Dusty Miller
Scientific Name: Centaurea gymnocarpa
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Dusty Miller
Easy to grow, this member of the daisy family is good for borders or wild gardens. Most annual types are grown for their frilly, cuttable flowers, and perennials for their felty, gray foliage.
Dusty Miller are an easy to grow perennial. Dusty Miller is grown for it's silvery-gray, fern-like foliage.
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This annual is grown for its attractive silver-grey foliage and mounding form. Can over winter and act like a perennial in warmer areas, or if mulched heavily. Shear or pinch back plants if they become leggy.
Lychnis coronaria and cvs. (Rose campion, Crown pink, Mullein pink, Dusty miller)
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also known as Artemisia stelleriana 'Mori', Artemisia stelleriana 'Prostrata', Artemisia stelleriana 'Silver Brocacade' - Beach wormwood, Dusty miller, Old miller
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Dusty Miller (Senecio Cineraria) - A fine-leaved, half-shrubby perennial from the Mediterranean coast, where it grows from 1 1/2 to 3 feet in height, with much-cut silvery leaves and clustered heads of yellow flowers late in summer.
Dusty miller fills three glazed ivory pots. To finish the frosty look, we covered the potting soil around each plant with glacial blue tumbled glass. Display the pots in full sun, on entry steps or on a patio table. Water regularly.
Dusty Miller
Artemisia stelleriana
A pale green, introduced perennial plant with tall clusters of yellow flowers. Height: over 2' (60 cm). Leaves: densely covered on both sides with fine, white woolly hairs.
Dusty miller
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Dusty miller (Senecio cineraria, Senecio bicolor cineraria, Cineraria maritima)
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Dusty Miller
Senecio cineraria
1 to 2'
1'
Sun or part shade; well-drained soil; tolerates moderate drought.
This Dusty Miller does best in well drained, even sandy soils with regular watering. It is fairly drought tolerant once established, but should be watered during prolonged dry periods.
This cultivar of dusty miller is called 'Cirrus'.
Description
There are at least eight different garden plants commonly called "dusty miller".
Dusty Miller is generally utilized as a foliage annual, but it will flower sometimes lightly in its first season, and prolifically in its second season if it survives the Winter and therefore becomes a tender perennial.
Dusty Miller; or,
Mullein Pink
Rose Campion (Lychnis coronaria) is an evergreen biennial in our low-maintenance roadside sungarden. The genus name means "Lamp" & alludes to the ancient use of the felt-like leaves as lamp wicks.
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Senecio cineraria (syn. S. maritima), Asteraceae, DUSTY MILLER
Leaves alternate, 2-6 inches long, stiff, white-woolly, pinnately cut. Flowers are small, ½ inch diameter, yellow or cream colored, borne in corymb-like groups of 10-12 in late summer.
Other artemisias, some American, are also called wormwood; still others include southernwood (A. abrotanum), tarragon, silver king artemisia (A. albula), old woman, or dusty miller (A. stelleriana), Roman wormwood (A. pontica), sagebrush, sweet, ...
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Senecio cineraria 'Silver Dust' dusty miller
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Adding texture are several spiky dracaenas (Cordyline albertii) that contrast strikingly with white 'I Bless' reblooming iris. Silver dusty miller (Senecio cineraria 'New Look') adds yet another thread to the panoply of shapes, forms, and colors.
It once was the plant of choice in Victorian gardens, used commonly as an edging plant, in containers or planted out as a bedding plant with Dusty miller. It fell out of favor in the 1960s up until recently.
Dance' carex and the variegated English ivy, whose hue is picked up by the centres of the ornamental cabbage and chrysanthemum blooms—all set off by the unexpected counterpoint of the velvety, pewter-coloured leaves of 'Cirrus' dusty miller.
 See also: Green, Cineraria, May, Orange, Pink
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