Silver King Euonymus

Rely on foliage plants to create the foundation of a low-maintenance landscape. Spend time planning your design to take full advantage of natural features of your yard.

Spotlight a sloped hill. Make the most of mature trees. Draw your guests eyes to the patio; or accent offset, modern architecture. Even a wall can become a wonderful garden feature.

Use the silvery-variegated Silver King Euonymus (Euonymus japonicus 'Silver King') as a very useful, showy workhorse. Let it add stunning color and texture to your landscape.

Oval, glossy green leaves feature varying creamy white to silvery-white irregular margins. With cool-toned, irregular white margins on glossy green leaves, Silver King shines in sun or partial shade. You'll never grow tired of this elegant, year-round display!

Silver King Euonymus is a perfect size for an evergreen hedge or privacy screen. It's certainly dramatic enough to be a focal point, but partners well with other shrubs in a mixed planting.

Silver King takes shearing very well, and can be grown as a formal hedge or fanciful topiary. When sheared, you'll trim off the inconspicuous blooms and fall berries.

In some areas, Euonymus does "too well." Nature Hills abides by the local, state and federal regulations on invasive plant materials, using Plant Sentry™ to block shipments to keep communities safe.

Type in your zip code in our Zone Finder above the Plant Highlights to see if we can ship into your area. If we can safely ship to you, you'll grow to appreciate the low-maintenance nature of Silver King.

Silver King makes an excellent plant for hot, dry climates. It thrives in poor soils, and won't lose leaf color in direct sun.

The natural growth is an upright vase shape in early years, then it mounds naturally. It stays full and dense all the way to the ground.

Prune to shape or keep it smaller. You can even train it up as a tree-form, or shear into a geometric topiary for an architectural accent.

Brighten up your landscape with one or more Silver King Euonymus shrubs. Order today!

How to Use Silver King Euonymus in the Landscape

There are many ways to get the most from your investment in Silver King. Try them in large outdoor containers to decorate your porch, patio, balcony or deck.

Prune them into amusing topiary columns, cones, or curlicues as a formal ornamental exclamation point. Or, let them become a freeform "living sculpture" with incredible variegated foliage.

Plant two as a pair, flanking either side of your front door. Use one to beautify a bare space between windows.

Grow them in the ground, even in your toughest spots. They'll take full sun and poor soil and are water wise once their roots are established in your soil.

Plant them four feet apart on center to create a solid hedge. Measure from the center of the first plant to the center of the next.

Trim them tightly, or leave them alone to grow naturally. Either way, they'll look dazzling in the available light.

The close-knit branch structure allows Silver King to become a very effective privacy screen. Use a row in your side yard, or one or two planted strategically to hide unattractive views.

They make marvelous living walls of a garden room. Entertain like royalty in an open-air outdoor dining room.

Create a memorable experience with espalier plantings. Study our blog on small space gardening to learn how to prune it flat to a flat wall or trellis. Silver King is one of the best shrubs to use for the ancient, decorative art of espalier pruning.

Repeat them as a wonderful backdrop to flowering plants in a perennial or shrub border. Be sure to snip branches to use as filler in cut flower arrangements.

#ProPlantTips for Care

Grow Silver King Euonymus in full sun or partial shade. You'll want to give it at least four hours of sunshine for the best coloration.

Well-drained soil is best. In fact, Silver King does very well in rocky, thin soil without much preparation at all.

We do recommend mulching over the root system with a three-inch layer. Pull the mulch back six inches from the stems.

For the first season, apply a medium amount of water on a regular schedule. Let the surrounding area become saturated, to encourage growth of a deep root system.

Container-grown plants need consistent supplemental water their entire life. Mulch them, as well.

After the plant is established in your landscape, it will tolerate periodic drought. Please protect your investment with water during extended drought.

Prune in early spring. Keep it tightly manicured, or give it a light shaping. Try it different ways in subsequent years. You might be surprised to find you prefer a looser look.

Silver King is a durable plant. It can be grown in urban environments, and can tolerate salty shore conditions.

Add these classy broad-leaved evergreens to your landscape for structure, texture and year-round color. Order Silver King Euonymus today!