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Architectural plants work well in this context, so for a Slow plant, a spiky cordy line would be a good choice. If budget permits you could buy a large mature plant for instant effect, but if not, a small plant will look still good and after three or four years will catch up. Yuccas are also a good choice here, though their very sharp pointed leaves mean they should be sited with some care. Silver-leaved plants also work well in this context, and for large background shrubs, try Elaeagnus 'Quicksilver', with elegant leaves that keep their bright silver color right through until the autumn.

There are very good silver-leaved plants in the Medium category, too. The relatively low-growing shrub, Convolvulus cneorum is an excellent choice; it is evergreen with small, slender, spoon-shaped leaves that have a pearly sheen, and typical convolvulus trumpet flowers that open white from tightly furled pink- tinged buds. Lambs' ears (Stachys byzantine), with its furry grey leaves, is another good choice, forming soft mounds of foliage. It has yellow flowers, but if you dislike the color, snip them off and be rewarded with fresh new leaves. Purple sage is a great contrast to silver foliage. Both may look a little battered after the winter, so cut them back in spring. Picking up the spiky theme, Sisyrinchium striatum 'Variegatum' is a good choice, forming neat clumps of pale green and creamvariegated leaves with spikes of neat round white flowers in summer. It seeds itself freely — perhaps too freely — but in gravel the seedlings are easily removed.

As for the Fast plants, Verbascum olympicum produces a large rosette of grey felted leaves the first year and tall stems of bright yellow flowers opening from bright silvery grey buds the next. Try to buy one year-old plants to get the full benefit in the first year. These are temporary stars, though, and will usually die after they have flowered. If not, remove them when they compete with the permanent plants for space.

Russian sage (Perovskia) is a great permanent perennial, producing tall spikes of soft lavender-blue flowers on almost white stems, with slim, jagged grey leaves. It reaches virtually its full height in the first season, but will then spread to form a significant clump in subsequent years. Cut it back hard each spring as the new growth appears. Catmint (Nepeta x faassenii) is invaluable for the softening effect it has, forming drifts of grey-green leaves and producing hazy blue-mauve flowers. Clip it over once it has flowered to keep it neat. A very useful Fast plant for gravel gardens is one that is usually grown in hanging baskets — Helichrysum petiolare. In hanging baskets, its long trails of round, felted grey leaves hang down, but grown in the ground, these scramble along the surface of the soil and through other plants. For instant color in a gravel garden in the first season, California poppies (Eschscholzia califomica) in shades of hot orange and red or paler pinks and creams are hard to beat. They will self-seed in subsequent years, though as the permanent plants expand and cover the ground they will gradually die out.

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