(Licorice Plant, Limelight Licorice Plant)

The popular licorice plant ‘Limelight’ won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit in 1992 because it's a wonderfully pretty and reliable. This chartreuse-leaved selection is great for contrast and color plays with other brightly colored bedding plants for sun.

Licorice plant originates from southern Africa. There it survives as a tough compact shrub. The small, soft, iridescent chartreuse leaves of 'Limelight' are oval and fragrant when crushed. Fine silver hairs cover their...

(Licorice Plant)

The dwarf ‘Minus’ is a super small selection of the silver-leaved licorice plant. It is heat and drought tolerant and its tiny silver leaves blend well with pastel or jewel-toned flowers.

Licorice plant originates from southern Africa. There it survives as a tough compact shrub. The small, soft silver leaves of ‘Minus’ are rounded and fragrant when crushed. Fine silver hairs cover their surface giving them a woolly texture. The trailing stems are branched and form very compact mounded plants....

(Licorice Plant)

The low-growing ‘Petite Licorice’ is a more compact selection of the silver-leaved licorice plant. It is heat and drought tolerant and its silver leaves blend well with pastel or jewel-toned flowers.

Licorice plant originates from southern Africa. There it survives as a tough compact shrub. The small silver leaves of ‘Petite Licorice’ are oval and fragrant when crushed. Fine silver hairs cover their surface giving them a woolly texture. The trailing stems are branched and form very compact...

(Licorice Plant, White Licorice Plant)

This is a super silver-hued foliage plant used for edging, bedding and containers. Licorice plant provides a cool backdrop for pastels and contrasts well with jewel toned blooms and foliage. It is also drought tolerant and easy to grow.

This tender perennial is native to southern Africa where it survives as a tough, compact shrub. Its small, soft, silvery leaves are fragrant when crushed and either oval or heart-shaped. Fine silver hairs cover their surface giving them a woolly texture. The...

(Licorice Plant)

The crisp, silvery gray foliage of the licorice plant is fine and luxuriant. This tender perennial originates from the drier parts of Central Asia. Where hardy, it survives as a low, shrubby evergreen, but it is most commonly grown as bedding filler for containers and sunny flower gardens because its bright, neutral foliage compliments many colorful annuals. Once established, it is quite tough and drought tolerant.

Licorice plant is tidy, clump-forming and covered with slender, lance-shaped...

(Icicles Licorice Plant, Licorice Plant)

The popular licorice plant 'Icicles' has extra narrow, linear foliage that is powdery silver. Helichrysum thianschanicum is a tender perennial that originates from the drier parts of Central Asia. Where hardy, it survives as a low, shrubby evergreen, but it is most commonly grown as bedding filler for containers and sunny flower gardens because its bright, neutral foliage compliments many colorful annuals. Once established, it is quite tough and drought tolerant.

Licorice plant is tidy,...

(Christmas Heliconia)

All heliconia flowers have hot, tropical appeal and Christmas heliconia is no exception. Its small, white flowers are nestled among spectacular upright spikes of red or orange-yellow bracts. This Brazilian native blooms from late fall to midwinter, hence the Christmas heliconia, and makes an exceptional cutflower.

This vigorous tropical plant forms clumps of vegetation that spread via creeping rhizomes, or underground rooting stems. The foliage resembles short, narrow, oblong banana leaves....

(Firebird, Macaw Flower)

This heliconia also known as red palulu, firebird and macaw flower is a tropical perennial grown for spectacular flowers and tropical foliage. It is native to South America particularly Brazil and the Guianas. This large plant's banana-like leaves grow directly from thick, quickly spreading rhizomes or underground, lateral stems. The medium green leaves are held on long petioles (leaf stalks) and are easily shredded by the wind. Large, waxy flowers are produced on upright stalks which appear between...

(Parakeet Flower)

Parakeet flower is an everblooming, tropical plant that produces an abundance of bright flowers above clumps of lush, evergreen leaves. It is native to the moist areas of the Lesser Antilles to northern South America. With good care, it looks great all year around.

This vigorous ornamental spreads by rhizomes and has long, banana-like leaves that are dark green and tatter easily in strong winds. The flowers are borne atop long, smooth, green flower stalks that are held above the leaves. They...

(Parakeet Flower)

Parakeet flower is an everblooming, tropical plant that produces an abundance of bright flowers above clumps of lush, evergreen leaves. It is native to the moist areas of the Lesser Antilles to northern South America. With good care, it looks great all year around.

This vigorous ornamental spreads by rhizomes and has long, banana-like leaves that are dark green and tatter easily in strong winds. The flowers are borne atop long, smooth, green flower stalks that are held above the leaves. They...