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silver leaf lavender plant Silver Mist English Lavender – Plant DetectivesSilver Mist English Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia 'Silver Mist') Silver Mist English Lavender, Lavandula angustifolia 'Silver Mist', is a compact English lavender grown as much for its shimmering silver foliage as for its soft lavender purple flower spikes. Plants form a low, rounded mound of finely textured gray silver leaves that brighten sunny borders, paths, and containers even before bloom. In late spring and early summer, slender flower wands
Silver Mist English Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia 'Silver Mist')
Silver Mist English Lavender, Lavandula angustifolia 'Silver Mist', is a compact English lavender grown as much for its shimmering silver foliage as for its soft lavender purple flower spikes. Plants form a low, rounded mound of finely textured gray silver leaves that brighten sunny borders, paths, and containers even before bloom. In late spring and early summer, slender flower wands rise just above the foliage, adding gentle color, movement, and a classic lavender fragrance that makes this variety a natural focal point in well drained, sun drenched garden spaces.
Distinctive Features
Silver Mist English Lavender typically grows about 12 to 18 inches tall and 14 to 20 inches wide, forming a dense, cushion like mound that stays tidy with only light pruning. The foliage is a standout feature, with narrow leaves that read as bright silver from a distance and provide a cool, luminous backdrop for the flowers. Flower spikes carry many small lavender purple florets that create a soft wash of color above the mound rather than tall, towering stems. The combination of compact size, silvery foliage, and gentle bloom makes this variety especially useful where you want a bright, refined accent that looks good from spring through fall.
Growing Conditions
- Light: Prefers full sun with at least 6 hours of direct light daily for best flowering, strong fragrance, and dense, compact growth.
- Soil: Thrives in well drained, lean to average soils; avoid heavy or waterlogged ground and favor sandy or gravelly conditions that keep roots on the dry side.
- Water: Water regularly after planting to establish; once rooted in, water deeply but infrequently, allowing the top of the soil to dry between waterings.
- Hardiness: Suited to many temperate regions where English lavender is grown outdoors, especially when provided with sharp drainage in winter.
- Size: Forms a compact mound about 12 to 18 inches tall and 14 to 20 inches wide at maturity, depending on climate and care.
- Growth Rate: Moderate grower that fills in steadily without quickly outgrowing beds, borders, or containers.
Ideal Uses
- Edging and Pathways: Plant in a row along walks, drives, or bed edges to create a low, fragrant band of silver foliage and soft lavender bloom.
- Containers and Patio Pots: Excellent in clay pots, troughs, and mixed planters where the compact mound and silver leaves add brightness, scent, and texture.
- Front of Border Accent: Ideal for the front of sunny borders where its cushion like shape and luminous foliage form a neat visual anchor.
- Herb and Scent Gardens: Perfect near seating areas, entries, and paths so aromatic foliage and flowers can be brushed and enjoyed up close.
- Cottage and Mediterranean Gardens: Mix with roses, salvias, grasses, and other sun lovers for classic cottage combinations, or pair with stone and gravel for a cool, Mediterranean inspired look.
Low Maintenance Care
- Watering: After establishment, water when the top inch of soil is dry; avoid constant moisture or soggy conditions that can lead to root and crown problems.
- Pruning: Shear lightly after the main flush of bloom to remove spent spikes and maintain a dense mound; avoid cutting back into old woody stems that do not have leaves.
- Fertilizing: Requires only light feeding; in spring, apply a small amount of balanced, slow release fertilizer if soil is very lean, since excessive nutrients can cause soft, floppy growth.
- Mulching: Use a thin layer of gravel or coarse mulch around the base to improve drainage and keep foliage off wet soil, avoiding heavy organic mulches against the stems.
- Seasonal Care: In colder climates, provide excellent drainage and a sunny, sheltered spot; in late winter or early spring, tidy lightly to remove any winter damage and keep plants compact.
Why Choose Silver Mist English Lavender?
- Striking Silver Foliage: Bright gray silver leaves add light and contrast to borders, rock gardens, and containers even when the plant is not in bloom.
- Compact, Tidy Habit: Naturally low, rounded form is easy to manage in small gardens, narrow beds, and patio plantings.
- Soft Lavender Flowers: Gentle flower color complements the silver foliage and combines easily with a wide range of perennials and shrubs.
- Aromatic and Sun Loving: Fragrant foliage and flowers perform well in hot, bright exposures when planted in well drained soil.
- Versatile Design Use: Works as edging, a foliage accent, a container feature, or a small scale focal point wherever you want classic lavender fragrance paired with standout silver leaves.
With its compact cushion habit, luminous silver foliage, and soft lavender purple flower spikes, Silver Mist English Lavender is an excellent choice for adding color, scent, and a refined focal point to sunny borders, pathways, rock gardens, and containers.
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★★★★★ 5
This book healed me
Format: Paperback
Beautifully written and illustrated. Although Thi Bui and I have astronomically different life experiences, I still found I could relate on a deeply personal level. This book taught me empathy and forgiveness at a time in my life where I struggled to have it. Bui nailed the complicated feelings and emotions that comes with confronting abuse, abusers (who happen to be your parents), and the painful impact of generational trauma on both the parent and child.
