What to do with a silver dollar plant?

The dried stalks of the Lunaria silver dollar plant makes excellent additions to dried flower arrangements created from your landscape either in conjunction with other plants, such as grasses, or alone clustered in a vase. Money plant care instructions are easy and straightforward.

When do silver dollar flowers start to grow?

By late summer, the large flat seed pods have dried to silvery discs that show off the seeds inside. Maybe those gardeners who consider the flower to be a pest have a valid argument. Once you learn how to grow money plants, they tend to become permanent additions to the landscape and pop up anywhere except where you wanted them.

Where did the silver dollar plant get its name?

Also known as Honesty, of the genus Lunaria, silver dollar plants are named for their fruit, with pods dry to flat silverish discs about the size of — you guessed it! — silver dollars. They hail from Europe and were one of the first flowers grown in the dooryard gardens of the New World for their pods and edible roots.

Can a silver dollar plant be a negative?

Nothing is as surprising as the money plant. Growing info usually points this out as a negative because the silver dollar’s papery pods are carried like kites on the wind and germinate where they fall.

Can a money plant grow in a flower garden?

They certainly aren’t suitable for more formal gardens, but they can be a delight elsewhere. Still, there are some very good reasons for caring for money plants in your garden. Nothing interests kids in flower gardening like learning about how to grow money plants. The seeds sprout easily. The plants grow quickly.

Is the lunaria silver dollar a perennial or perennial?

While lunarias are biennials, growing one year and flowering the next, they are so prolific they are often mistaken for perennials and considered invasive. What the money plant growing info usually fails to mention is they are so much easier to weed out than most other garden annoyances.