(From Gardener's Latin, a Lexicon by Bill Neal, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992).

Want to add “The Sound of Music” to your garden? Agastache ruprestris, hyssop, light gray green leaves, orange flowering mid-summer to fall to 36”T, water every other week.
Grey foliage, whether silvery-white, deep charcoal or somewhere in between, makes a dramatic impact in the garden. Here are a few prefixes and suffixes or genus/species names to watch for that signify gray, silver, white or hairy. Not only does their pale or shimmery foliage all but glow at dusk and light up gloomy shade and dark corners – including indoors - but when used on their own, gray and silver plants can lead the eye while mellowing the landscape, taming intense colors, or serving as buffers between design changes. In our climate these combinations can be achieved by using Salvia “Raspberry Delight' with gray creeping germander's mauve flowers matching the green foliage of the salvia with the gray-green of the germanders. The climate and conditions for the Texas High Plains area are: Plant List for the Texas Panhandle - Flowers, Appropriate Grasses for the Texas Panhandle, Gardening With Tulips in the Texas Panhandle, Part 1, Species Tulips, Gardening With Tulips in the Texas Panhandle, Part 2, Garden Hybrids. Planting Coral Bells: How to Grow and Care for These Colorful Perennials, Everything You Need to Host an Outdoor Movie Party, Our Favorite Pots and Planters for Every Budget, 8 Places to Shop for Fall Flowers and Foliage, These Budget-Friendly Decor Items Will Instantly Improve Your Porch's Fall Curb Appeal, Retreat Into Your Backyard With These Outdoor Living Must-Haves, Where to Shop the Best Labor Day Outdoor Furniture Sales, 10 Outdoor Rocking Chairs You'll Love to Spend Hours In, Everything You Need to Create a Cozy Backyard This Fall, These Are Martha Stewart's Top Tips for Container Gardening, Beginner's Guide to Birding: 10 Things That Will Bring Birds Into Your Yard, 16 Affordable Finds to Refresh Your Outdoor Space in Just One Weekend, 10 Best Outdoor Privacy Screens for Every Style + Budget, The 10 Best Kits + Tools to Get Kids Hooked on Gardening, 12 Brilliant Products That Will Ensure Your Patio & Yard Look Great All Summer Long, Wayfair Launched Its Fourth of July Sale Early and the Deals Include Major Luxury Brands, A Self-Propelled Mower That Transforms Your Backyard in Minutes & 11 Other Outdoor Essentials at Walmart, Backyard Playsets and Games Your Kids Will Love, Patio, Perfected: 11 Amazing Amazon Finds for a Shady Outdoor Oasis, 20 Stylish Outdoor Rugs on Sale Right Now, 10 Best Porch Swings for Every Style and Budget, Patio Updates Under $200 That Only Look Expensive, The Best Patio Furniture Sales to Shop for Summer, The Best Patio Umbrellas for Your Backyard, The Best Inflatable Pools to Buy Right Now, Copy the Curb Appeal: Mystic, Connecticut, Poinsettia Care Through Winter (and Beyond), Dig It: Your Vegetable Gardening Questions, Answered, How to Care for Monstera, the Swiss Cheese Plant, Cozy Fire Pit Tips and Design Tricks for Fall and Winter, This Hydroponic Garden System Solves Your Small-Space Problems With Great Design, 10 Best Indoor Plants for Every Room of Your Home, Growing Japanese Maples: A Guide to Planting and Care, 35 Hauntingly Beautiful Ideas for Your Gothic Garden, 40 Gorgeous Fall Container Garden & Planter Ideas, 10 Greenhouses You Can Buy Online That Will Keep Your Garden Thriving Through Winter, 25 Beautiful Decks and Patios With Hot Tubs, Plants That Kill: Tour the Alnwick Poison Garden, Home Canning for Beginners: Tools and Tips for Success, Copy the Curb Appeal: Sacramento, California, Autumn-Approved Decorating Ideas for Front Porches, Why You Should (and Shouldn't) Apply Fall Mulch, Houseplants That Make Your Home Feel Like a Tropical Paradise, How to Build a Pollinator House for Your Garden. Native to the upper Chihuahuan deserts. The drought-tolerant plants do best in full sun. Often includes in children’s gardens because of their velvety-soft foliage, some Stachys byzantina plants also boast spectacular blossoms. The Pulmonaria family of spring-blooming perennials offers shade-loving plants with mottled leaves. Veronica incana, silver speedwell, silver gray leaves with blue flowers on spikes summer long. Blue-green rosettes with mottled leaves, small pink flowers the second year. Spreading shrub 3-3 ½ 'T x 3'4'W at maturity. Coral Bells, or heucheras, come in a variety of foliage colors and patterns, including greenish-grey or silver-grey, and small, bell-like flowers rising on a long stem above the broad leaves. Agave americana is a classic gray foliage plant for mild-winter areas. Focus on your gardening statement and plan. My first remembrances of gray in the garden was not the many chilly, overcast days gardeners in more northern latitudes experience (Wisconsin), but the gray leafed annual Senecio cineraria and the perennial, Artemisia stelleriana both commonly known as Dusty Miller, or one of its cousins, Silver Brocade or Silver Cascade.

