Silver Dollar Eucalyptus Accent Plant - Container Gardening - July 2025

Back earlier this Summer, I planted a small quart-sized plug of Eucalyptus Pulverulenta (Silver Dollar Eucalyptus...or "Florist Eucalyptus" as an accent plant in one of the containers on our back patio.  I found it at the orange Big Box store nursery amongst the other 'accent plants' like Sweet Potato Vine, Spikes and Asparagus Ferns.    Below is a photo from May when I stuck it in the container along with the Crazytunia (purple one) from The Growing Place:

Here, below, is the container that it came in - from Vigoro (which...I think is Home Depot's 'house brand', right?).

I don't seem to have posted about this when I planted it, but I think that's because I wasn't sure how this would do.  That container chewed through a few things - killing off some spillers/fillers like this Icicles plant.  Perhaps it was a soil or water problem, but whatever it was...this Eucalyptus has overcome them.  So, too, has the green Medusa Sweet Potato vine in this container.  It is thriving.  Filling instead of 'spilling' though.

See below for the current state of this Eucalyptus.  I haven't cut any of it back, but I'm going to do so soon to try to get it to grow a little bit more 'bushy'.  

I have used this Silver Dollar Eucalyptus in evergreen/wintertime arrangements over the past few years.  But, I've had to buy it from Trader Joe's.  Now that I know that I can get this stuff to grow in containers, I'm thinking that for next Summer, I plant a bunch of it to use in Summer arrangements/cut flowers.  

Adding this item to my 2026 to-do list:  Plant more accent plants for cut flowers.  Including Eucalyptus and Icicles/Licorice plants in big numbers.