Planting Dusty Miller For Floral Arrangements

Hues of Gray For Your Arrangements

If you are looking to make your floral arrangements look unique and have an interesting texture, you can always rely on using Dusty Miller plants to achieve that goal.

Known for it’s silvery-gray fern like foliage, Dusty Miller is also known as Silver Dust due to it’s silver hue foliage. I love working with this foliage in my floral arrangements because it’s color reflects well off of the other darker green foliages in arrangements.

Here in Southern Tennessee, Dusty Miller can be a perennial. We had a rough winter this last year and many of my plants never died back and they filled out beautifully in the early Spring. They love full sun and well drained soil. Other than those requirements, Dusty Miller plants are very easy to care for.

I enjoy cutting the individual leaves off of the plants and using them in corsages and boutonnieres, but I also like to cut the entire plant and use the whole plant in a bigger arrangement. Be prepared to remove the bottom leaves where they may have become damaged from the soil, but you will get plenty of bang for your buck when you plant these beauties.