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Grey Ghost Florida Anise
Illicium floridanum ‘Grey Ghost’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-9b  Find Your Zone
Plant Type:Â Evergreen Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity:Â 6-8′
Width at Maturity:Â 6-8′
Spacing:Â Â 5′ for solid hedges; 12’+ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form:Â Upright, Bushy, Rounded
Growth Rate:Â Moderate to Fast
Flower Color: Â Soft Pink
Flower Size:Â 2″
Flowering Period:Â Spring
Flower Type:Â Single
Fragrant Flowers:Â Yes
Foliage Color:Â Pewter Grey with White margin
Fragrant Foliage:Â Yes
Berries/ Pods:Â Â Yes
Sun Needs:Â Full To Mostly Shade, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun
Water Needs:Â Â Average
Soil Type:Â Â Clay (Amended), Loam, Sandy, Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage:Â Well Drained Moist, Moderately Drained
Soil pH:Â 5.5 – 7.5
Maintenance / Care:Â Low
Attracts:Â Visual Attention
Resistances:Â Deer, Disease, Heat, Insect
Descriptions
Excellent for use as an an attractive specimen or evergreen hedge in shade, ‘Grey Ghost’ is a very vigorous Florida Anise featuring unusual pewter-grey leaves with white margins. It is one of the most dependable broad-leaved evergreen shrubs for the shade garden and sites with consistently moist soil. In spring, this native produces uniquely shaped, soft-pink 2-inch diameter flowers with many strap-like petals that subtly but beautifully contrast with the leaves. Its thick leaves up to 6 inches long and 1 to 2 inches wide adorn the shrub year-round. A whiff of the leaves reveals a pleasant anise scent that tempts the passerby to tear a leaf in order to enjoy the spicy aroma.Â
Landscape & Garden Uses
With an upright habit and rounded form 6 to 8 feet tall and near as wide, the Grey Ghost Florida Anise is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings or as a natural evergreen hedge or privacy screen in shady sites with consistently moist soil. Also ideal for use in home foundation plantings to frame corners or as espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) between widely-spaced windows or on windowless walls.Â
Suggested Spacing:Â 4 to 5 feet apart for solid hedges;Â 12 feet or more apart for space between plants
Growing Preferences
Florida Anise is very easy to grow in organically rich, moist but well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. For best appearance and performance we recommend some shade in the afternoon. No pruning necessary. That said, plants can be clipped to control height or for shaping purposes.
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As always Wilson Bros plants healthy, and well established/ grown no matter the size. This Anise is particularly fun, as the gray foliage has an outer edge which is white- no blooms to see yet .Still lights the shady corner. The first winter I covered it with each night freeze or near freeze. Did well.————————————————————————–Thanks for the kind words and wonderful review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Received a very nice sized plant in great condition in a very timely fashion. The plant will be a nice gray green addition to our other anise that are lime colored. It is already blooming and full of buds after just a week. Hopefully this will be as deer resistant as other anise plants.————————————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
This big, gorgeous shrub is now in my side garden amongst the azaleas (also from Wilson Bros, of course!) in a new garden I created by cutting back a rambling old juniper hedge… it is so lovely, and I can’t wait to see it bloom!—————————————————–Thanks for the photo! We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the kind words and great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
I received my 3rd order today, I found your nursery while on a road trip through Georgia with my grandkids. We bought a crape myrtle and took it from hotel bathtub to hotel bathtub the rest of the trip. Once we got back to Florida I started ordering from you. I have been very pleased with the packaging and the plants I receive and will continue to order from Wilson Bros. Keep up the good work your awesome.————————————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Two of these beautiful plants are now at the edge of my shade garden. They seem very happy. If they bloom next year I will send photo. The plants are reasonably priced considering they include shipping and unheard of in this state. I have a large number of your plants that I’m waiting to hear are back in stock.———————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! we will contact when your Waiting List items are available. Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I ordered 8 Florida Anise Illicium in 3 gallon pots. They arrived in less than a week. The plants were well packed and arrived in beautiful condition. They were exactly what I had ordered. I will definitely use Wilson Brothers Gardens again.————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Love this white edged anise for a newly developed shade area. Plants are ALWAYS well packaged and never damaged. Such reliability from the Wilson Bros.————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
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