winter break

The temps got up to 79 degrees (F) yesterday, and I spent almost all afternoon puttering around in my garden.

I straightened out the edges of my two main perennial beds in my front garden and re-laid out the shade beds (now, I have to dig out the extensions for this, add amendments and add additional plants.

The long lost daffodils planted in late fall are beginning to emerge.

And I shared Japanese anemones and lambs ear with a friend.

The lambs ear (stachys byzantium) are an excellent cultivar that I picked up at a nursery a couple of years ago. It doesn't send up a flower stalk (a big plus, given the clumsiness of sb's flowering efforts, a big green column with tiny purple petals that serve at spreading seed in places you may not want the plant). And with big broad leaves, it thrives in Indy, providing compact but consistent growth. During a break in winter, I divided several and they are all putting out leaves.