Buddleia Lochinch Part Sun to Shade Sweet fern is a renaissance

Sweet fern is a renaissance plant in the garden

Excess moisture in summer is even more damaging than too much soil moisture in winter

flavorful leaves to brew a tea for treating digestive issues

heavily-textured foliage provide a nice foil for the whorls of yellow

Juncus 'Carman's Grey'

Buddleia Lochinch Part Sun to Shade Sweet fern is a renaissanceThis hybrid of B. fallowiana x davidii seems to be everyone's favorite. Inheriting the silvery leaf backs from B. fallowiana, this shorter cultivar (4 5' tall) makes a nice compact deer resistant clump with large foliage the overall effect is a shimmering silver bush. From midsummer until early fall, the plants are topped with fragrant, lavender blue flowers a great color echo for Russian sage.