Specialty Gardening: Book Suggestions Please, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
I made the mistake of going just by color when I used a silver helichrysum, a silver with dark violet begonia and a dark violet petunia. Someone told me the helichrysum would take over: it did! Now I have to dig out the begonia to try to save it while the petunia died a quick death.

We all live and learn. I went by color when I should have been thinking of growth rate, moisture needs and how rampant the helichrysum would grow.