Dusty Miller Silver Lace
Dusty Miller
Silver Lace:
Silver Lace Dusty Miller is an herbaceous annual with an upright spreading habit of growth. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect. Beautiful ferny silver foliage is valued for its texture and contrast in the garden; does best in poor, dry soils and is an ideal groundcover for adverse conditions where little else will grow. Silver Lace Dusty Miller’s foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front.
Height: 12”/Spread: 12-15”
Foliage Accent
Full Sun to Part Shade
Size Available: 1204
Description
Dusty Miller:
Dusty miller is the common name of several plants with grey or silver leaves. The one commonly used as an annual bedding plant is actually a perennial shrub native to the Mediterranean. It is typically grown for its ornamental foliage. The leaves of this herbaceous species are covered with fine matted hairs, giving them a felted or woolly, silver or white appearance. When wet the underlying green leaf becomes more visible, and the white color is not as intense when grown in the shade. Coloration can also vary with the cultivar. The 2-6″ long leaves are arranged alternately or spirally along the stiff, hairy stems. The simple leaves are lance shaped and variously indented or cut with numerous lobes, many times appearing pinnately compound. Cultivars vary tremendously in the amount of dissection from just slightly sinute to an almost lace-like appearance, offering a wide range of medium to fine textures. Being of Mediterranean origin, dusty miller is heat and drought tolerant and does best in full sun. It will it become leggy when grown in shade. Although it performs best in moist, well-drained, moderately rich soils, it is tolerant of poor soils. It will last past the first frost, but the leaves die back when temperatures are consistently below freezing.
