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  • Arctotis
  • Artemisia
    • absinthium ‘Lambrook Silver’   CAG01478
      Height30cmWidth45cmFlowering SeasonSummerWaterLLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A first class perennial from the garden of Marjorie Fish, forming a clump of lacy, gently arching, silver leaves. A valuable component of any designers palette of high impact plants, providing sufficient interest and contrast without visual competition. Panicles of pale yellow, button-like flowers are borne in summer, after which a quick cut to ground can restore order, if desired, or else wait until winter when it is semi-deciduous.

      Lower growing and more refined than the species which is found throughout Europe, western Asia and northern Africa.
      More graceful and less spreading than A. ‘Powis Castle’ but almost as indestructible and seems to be more clay tolerant. Easily grown in any well drained, sunny, lean soil. Likely to be short lived in areas with high summer humidity, a lifer everywhere else.

      Also the defining constituent of Absinthe.

    • alba ‘Canescens’   CAG00991
      Height20cmWidth50cmFlowering SeasonSummerWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A grouncovering shrub of the utmost hardiness, forming a fine, silver, coral-like cushion, purple tinted under drought stress or in autumn before shedding its leaves over winter. Relatively slow growth yields years of undemanding beauty besides paths or scattered through boulders and is a perfect cover for summer dormant bulbs or other low plants of fine form. Tapering spires of pale yellow, button-like flowers lend an elegant effect but are of little import and, here at least, are seldom seen.

      Easily grown in any soil, or rock crevice, though not so happy in clay. Summer water unnecessary but tolerated, though not likely to last long in regions with high summer humidity. At it's best where lesser plants scorch and fry.

    • arborescens   CAG00857
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

    • frigida   CAG02509

      (Fringed sage, Prairie sagewort)
      Height30cmWidth20cmFlowering SeasonSummerWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A mat of tiny, fimbriated, silky soft, silver rosettes elongating into slender wands, bearing irrelevant, pale yellow, button-like flowers. Shrub-like and feathery in bloom, cutesy and pettable when not. Gorgeous with other dry land plants, Agave, species Penstemon and the choicest small bulbs would all make stunning and appropriate companions.

      From coarser soils in low rainfall areas from Canada to Mexico and tolerant to extremes of temperature and drought, short lived in well watered gardens and areas with high summer humidity, excellent drainage essential.

      Winter dormant to some degree. depending on cold, resting as tight buds.

    • ludoviciana ‘Silver Queen’   CAG01724

      (Prairie sage, White sagebrush)
      Height1.5mWidth60cmFlowering SeasonSu - AuWaterLLightSun - L. Sh.
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A staple of gardens the world over though indigenous through most of North America. Suckering clumps of slender, upright, silver stems and narrow, incised leaves for pairing with other designer and mediterraneanesque plants. Cut down regularly to maintain verticality and boldest foliage or if left unchecked it will eventually form a dense mound of wiry, branching stems bearing irrelevant, small, pale yellow, button-like flowers, quite an effective silver shrub in wilder parts of the garden or fence line.

      Very vigorous and perfectly drought tolerant on well drained soils, struggling in heavy clay though more successful in lower rainfall regions. Impervious to any heat and cold experienced in this country but, as with most of the genus, unlikely to tolerate the summer humidity of more tropical zones. Dead easy and indestructible.

      Finer and more divided foliage than A. ‘Valerie Finnis’ and perhaps better for the vertical.

    • ‘Powis Castle’   CAG00107
      Height45cmWidth1.5mFlowering SeasonWaterL - MLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A low spreading shrub. The best of the silver plants, finely dissected silver foliage forms dense weed suppressing mounds. Non flowering. Fantastic as an edging for garden beds, drives or paths in full sun. Try planting with Geranium incanum for a little added colour.

    • stelleriana   CAG00108

      (Oldwaman, Dusty miller, Beach wormwood)
      Height10cmWidth40cmFlowering SeasonSummerWaterLLightSun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A gorgeous perennial groundcover, forming a carpet of gently lobed, white, felty leaves. Vertical stems of pale yellow, button flowers add contrast in summer but may be considered no more than a distraction.

      Native to coastal dunes of Kamchatka and Japan and demanding of impeccable drainage but delighted with exposure, high wind, salt spray and lean soil. Winter deciduous and immune to cold.

      Distinctly different, broader leaves, perhaps indicative of its greater tolerance to summer humidity than most of the silver Wormwoods, excellent on the eastern seaboard, this comes at the cost of needing some summer water in mediterranean and arid regions.

  • Astelia
    • chathamica   CAG00112
      Height80cmWidth1mFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterH - MLightLight Shade
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      From the perpetually cool Chatham Islands this plant could be expected to be as heat tolerant as an ice block but given constantly moist soil and and a sheltered but not too shady site it can make an impressive clump of keeled, silver, sword-like leaves. Alternatively you can admire it's rigid metallic form in a pot, preferably wildly glazed for a space age look.

      Inconsequential flowers borne amongst the foliage are reputably followed by bright red fruit, though I've yet to see them.

      Slow growing so best left undisturbed until your thirst for more demands division.

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