Do you like plants with distinctive foliage? Got a spot in the garden that’s sun baked and dries out too quickly for most plants? Then you’re going to love Cassinia ‘Greenhills’, a low growing (30cm), wide spreading (up to a metre), native shrub with unusual, pale, very fine, golden-green foliage. The flowers are fascinating too - like little, wide brushes and a perfect match colour wise for the foliage.
What can you do with Cassinia ‘Greenhills’, apart from using it to solve dry garden problems’? Well, there are many appealing combinations to be made with other interesting plants. For a designed look, plant a row of it beside a path or against a fence. Then, at regular intervals, plant amongst it Aeonium ‘Schwartzkopf’, that tall stemmed succulent with rosettes of deepest red-black foliage.
Other plant combination ideas to try with Cassinia ‘Greenhills’ include Euphorbia ‘Kea’, with jade green foliage all year round and attention grabbing lime green flowers in late winter and spring. This is a good cold hardy combination.
In mild climate beach gardens, mix Cassinia ‘Greenhills’ with blue foliage, ground covering succulents. Try it too as a background to Ophiopogon ‘Black Dragon’, which has about the blackest foliage of any plant, or as a foreground to very dark flaxes such as ‘Black Rage’. A group of Cassinia ‘Greenhills’ as a foreground to the sky blue flowers of Dichroa ‘Blue Sapphires’ is another idea to contemplate.
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