Silvery Sunproof Variegated Liriope – Lilyturf – 1 Gallon Pot

Silvery Sunproof Liriope, also known as Lily Turf or Monkey Grass, is one tough plant. Stomp on it, drive over it with your car, cut it back to the ground…heck, we’ve accidentally sprayed it with glyphosate-based weed killers such as Roundup and it didn’t die. That said, we don’t advise spraying it with any broad spectrum weed killers!

Unlike other Liriope that will wildly spread where they are not wanted, ‘Silvery Sunproof’ forms neat clumps which gradually increase in size over time. In other words, you won’t see runners popping up 2 feet away from the plant! 

Silvery Sunproof Liriope sports some very attractive variegated leaves of white to creamy yellow with a dark green strip down the center. Lilac-lavender flower spikes resembling hyacinths rise above the grass-like foliage clumps in summer, adding extra appeal. This is the perfect low-maintenance plant for edging landscape and garden beds, or for planting in mass as a groundcover or underplanting small to large trees such as Crape Myrtles. If you are looking for a long-lived, exceptionally tough border plant or groundcover, Silvery Sunproof Liriope is a hard one to beat.

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of  USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5b, where this Liriope variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring. 

Silvery Sunproof Liriope is very easy to grow. It tolerates a wide range of soils, and prefers a well-drained moist soil, however will grow just about anywhere. It grows in full sun or shade, but produces the brightest and whitest foliage color with more sun.

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