Name: La Plata Silver Leaf Rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus)
Brand: High Country Gardens
SKU: HC018940
Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)

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Silver Leaf Rabbit Brush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus La Plata) is a showy native shrub with silver-gray foliage and eye-catching display of golden-yellow flowers.

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La Plata Silver Leaf Rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus)

Not as silver as I've seen this shrub other times, but a fairly silver selection. They grow fast and are usually large shrubs by the end of the second season in the ground with no supplemental irrigation after the first year. One plant had an Artemisia tr

Good results

We moved into a new house that has electrical boxes etc. on the side of our front yard.  We wanted something that would grow fairly large to act as a screen in front of the biggest box.  Our plant has done very well and it's been less than a year!  We are

this Rabbitbrush is exactly what we needed

I wnat plants that do not require much water and tolerate very dry and hot conditions.

one plant of two seems to be dead,foliage has turned brown.

Be sure to plant this is as close to full sun as possible. We have three of these. The one that's in full sun and grown about 10x in just the first calendar year (second growing season). The other two are a bit less happy currently. They're surrounded by 

Pretty

It arrived small and healthy.  Year 2 it has quadrupled in size.  Hot site, not a lot of water and it's thriving!

I am buying more!

This is my second plant. The first arrived very small and beat up from the shipping. It died several days after planting and I received the relalcement which is doing great. It is now about 18" tall after about 3 months and very vigorous.

Rough start

The wet snow stomped this guy's form down last winter and never recovered the big round form. This Spring I cut it down to the ground. This image is what I got the same year in August. By mid September it basically looked like the intro image on this page

Kaplow!

Plants were smaller than expected when they arrived in the spring, but I followed the planting instructions and they took awhile to start growing, but always looked healthy. Now as I write this in mid-summer they have lots of new growth and are looking mu

Delicate plant but vigoruous growth

I ordered a couple of these 2-3 years ago to fill in a far corner of the yard.  It's an easy care native plant that provides protection for the abundant quail and other birds.  They are now 3' × 3', hoping they will get bigger.  I water 1× week, mulch wit

Bright and beautiful

I have a very sandy slope behind our home.  It is hot, hot, and dry.  I planted 3 silver leaf rabbit brush last fall and and so pleased with them so far.  They seem to be very hardy, not a bit of winter die back, and they are amazingly drought tolerant.  

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La Plata Silver Leaf Rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus)

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