Limelight Licorice Plant

Limelight Licorice Plant (Helichrysum petiolare 'Limelight') is a luminous, trailing foliage plant that brings a fresh burst of chartreuse-lime color and irresistibly soft, velvety texture to mixed container arrangements, hanging baskets, and garden borders. Its cascading stems are densely covered with rounded, felt-like pale yellow-green leaves that seem to glow in the garden, brightening shaded spots and creating stunning contrast alongside dark foliage, vibrant flowers, and cool blues and purples.

Grown from professional-grade nursery stock, Limelight Licorice Plant arrives with a healthy, well-established root system ready to establish quickly and perform throughout the warm season. Its vigorous trailing habit and exceptional heat tolerance make it one of the most reliable and versatile foliage fillers and spillers available for both container design and in-ground border work, where its soft, lime-toned leaves illuminate and elevate every planting combination it touches.

• Luminous Chartreuse Foliage All Season: Rounded, felt-textured leaves in a glowing chartreuse-lime color provide season-long foliage interest that brightens shaded garden spots, lifts dark container combinations, and creates striking contrast with purple, blue, orange, and deep red flowering companions.
• Outstanding Trailing Spiller Habit: Long, trailing stems cascade gracefully over container edges, basket rims, and retaining walls, making Limelight one of the most effective and beautiful spiller plants available for mixed patio and hanging basket designs.
• Soft, Velvety Tactile Texture: The densely felted, woolly leaf surface is as pleasant to touch as it is to look at, adding a unique sensory dimension to the garden and making this plant a favorite in children's gardens and sensory planting designs.
• Heat & Sun Tolerant: Thrives in warm summer conditions and full sun to part shade exposure, maintaining its vigorous growth and vivid chartreuse color even through periods of intense summer heat.
• Professional Grade Root System: This plant arrives with a healthy, well-developed root system that establishes quickly and delivers reliable, season-long foliage performance with minimal supplemental care.

This 4" healthy live plant thrives in full sun to part shade with moderate watering — allow soil to dry slightly between waterings, as Limelight Licorice Plant is moderately drought tolerant once established and does not perform well in consistently soggy conditions. As a tender perennial grown as an annual in most climates, it performs best when planted after the last frost date and thrives through the warm growing season until frost. It may overwinter in mild frost-free climates (USDA Zones 10–11). Mature trailing length reaches 24–36 inches. Pinch stem tips periodically to encourage dense, bushy growth and prevent legginess.