Re: Plant Id ??

I looked this one up on Sierra plant encyclopedia, and it might be it, but I'm not
sure--picture isn't great, and mine is a lot more silver and less green--but it
might be.  I'll have to see if I can find a better picture.  Or go browse at a big
nursery and ask someone.  I hoped it would be perennial, but this is zone 5 (at
best).  I wonder if I could take it inside like a mum and keep it in the garage.
Judy Warner

Blee811@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 7/12/98 10:29:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> lindsey@lorien.mallorn.com writes:
>
> <<  I bought a plant this spring that I don't know the name of---hoping
> someone
>  > can help.  It has silver foliage, like an artemesia, but has fairly rounded
>  > leaves and has curving branches.  Its habit is like a large
> myrtle--spreading
>  > rather than upright.  It has grown fast.  I've seen it planted in with
> geraniums
>  > in boxes.  I don't know if it's annual or perennial.    Judy Warner >>
>
> Doesn't sound like 'Dusty Miller' to me.  I think it is Helichrysum petiolare,
> commonly called Licorice Plant around here.  It does have rounded leaves and
> they're kind of velvety looking.  And I've seen it often in containers and it
> is more spreading than upright like Dusty Miller.  I think it may be a woody
> shrub in some warmer zones, but here in 6a Cincinnati it is grown as an annual
> because it does not survive.  It's a lovely plant but mine always gets some
> disease and dies prematurely.  Try it with the purple-flowered heliotrope--a
> killer combination I think.
>
> Bill Lee
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