Blue flowers, white flowers, mauve and purplish flowers frequent gray matter. However paired, the gray leaves add a certain punch to the combination. Plants with gray and silver foliage pair exceptionally well with pastel and bold colors alike from their green leaved relations. Or planting Texas red yucca with Artemisia versicolor 'Sea Foam'; the dark green and long blooming red flowers of the red yucca matched with the artemisia's silver gray foliage and indistinct blooms. Oenothera macrocarpa ssp. The gardening website of the Texas High Plains Region. Wish I had room for a silver dollar eucalyptus. Additionally, their hairy or waxy coatings deter consumption by herbivores. For intense color atop silver-grey leaves, choose Lychnis coronaria. Regardless of the form and appearance, silver and gray leaved plants found in nature (as opposed to white, hybridized variations) can usually be relied upon to be more drought tolerant and sun adaptable than their green relations. Hardpan soil conditions may be present. But there are so many more (one summer I almost went blind photographing dozens of different kinds in various flower shows and botanic gardens). Santolina chamaecyparissus, gray santolina with small yellow flowers. Gray and silver foliage plants contain tiny hairs that reflect solar radiation, cooling the surface of the leaf by several degrees, offering protection from the wind, and slowing evaporation.
Western native shrub, gray blue evergreen leaves and prickly, grows to 8 feet. Anaphalis varieties feature silvery-grey, spear-like leaves that bloom in mid- or late-summer. Agastache ruprestris, hyssop, light gray green leaves, orange flowering mid-summer to fall to 36”T, water every other week. Agave parryi, Parry's agave. Gray green leaves with blue flowers in spring. Lavendula, Lavenders.
Angie Hanna, October 17, 2013. Grows to 3 ½ – 3 foot tall and wide. Alyssum wulfenianum, Wulfen's Madwort, low growing gray leaved with yellow spring flowers to 6” tall. SW native. How to Prep Your Plants Before You Bring Them Inside for Winter, 13 Ways to Get Your Lawn Ready for Cool Weather.
One of my favorite color combinations, that I've termed Zen Gray, are the colors black, gray and yellow. Join the party! Lavenders dislike humidity and over-watering, as well as excess fertilizer. All rights reserved. Brighten your garden with the lemon-yellow glow of Heuchera ‘Citronelle’. Many of the lavenders have greyish-white foliage that looks especially handsome as backdrops to their spiky purplish-blue blooms. And so it goes with using plants with white, gray, or silvery foliage in shrub beds, flower borders, and any fashion of container. Attractive for the rock garden. When reading through plant catalogs, sometimes the Botanic Latin name will give us a clue to the leaf color or hairy appearance (but sometimes the name refers to other plant parts). Salvia pachyphylla, Mohave Sage, xeric, 30” x 30”, unusual sage, Silver leaves with stunning purple sticky flowers. Artemesia ludoviciana, white sagebrush, silver foliage, native to most of the US, any soil/condition nearly. Chrysothamus nauseosus nauseosus, Dwarf Chamisa, Silver green leaves and stems, 2 ft. tall, pale yellow flowers in summer. Climate zones favorable to wide selection of plants. USDA Cold Hardiness Zones 6 (-10º to 0º) and/or Zone 7 (0º to 10º), Soil requirements: alkaline clay, caliche or sandy soil; saline tolerance, Planting Location: sun or shade, windy or protected, Silver, woolly and small leaves in combination, Large, thick fleshy and small succulent leaves. This fall, an excursion to Great Sand Dunes National Park, perfectly contrasted negative publicity associated with the harsh reality of growing conditions of gray matter with the stark natural beauty of their environment. Grey foliage, whether silvery-white, deep charcoal or somewhere in between, makes a dramatic impact in the garden. © 2020 Discovery or its subsidiaries and affiliates. 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. 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. Sphaeralcea angustifolia, globe mallow, light gray green foliage, light pink flowers throughout summer and fall, native to the Davis Mountains. Psilostrophe tagetina, paper flower, perennial herbaceous native, gray green foliage with yellow blooms spring and summer.
Having hailed from a rich green-leaved country myself, an appreciation for the finer merits of green color-challenged plants developed after my appreciation for their drought tolerant qualities.
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. Here are a few prefixes and suffixes or genus/species names to watch for that signify gray, silver, white or hairy. Orostachys iwarenge, Dunce caps. Spanish lavender (Lavendula stoechas) is usually not cold hardy in the Texas Panhandle.
Many associate gray foliage with both high and low desert ecosystems. Southwest native shrub with blue gray leaves, lavender white flowers in spring. (Also S. ambigua and Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia, gooseberryleaf globemallow, red, native to SW, xeric.). A rock garden plant. The flowers are inconspicuous, but in July the female shrubs are filled with red fruits. Grow English or French lavender (or hybrids suited to your area) in dry soil with full sun. After over a decade of growing gray and silver leaved plants, I have learned to love their light color, thin wispy appearance, rougher hairy (tomentose) or smooth glaucous (gray green) surface and their rugged individualism in their native setting while at the same time appreciating their versatility and compatibility with flowers of all other colors.
Subject to frequent winds, low moisture, sun seared days and chilly winters, gray and silver leaved plants are thrivers of some of the most challenging habitats. Silvery variegated "aluminum plant" shines with reflective stripes. Small low growing and mounding with blue gray succulent leaves, tiny magenta flowers to 6”. White spines are so dense as to make the cactus look white.
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