Highly recommend this book to anyone who is on a path of healing their own broken heart.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2023
★★★★★ 4
Powerful Family History
Format: Paperback
After the birth of her son, Thi Bui feels an increased sense of urgency about learning the stories of her own parents. Like all but her youngest sibling, she was born in Vietnam, though the children came of age in the United States. While the war itself haunts all of them, was the reason they left their homeland, the wounds her parents bear go far beyond the military conflict. This was only the second graphic novel I’ve ever read (both have been memoirs), and like the first was also selected by my book club. I feel like the limitations of the format mean it will always be a less preferred one for me, because I found myself wanting more words, more depth to the writing itself. But the story is deeply compelling, detailing her father’s brutal childhood, her mother’s much softer one, how they came together, and how the Vietnam War disrupted the future they thought they might have. It’s not as straightforward as “Americans bad”, and Bui is not afraid of the moral ambiguity of that time and place, where the best interests of the majority of the Vietnamese people was an open question for larger forces that seemed to have little room for consideration of what might have actually made regular lives easier to lead. And apart from the larger geopolitical machinations around them, the family had their own share of tragedy, including the death of their first child and a later stillbirth. But three living children and another on the way was enough for her parents to make frantic arrangements to leave, finally succeeding and eventually making their way to the United States. But of course, that was not the end of their story, just the beginning of a new chapter. Bui’s childhood as she depicts it makes it clear that it wasn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but what shines through is her tremendous empathy for her parents and how they became the people she experienced them as. Overarching the narrative is a meditation on parenthood, as it is the birth of her own child that inspires her to ask her parents more. They might have made major mistakes, but it is clear that they loved their children and did what they thought was best for them, making countless sacrifices to give them the best opportunities possible, even if that love was not always shown the way that they wanted and needed to feel it. Vietnamese perspectives on the war in their country were not something I was exposed to growing up (honestly the Vietnam War itself wasn’t something I remember being taught with particular rigor in high school apart from its connection to electoral politics), and I appreciated learning more about the history of the country and how the people who actually lived through the conflict thought about it. Even though this is not my preferred format, I think Bui uses it well to engage in some non-linear storytelling and to very literally illustrate what she’s trying to get it, like the way she parallels the way her relatively rural parents must have felt seeing Saigon for the first time with the way she felt when she first moved to New York, a sense of awe and possibility. It’s a powerful, moving work and I would recommend picking it up!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Truly, the best we could do
Format: Kindle
An excerpt from my analysis essay I submitted for my literature course: By revisiting her family’s past from before, during, and after the Vietnam War, she gained a deeper understanding of the emotional burdens her parents carried and the sacrifices they made that defined the entirety of their lives. Bui’s illustrated graphic memoir reveals that trauma does not simply disappear over time; instead, it becomes inherited, processed, and transformed. Through this process, Thi Bui is able to move toward empathy for her parents, acceptance of who they are, and a more complete sense of self.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Phenomenal. A must-read!
Format: Paperback
I first learned about this book only a week ago when visiting my sister for Thanksgiving in Eugene, Oregon. We went to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art where I saw some work on display by the author, and there was a copy of her book available to look at, so I perused through and decided to buy it and read it. I'm so glad that I did! This is an incredible, poetic story that spans four generations, multiple wars and conflicts, and examines the fragility of the author's relationship with her parents and with her sense of place and motherhood. This book is one of the best I've read in a long time, and the art is moving and beautiful. It gave me new insight into the struggles of refugee life, and created a truly relatable narrative. I devoured this story in one Saturday. I highly recommend it.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2018
★★★★★ 5
A well composed memoir
Format: Paperback
Full review on nguyentoread.com
The Best We Could Do is Thi Bui's graphic memoir. Thi was born in Vietnam three months before the Vietnam War reached what we consider to be the end of the war. She came to America with her family in 1978. Bui's memoir spans multiple generations. In learning of her mother's and father's pasts, we learn the history of their parents. We see the struggles and pains of two people from very different walks of life trying to live during a time of war and chaos. We see glimpses of the agony everyone in the middle of the Vietnam War faced. Those who were not directly involved on either side but were caught in the middle of larger powers at war. This memoir more closely details the lives of her parents leading up to them arriving in America and making their life there. I was unsure if this memoir would focus largely on the experience of being a Vietnamese immigrant in America. There were parts that showed how it was for Bui's parents in a country where tensions were still high after the Vietnam War, where discrimination largely due to that was overt, and where degrees were not recognized and people who had spent their lives working and creating careers for themselves were not qualified for most work and had to hurdle multiple challenges to learn a language and complete education all over again if they wanted to provide a better life for their children. What Bui so beautifully captures in this memoir is the why behind how her parents were in raising her. Although Bui was born in Vietnam she was young when her family arrived in America. So I think her experience is one that many first generation Vietnamese-American people of my generation can understand and sympathize with. The wanting to know why their parents are the way they are but unable to ask because many have parents, like Bui's mother, who reluctantly share their stories and don't allow their children that glimpse that could help them better understand. In the panel which was most poignant to me, Bui draws her father as he looks over her work that would become The Best We Could Do. He says "You know how it was for me. And why later I wouldn't be... normal."
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2019