Sometimes bright, flashy colors differ from one's vision in garden making. Instead, reliable, easy-to-grow plants with excellent foliage and long-lasting understated blooms are choices that blossom in our estimation the longer we grow them. This species of pearly everlasting is the epitome of this valuable class, with grey-green leaves felted white underneath, a spreading but not invasive nature, and off-white papery blooms that flower summer through fall. Plant at the edges of gardens and in moon gardens.