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Family: Asteraceae
Native to: southeast Australia
Dimensions: to 5' tall and wide
Cold resistance: hardy to 5 - 10°:f
Drought resistance: adequate west of the Cascades
Key Features: year-round silver color, white flowers, fluffy seed heads, tolerates any soil, easy care
Uses: shrub borders, hell strips/urban plantings, tolerates coastal exposure and wind, deer resistant, great in containers, pretty much indestructibe once established.
Description:
Reaching a height and spread of 4 - 6' over time, this textural evergreen shrub has a beautiful silvery appearance resulting from the white stems and leaf undersides. The top surfaces of the leaves are green, but they are so tiny that one hardly notices. Although we think of this mostly as a foliage plant, its attractive white flowers in late spring are also cool; these are followed by fluffy light brown seed heads. Vaguely resembling a desert shrub from the interior West, it incorporates equally well with either a desert-themed garden or with other Southern Hemisphere plants, and is overall very easy care, performing great in containers as well. We thank the late Tory Galloway for sharing this with us from her garden full of water-wise plants in Indianola. Hardy to at least 10°F.
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