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Touchable Plants

By Susan Morgan, HGTV.com
From the fuzzy fiddleheads of ferns to the touch-responsive leaves of sensitive plants, many plants extend their leaves, buds, stems, blooms and seedheads, encouraging you to come closer. Here are just a few plants that invite you to reach out and touch.
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Chenille Plant
Next: Lotus
The fuzzy, red, catkin-like blooms of the trailing Acalypha repens and shrubby A. hispida make them intriguing novelty plants to pet. Whether you choose to use chenille plant indoors as a houseplant or outdoors in containers or in-ground, this lovable touchable will attract the interests of all your garden visitors.

Other plants with soft or fuzzy flowers:

  • Mexican bush sage (Salvia farinacea)
  • Gayfeather (Liatris spicata)
  • Cockscomb (Celosia sp.)
  • Lemon bottlebrush (Callistemon citrinus)
  • Pussy toes (Antennaria dioica)--fuzzy flowers and foliage
  • Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia)--spiky flowers and fuzzy foliage


    • Chenille Plant

    Lotus

    Passion Flower

    Blood Lily

    Jerusalem Sage


    Verbascum

    Mexican Feather Grass

    Magnolia

    Coast Silk-tassel

    Birchbark Cherry


    Agave

    Other touchables

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