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Gray-leaved Plants Can:
FOLIAGE PLANTS are an important part of any planting, but particularly so container plantings, which tend to have short periods of interest created by seasonal plants. Foliage, however, provides a permanent background structure against which flowers can come and go.
Gray-leaved plants such as Helichrysum petiolare and Senecio bicolor, syn. cineraria bicolor, play a useful part in different color schemes. When reds and blues are combined with white, gray will "cool" the impact of the strong hues. Its neutral tones make the visual leap to pure white less dazzling. A subdued background of gray foliage will bring out the best in pastel pinks, mauves and misty blues, and will delicately harmonize container color schemes.Gray-leaved plants can be used to good effect in hanging baskets. Their neutral tones tend to cool down vibrant colors such as reds and blues, while they will generally show off to advantage pale shades of pink, blue and mauve. Plants such as Helichrysum petiolare are therefore useful for setting off different color schemes. Plants with yellow variegation and golden foliage, by contrast, harmonize with deep blue and violet colors and have affinities with both yellow flowers and mid-green leaves.
A tree is a large, woody, long-lived plant with a well-developed trunk. By definition, trees are included within one or the other of the two great subdivisions of the seed-bearing plants, the gymnosperms and the angiosperms. The gymnosperms comprise the familiar coniferous, needle-leaved trees, often called the evergreens, while the angiosperms include the broad-leaved, deciduous forms—the so-called hardwoods.
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