrid tea or shrub roses. This plant tolerates light frosts and will continue to sound a note of color in cold-region gardens deep into fall.

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Artemisia is a great foliage plant for the garden. Carefree plants for landscapes and gardens. #artemisia #gardening #plants

Silver ragwort is a plant that bears extremely ornamental foliage. Caring for it, growing, planting and pruning or sowing it

Did you know that you can make a garden interesting - and even exciting - by using texture (versus flowers)? That's what I'm talking about in this week's post. Specifically, adding visual interest to your garden with plants in many different shades of gray. Silvery-gray plants can brighten up a shady corner or provide a lovely contrast to dark green foliage and flowering perennials. I'm sharing my favorite gray plants that can go in a wide variety of garden settings.

Fine, delicate foliage and an attractive, mounding habit are just a couple of reasons gardeners like growing the silver mound plant. Learn about growing and caring for silver mound plant in this article.

Could their be a more aptly named plant than ‘Silver Mound’? Artemisia schmidtiana has several common names like wormwood, mugwort, sagebrush, or just silver mound (which to me is the most descriptive.) This mounding perennial has soft silvery gray foliage that invites the casual observer reach down to touch it. It’s hard to walk by ... Read more

How to Grow the sub-shrub Artemisia. Many Artemisia Plant Genus Members, such as wormwood and Tarragon, can also be used for medicinal purposes.

Silver Emubush (Eremophila nivea) is one of our most popular plants! Grown in this image as a hedge, this medium shrub with soft aromatic foliage offers an abundance of violet flowers from late winter - spring. They are currently available at the nursery.#riverina #RWF

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Silver leaves set off more colorful flowers while adding shimmer to your garden beds and containers. Here are the best plants with silver foliage to grow.