It is hard to pick up a nursery catalog, go to a web site or garden center without seeing several cultivars for sale. Tissue culture and new enthusiastic breeders now have the new, latest, and greatest competing for our attention. The new hybrids are truly exciting. The breeders are stretching and expanding those white and silver leaf markings. One of my favorite old silvers is 'Excalibur'.
Flowers are rose to wine and the foliage is a stunning silver edged in dark green.
It is described as vigorous in growth. On my list for purchase this coming spring is another longifolia named 'Golden Haze'. Victorian Broach' has distinctive flowers of magenta-coral and over spotted foliage that is a tight mound in form. There are, at the very least, a dozen more named hybrids I am lusting after this spring, but until I find more room in the garden those three mentioned will have to suffice. Hellebores and Arum italicum make great companions.