Silver foliage plants can be an exciting component of any garden, providing a good foliage contrast against a backdrop of green foliage or a vivid combination with bright flowers. Leucophyta Silver Nugget is one of the best silver foliage plants for a sunny, well drained situation. It grows with the greatest of ease and is happy in dry soils and beach gardens. Because its such a carefree plant, needing little attention except for an occasional light trim, it is popular in low maintenance plantings. On banks and beside paths it can be planted in big groups to form an eye-catching, weed beating, bushy ground cover. Its texture and colouring make it a superb plant to use on the edge of paving in such situations as courtyards, steps and paths.

Around a Mediterranean style courtyard it looks superb with Astelia Silver Spear, blue agapanthus, Beschorneria yuccoides, white flowered Rhaphiolepsis Snow Maiden, Felicia Golden Sapphire, lavenders and where theres shelter from frost the deliciously scented Heliotrope Baby Marine. If youve got a big blue pot plant consider planting a group of Leucophyta Silver Nugget around it for dramatic contrast.