An Old World plant of the daisy family. Some kinds are grown as everlastings, retaining their shape and colour when dried.
Genus Helichrysum, family Compositae.
Olive trees planted in full sun look their best surrounded by scented herbs and silver-grey Mediterranean plants: helichrysum, lavender and rosemary....
These helichrysums are grown for their soft decorative foliage and produce masses of the stuff within weeks of being planted out.
All the plants are new with the exception of a helichrysum which has made it through two winters with only a little frost damage to the ends of its long stems.
Origin
Latin, from Greek helikhrusos, from helix 'spiral' + khrusos 'gold'. It originally denoted a yellow-flowered plant, possibly Helichrysum stoechas.