Dusty Miller has a crisp new look, and you can get it no matter what type of climate you garden in! Silverado is a neat, compact variety known for its uniform size and terrific resistance to bad weather from rain and wind to heat and dry soil. Make it part of your garden this season!
These plants reach just 10 to 12 inches high and wide, without stretching, flopping, or becoming rangy as the season progresses. They even tolerate a bit of frost, and keep their tidy, well-branched habit beautifully right through the dog days of August. The foliage is wonderfully lacy and fine, with a silvery gray sheen that looks great next to any other color leaves from green to purple!
Ideal for containers and edging because its size is so predictable, Silverado also makes a nice mass planting as well as an accent in the foundation. It likes full sun in cooler climates, a bit of shade in warmer areas, and if you live south of zone 7 or so, chances are it will remain evergreen right through winter. (Technically the plant is a perennial sun-shrub, though it's grown everywhere as an annual.)
You may notice tiny yellow flowers on this plant intermittently in spring and summer. Not particularly ornamental, the blooms can be snipped off or simply ignored. The beauty of Silverado is its magnificent foliage. If you enjoy arranging cut-flowers in the vase, be sure to grow a few Silverado plants in the cutting garden to use as filler for your bouquets. The silver color and finely-cut texture really pop in the vase!
All this Dusty Miller really needs to grow reliably and well is good soil drainage and at least half a day of full sun. Sprinkle it freely about the garden and on the patio for one-of-a-kind color you can enjoy at least 3 seasons of the year! Pkt has 25 seeds.
Senecios are grown for their ornamental foliage and make nice additions to borders, bedding and edging, and showy container displays
Where hardy, the daisy like, yellow or cream flowers appear in late summer of the second year from seed. Senecio viravira grows 8-24 inches and has 3 inch, silvery white foliage that is more deeply cut than the above. Daisy-like, white flowers appear in the late summer and have no ray petals.
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Dusty Miller has a crisp new look, and you can get it no matter what type of climate you garden in! Silverado is a neat, compact variety known for its uniform size and terrific resistance to bad weather from rain and wind to heat and dry soil. Make it part of your garden this season!
These plants reach just 10 to 12 inches high and wide, without stretching, flopping, or becoming rangy as the season progresses. They even tolerate a bit of frost, and keep their tidy, well-branched habit beautifully right through the dog days of August. The foliage is wonderfully lacy and fine, with a silvery gray sheen that looks great next to any other color leaves from green to purple!
Ideal for containers and edging because its size is so predictable, Silverado also makes a nice mass planting as well as an accent in the foundation. It likes full sun in cooler climates, a bit of shade in warmer areas, and if you live south of zone 7 or so, chances are it will remain evergreen right through winter. (Technically the plant is a perennial sun-shrub, though it's grown everywhere as an annual.)
You may notice tiny yellow flowers on this plant intermittently in spring and summer. Not particularly ornamental, the blooms can be snipped off or simply ignored. The beauty of Silverado is its magnificent foliage. If you enjoy arranging cut-flowers in the vase, be sure to grow a few Silverado plants in the cutting garden to use as filler for your bouquets. The silver color and finely-cut texture really pop in the vase!
All this Dusty Miller really needs to grow reliably and well is good soil drainage and at least half a day of full sun. Sprinkle it freely about the garden and on the patio for one-of-a-kind color you can enjoy at least 3 seasons of the year! Pkt has 25 seeds.
Senecios are grown for their ornamental foliage and make nice additions to borders, bedding and edging, and showy container displays
Where hardy, the daisy like, yellow or cream flowers appear in late summer of the second year from seed. Senecio viravira grows 8-24 inches and has 3 inch, silvery white foliage that is more deeply cut than the above. Daisy-like, white flowers appear in the late summer and have no ray petals.
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.