Silver and Green Gardens

Add grey and silver to your green garden to enliven it.

Most grey and silver foliage plants come from hot, dry places- so make sure they have well drained soil and full sun. Poor, light soil is no problem. If the plants are in shade they will not look their silvery best.

These succulents are nearly always out of the sun, so have reverted to almost green.

A lot of silver and grey plants have weak looking yellow flowers which need to be clipped off in order to maintain the neat shape of the specimen.

Contrast the grey with a strong green or a blue/mauve.

Pyrus salcifolia is a small tree that contrasts well with the green backdrop in this garden.

A formal garden works in all seasons with a mixture of grey and silver. Olive trees and Santolina, here, make sure this formality is not dull. The clipped form brings the shape, essential in any good design.

Helichrysum or curry plant is a silver plant that works well in the herb garden next to sage, another of the plants liking it hot and dry.

Lavender, of course joins many other common plants that can be used for silvery contrast.

If you have a sunny spot for potted plants, Dusty Miller, a cineraria, looks great with purple petunias or similar, it's lovely toothed foliage great all year.

Should you have no flowers at all this mixture of grey/silver and green will look brilliant.

The words and promises of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over.

Psalm 12 verse 6 New Living.

 

Silver jewellery on a green plate.