Perennials with Silver or Blue-grey Foliage

PERENNIALS WITH SILVER or blue-grey foliage (often the entire plant is similarly colored) are particularly valuable in the garden for separating strong-colored plants, such as those with red, purple, or even green leaves. They can also provide a lovely foil for pastel-colored flowers, especially those in pink, lavender-purple, pale blue, and yellow. While there is a vast choice of perennials for use in grey or silver borders, they can also make a striking display as specimen plants or grouped together with other contrasting foliage perennials in containers. Most plants with silver leaves prefer a warm, sunny situation.

PEARLY EVERLASTING

A German selection of a reliable perennial. The clumps of grey Stems bear leaves that are white-woolly beneath, and dense white flower clusters in late summer.

ARTEMISIA

The erect clumps of slender, woolly stems bear willow-like, sharp-toothed, aromatic, white-woolly leaves, and dense white flower clusters in summer and autumn.

SNOW-IN-SUMMER

One of the best grey ground-cover plants for walls and sunny banks. White flowers pepper the carpet of evergreen, downy leaves from late spring into summer.

SEA KALE

This distinctive, bold, mound-forming plant has large, deep-lobed, twisted, blue- green, bloomy leaves, and branched heads of small white flowers in early summer.

CARDOON

The deeply divided, spiny, silvery grey leaves of this statuesque plant form big, bold clumps. During summer, stout blue flowerheads open on branched stems.

DICENTRA

A charming plant, with mounds of ferny, silvery blue leaves, topped in late spring and early summer by nodding clusters of white flowers. Forms patches in time.

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