And like many gray foliaged plants, this tillandsia has tiny hairs covering the leaf surface, reflecting back a lightish color. Perovskia atriplicifolia, Russian sage, blue gray leaves, blue summer flowering shrub, low water-use. Santolina chamaecyparissus, gray santolina with small yellow flowers. They also help bring out the best in brighter colors, which shine a bit more with the contrast, and continue to create interest when nearby flowers are finished or not yet in bloom. For many gardeners whose first experience was garnered in locals outside the Southwest, gray foliage is more associated with the allure and romance of the Mediterranean coastal areas. Privacy Policy.
Most bloom in late spring, although a few coral bell varieties give repeat performance throughout the growing season. Heterotheca canescens, Gray golden aster, silver foliage, yellow native wild flower, mid summer to fall blooming. Thymus pseudolanguginosus, woolly thyme, small gray leaves, a low to the ground ground cover. Gray, interspersed with green foliage plants, increases the interest of a bed or border, although all silver or gray gardens can be dull, gloomy and unappealing.

Salvia chamaedroides, New Mexican sage, Beautiful shrub with gray-green leaves with blue summer flowering, 2' x 2'. Lamb’s ears make appropriate rock garden plants or front-of-the-border plants.

As I walked in at the bottom level, right in front of me lived a gray tillandsia, an epiphyte. Silver white leaves with pale yellow flowers. Following nature's cue is often a safe bet. 3-6' tall. Bukiniczia cabulica, formerly Aeoniopsis cabulica, small rock garden plant biennial that reseeds. Leaves look tough like lambs ear but tear easily and are easily damaged by hail. Perennial subshrub native to the Mediterranean region with yellow daisy like flowers, whitish silver leaved plant grown as an annual. But there are so many more (one summer I almost went blind photographing dozens of different kinds in various flower shows and botanic gardens). AHS Heat Zone 8 (90 – 120 days above 85°). They can range from nearly pure white to gray, gray-green, and with a bluish cast, to a shiny silver hue, all with darker and lighter tones or patches of variegation. SW native. Perhaps the tiny hairs that cover many of the leaves of these tough and rugged specimens deflect wind and sand, lessening evaporation, reduce heat and solar radiation and maybe even help warm the surface of the leaves when temperatures plummet. Try either common Edelwiess or the mignon hybrid, which is a bit hardier and even lower-growing. It is only in the past decade or two that our native arid flora has made its way into the trade and available for gardeners worldwide.

Additional choices range from the succulent plant hens and chickens to any of the creeping or common thymes. No need for a full-fledged white garden - simply add some here and there for punching up colors. Cold hardy to -30. 'Silver Brocade' is a named variety often planted. They grow between 18 and 36 inches tall, depending on the variety. The white flowers resemble daisies. Low water and low maintenance will keep these lighter colored plants not just surviving, but thriving. You would think I should have celebrated its ability to survive. Atriplex confertifolia, Shadscale, silver gray semi-evergreen leaves. Only in the more extreme environments, mainly in highly salty or sodic soil communities, does gray appear to overwhelm, at least with our green-trained vision. Senecio cineraria, (now Jacobaea maritima) Dusty Miller or silver ragwort. How to Prep Your Plants Before You Bring Them Inside for Winter, 13 Ways to Get Your Lawn Ready for Cool Weather.

Silvery tinged plants tend to stand out more even in shade than duller gray foliage. Also consider options like wooly rock jasmine, rock rose, Greek horehound, lamium, grey broom, snow-in-summer and hybrid mulleins. Many have foliage that is waxy and biologically adapted to tolerate and reflect intense sun, and those with furry or hairy foliage catch and disperse rainfall. May be the only Leucophyllum reliably cold hardy for the Texas Panhandle. Achillea x 'Moonshine', yarrow, silver-gray foliage with lemon yellow flowering late spring to summer, drought tolerant 18'W x 24”T. Forms a low, spreading mat for hot and dry areas. Join the party! Makes a good screen. Perennial native to Japan and Kamchatka has naturalized along the Atlantic coast. Gray and silver leaved plants do contain chlorophyll as do nearly all plants. Artemesia ludoviciana, white sagebrush, silver foliage, native to most of the US, any soil/condition nearly.

2 x 2', suited to the garden but grows well under extreme conditions. They can range from nearly pure white to gray, gray-green, and with a bluish cast, to a shiny silver hue, all with darker and lighter tones or patches of variegation. Try pearly everlasting or Himalayan … incana, Silver edged Missouri evening primrose, native summer with silver-blue leaves, long yellow, chalice shaped blooms. Silvery variegated "aluminum plant" shines with reflective stripes. Climate zones favorable to wide selection of plants. What Plants Go Well With Elephant Ear Plants?→. Alyssum wulfenianum, Wulfen's Madwort, low growing gray leaved with yellow spring flowers to 6” tall. Try fuzzy wuzzy for spikes of hot pink flowers in early summer, and enjoy the low-growing, soft-grey “fuzzy” leaves for the rest of the season. Many associate gray foliage with both high and low desert ecosystems. They come in all sizes from thin and tiny (Cerastium tomentosum, snow in summer), to large, flimsy (Salvia argentea, silver sage), tough and fleshy (Stachys byzantina, lambs ear) and thick succulent (Agave parryii, Parry's agave and Echinocereus reichenbachii albispinus, white spined lace cactus), both smooth and prickly. Finely laced blue gray leaves. All rights reserved. Eschscholzia californica, California poppy, annual; reseeding annual.

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