Plants with silver foliage add luster to the full sun or shade perennial border and look great when paired with red, pink, gold, purple or blue flowers.
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Schizachyrium scoparium 'Twilight Zone' PP 27,432
Item #: 13509
Zones: 3a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sedum bithynicum
Item #: 2798
Zones: 5a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Turkey
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outStanleya pinnata
Item #: 18052
Zones: 4a to 9a
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Teucrium marum
Item #: 8687
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Italy, Sardinia, Spain, Yugoslavia (former)
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outThuja occidentalis 'Concessarini'
Item #: 13269
Zones: 3a to 8b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Thymus neiceffii
Item #: 18324
Zones: 5a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 2" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Balkans
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outTrillium decumbens 'Georgia Walker'
Item #: 18295
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 2" tall
Culture: Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $45.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Sold outTrillium delicatum
Item #: 17390
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $50.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Trillium foetidissimum 'Baton Rouge'
Item #: 7103
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outTrillium foetidissimum 'Wakefield'
Item #: 10453
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outTrillium 'Julia'
Item #: 12970
Zones: 5a to 9b, guessing
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $50.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outTrillium lancifolium 'Black Panther'
Item #: 16605
Zones: 6a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outTrillium lancifolium 'Lancelot'
Item #: 6627
Zones: 6a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Trillium x macaroni 'Van Buren Mosaic'
Item #: 12917
Zones: 5a to 8b, possibly warmer
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $65.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Yucca 'Dragon Slayer' PP 36,889
Item #: 18530
Zones: 5b to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $27.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outYucca rostrata 'Sapphire Skies'
Item #: 6697
Zones: 5b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico, United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Yucca 'Silver Anniversary' PP 31,437
Item #: 12621
Zones: 5b to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $27.00Regular priceUnit price per
More Information About Silver/Grey Foliage Plants
How do you get a sterling garden? Use plants with silver foliage. Plants with silver foliage add luster to the full sun or shade perennial border and look great when paired with red, pink, gold, purple or blue flowers. Silver leaved plants are also perfect for night gardens because they reflect moonlight while repelling those pesky werewolves. Plant Delights Nursery has a huge on-line catalog of perennials and to help make your shopping experience easier, we have created this mini-catalog of plants with silver foliage.
Some of the best perennials with silver foliage available here at Plant Delights Nursery have both beautiful argent leaves and lovely complementary flowers. They include certain cultivars of brunnera, cyclamen, dianthus, perovskia, pulmonaria, nepeta, arundo, dicliptera, oxalis, achillea, salvia, eucalyptus, lavandula, othonna and certain cultivars of buddleia. All of these silver leaved plants deserve a gold medal.
Other valuable plants with silver foliage include athyrium, teucrium, eryngium, artemisia, echeveria, graptopetalum, agave, begonia, carex, chasmanthium, alpinia and zingiber. These plants do not have the floral capacity of the previous group but make excellent companions for other perennials that do.
How does a plant make silver foliage? The argent color of silver plants is not a pigment, but rather some type of mechanism that scatters and reflects light. Some plants with silver foliage have a thick coat of foliar wax. Others are covered with fine hairs. A few silver perennials get their luster from blisters that separate the outer and inner cell layers of the leaf. No matter how they get silver plated, plants with silver foliage look great. When you are ready to buy plants with silver foliage for your garden, check out our online list of plants with silver foliage for sale.