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Snow in Summer
‘Snow in Summer’ lives up to its name in late spring when the foliage is smothered in luminous white flowers. Beautiful used as a path edging, in a stone wall or cascading over containers. Try it amongst your spring bulbs – tall lily flowering tulips above a dense carpet of white Cerastium… Breathtaking!
Blue Shrimp Plant, Honeywort, Blue Wax Flower
This beautiful highly versatile, aristocratic border plant has become very much in vogue in recent years. Oval, fleshy blue-green leaves spiral up the stem with tightly packed, sea blue bracts – and then the finale – small clusters of rich purple-blue tubular, nodding flowers which are adored by bees.
Cardoon
Whether you are into the culinary arts or edible landscapes, you may want to put this plant at the top of your list. Chosen by the RHS as one of the top plants of the last 200 years, Cardoons are aristocrats in both the ornamental and the vegetable world.
Aka 'Pink Champagne'
Digitalis ‘Silver Fox’ is one of the most beautiful dwarf Foxgloves for the cottage garden and border. Growing to just 60 to 70cm tall, the creamy-white speckled bells are flushed with soft lavender-pink. An elegant and rare foxglove that is ideal for borders or containers.
Globe Thistle
One of my favourites for the back row. The rounded, violet-blue flower heads on silvery, branched, leafy stems are actually much softer than they look. An unusual colour and structure, so a great conversation piece and an excellent dried flower.
Myrtle Spurge
Euphorbia myrsinites is a charming plant, a prostrate-growing evergreen with trailing stems that are clad in spiraling grey-blue leaves. An easy, tough, tidy groundcover and one of the most useful and highly ornamentally plants to grow in the garden. 
English Lavender
The deepest purple of all and one of the most popular lavenders is ‘Hidcote Blue’. A compact variety, suitable for growing in borders or as dwarf hedging, with dense silver-grey foliage covered in fragrant, dark purple-blue flower spikes in mid-summer.
True English Lavender, Old English Lavender
Lavendula angustifolia is an excellent plant for low informal hedging and as a specimen evergreen for borders and formal gardens. Flowering generally begins from mid to late June to early July. The flowers have a rich sweet scent and are highly attractive to bees and other beneficial insects.
Dwarf English Lavender, Hedge Lavender
Munstead Lavender is a fragrant robust English lavender that, due to its short size and tightly held blooms, makes a great hedge. It flowers profusely in the spring, after which a good pruning will provide an attractive grey bush with highly aromatic leaves.
Butterfly Lavender, Spanish Lavender (US)
Lavender stoechas is an old variety, cultivated for more than 400 years, it is a favourite both for its intense fragrance and for the short dense flower spikes. French Lavender blooms from spring to frost and has a good clean scent. 
Russian Sage
Russian Sage is one of the great garden plants of all time, but if you’ve been frustrated by their floppy nature, this new variety will be a welcome addition. Growing to about 60 to 75cm tall, Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Taiga’ is also the first Russian sage available as a first year flowering perennial.
Silver Sage
Salvia argentea is prized for its spectacular, large, furry silver-grey leaves. The plants form an attractive mound that provide a dramatic background for colourful summer flowers. It complements purple or magenta flowers and looks gorgeous in a ‘white’ garden.
Lavender Cotton
Santolina, commonly known as Lavender Cotton is a small shrub with soft, woolly, finely divided foliage, that make neat, rounded bushes. They are valuable for mass planting, ideal for knot gardens and small hedging around herb gardens etc. It will stand any amount of clipping and shaping – a perfect plant for control freaks.
Lambs' ears, Woolly Betony
Also known as Stachys lanata, or olympica
What can I say? Its a plant you can pet!…Bees love it…children love it….and you just have to stoke it on the way past! Lambs’ ears is a well-known ground-covering perennial, popular for its soft, fluffy foliage, plus, it’s a great silver accent in between all the green going on in the garden.
'Polar Summer', 'White Bride' or 'Silver Lining'
One look at this species of Verbascum and you will realise why it is also called ‘Arctic Summer’. Tall, white, fleecy flower stems emerge from felted evergreen leaves in early summer. Its stems and leaves are covered in a silvery down that gives it an appearance of being permanently covered with frost.
Louisiana sage
Prized for its beautiful foliage, Artemisia ludoviciana bear soft, silvery-white leaves. They add a different element to the garden, the texture and leaf form setting them apart from those other garden plants with rather less refined foliage.
Also known as 'Boughton Silver'
Artemisia stelleriana ‘Mori’s Strain’ is a superior, dense, mat-forming selection. Uniquely shaped silver-white felted leaves with deeply divided, rounded lobes, it forms very attractive low mounds, giving an attractive ground-hugging carpet. Its foliage makes a wonderful foil for more colourful flowering plants.
Tasmanian Blue, Florists Eucalyptus
Popularised by social media influencers Eucalyptus cinerea is one of the most desirable floristic materials. The blue-grey, round leaves have remarkable durability in the vase. Add a few stems to your shower and indulge in its powerful aromatic therapy. Relax, recharge, and reinvigorate.
Syn: Corymbia citrodora
Eucalyptus citriodora is a beautiful, fast growing species with sword shaped leaves that have an amazing citrus fragrance when crushed. the essential oils mainly consist of 80-90% citronella – at outdoor events a lush garland helps keep insects at bay.
Cider Gum, Gum Tree
Eucalyptus gunnii ‘Silver Drop’ is a wonderful fragrant foliage in high demand in the cut flower trade. Bred especially to provide small round, blue-green leaves that are better for fine floral work. Use it as filler in mixed bouquets where they add interesting colour, texture and aroma.
Syn: E parvi or E. parvula, Aka Kybean Gum
Eucalyptus parvifolia is an extremely versatile variety that makes a wonderful bouquet addition. It can be grown as an annual from seed if started early, each shrub-sized plant produces loads of stems that are perfect for flower arranging and can also be dried for later use.
Silver-leaved Mountain Gum, Florists Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus parvifolia is an extremely versatile variety that makes a wonderful bouquet addition. It can be grown as an annual from seed if started early, each shrub-sized plant produces loads of stems that are perfect for flower arranging and can also be dried for later use.
Italian Helichrysum, The Curry Plant
Helichrysum italicum is an easy to care for silver-leaved, perennial. In addition to its lovely light silveriness the foliage is endowed with interesting textures which provides contrast among green-leafed plants and the clusters of yellow flowers are useful for cutting. 
Silver spike or Icicle plant. Marketed as 'Goldkind'
From the Tian Shan Mountains of northern China comes this tough little subshrub that is among the finest expressions of silver foliage to be found. Helichrysum thianshanicum is a superb silver leaved evergreen, subshrub that forms a tight mound of eye-catching silver foliage.
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