Silene, Bloody Mary, Bloody William, Lychnis, Mullein Pinks, Rose Campion 'Alba'

Both the silver woolly leaves and firm open stems create a very interesting spot in the garden. It's true that the plant dies down by mid...Read More-summer, but by then other neighbors are filling in that spot. I prefer the white flowers, since I feel they enhance the cool, open quality of the plant more than the pink flowers do.

A short-lived plant that reseeds heavily. This is the first year I have allowed reseeding; we'll see what color I get next year.

UPDATE: I actually have none of these surviving in my garden this year, despite my reseeding efforts. I will substitute with another plant rather than replace it.

This plant has grown so easily for me for 4 years. I inherited it from the previous homeowner. It always looks lovely, reseeds easily s...Read Moreo that I have now made a nice border of 14 plants (where I only had 2 to start), and I am envied to have the white, while everyone else around has only the fuchsia. It is in an area of my garden that is about half-shade. It is a biennial so that you have to wait a year for the re-seeded plant to flower, but the foliage is very nice.

Very reliable from seed, but the flowers are small and the plants skimpy. I would have continued to grow a few of these if it weren't fo...Read Morer the fact that they reseed so prolifically that it becomes a nightmare trying to remove the unwanted volunteers.

I was given some of this or I would never bother. I don't like the "blooms on the ends of sticks" look. I don't like how few blooms you...Read More get for the space. I do like the foliage- gray/greeny-white and fuzzy. It has babies everywhere, but easy to pull out or move. Seems like you could use the foliage as an edge and forget about the blossoms, except it tends to dry and turn brown mid season.