Foliage Annuals
Add some leafy color to your container or landscape with any of these foliage options.
Caladium
Caladium have large, spear- or arrowhead-shaped leaves on long stems. Depending on weather and soil, each leaf can grow up to 12 inches in length on 1-foot stems. Caladiums are unparalled for foliage color in bright, shady beds or borders, window boxes or containers.
Coleus
Coleus leaves are banded and veined with multiple colors like purple, lime, red, brown, white, and copper, in a variety of lacy or plain shapes. Leaf size can be from 1 to 6 inches, and plants have a mounded shape anywhere from 6 to 36 inches tall and almost as wide. Coleus grows best in moist, rich soil in partial shade.
Dusty Miller
Dusty miller prefers full sun and ordinary, well-drained soil, though they will grow in lightly shaded areas, too, brightening them with their silver color.
Licorice
Licorice Plant as an annual, bears stems that reach about 20 inches long. They are covered with furry, silver, heart-shaped leaves, also available with cream or yellow coloration. Great in container gardens! Blend a single, silver-leaved plant in a pot with cool blue and purple or warm red and pink flowers. Try the golden-leaved form with warm orange and red flowers. You also can plant masses of either color in annual beds for the contrasting foliage and season-long color.