Pictures of Plants With Silver Foliage

You've probably heard the saying, "All that glitters is not gold." It's true: some of it is silver! Just as shrubs like Gold Mops add much to a landscape with their golden foliage, so the smaller plants with silver foliage that I feature in this photo gallery will please the eye month after month. Just today, in fact, I was enjoying the silver leaves of my lavender plants, sticking up out of a blanket of snow.

The wonderful thing about plants grown primarily for their foliage is that they're "there for you" -- whether their leaves be silver or gold, green or variegated. Flowers are often ephemeral, but the foliage of these plants is something you can count on -- if not for the whole year, then at least for extended periods of time. Think "stable," think "rock solid," think "dependable friend."

View photos: Pictures of Silver-Leafed Plants