Silvery, Purple Beauty
At first glance, violet Silverleaf (Leucophyllum candid) may look like a nice gray shrub with a smattering of purple flowers.
BUT, when you crank up the humidity and add some summer rain into the mix and it really explodes with color…
These shrubs literally stop people in their tracks with their purple beauty.
(Leucophyllum candid) is easy to grow in arid climates and when not in flower, its gray foliage provides great color contrast in the landscape.
Find out more about this Texas native and why you’ll want to include it in your garden in my latest plant profile for Houzz.com:
Have you ever seen this shrub growing? Do you have one in your landscape?
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Noelle Johnson, aka, 'AZ Plant Lady' is a author, horticulturist, and landscape consultant who helps people learn how to create, grow, and maintain beautiful desert gardens that thrive in a hot, dry climate. She does this through her consulting services, her online class Desert Gardening 101, and her monthly membership club, Through the Garden Gate. As she likes to tell desert-dwellers, "Gardening in the desert isn't hard, but it is different."
Seeing these in the wild this past May, though awaiting the monsoon season, was one of the treats of going to Boquillas in the eastern Big Bend. So true on what gets them going. Kind of made up for it being 110 that day…