I am getting ready to divide my Lambs Ears. These are really such cute plants with their soft silver leaves and do well as border plants and even look great growing under rose bushes! They are easy and carefree :) Please take a look at my trade list and let's trade! Thanks! Carol

Melissa, I'm glad that the blog is informative and enjoyable for you. I like Adonis Blue a lot. It is front and center in my garden since it is a smaller size (5x5) than some of the other varieties. It's easy to find companions for it as the color goes with just about any other color...yellow, apricot, salmon, carmine red, pink, lavender. For screening purposes, we use Royal Red. The royal purple blooms look great with yellow blooms or other purple/lavender color schemes. Those get pretty big (8x8 or larger), but we use them to screen our parking area from view. Out of necessity, I cut those back by half size when a storm almost blew them out of the ground. They had already finished the first bloom. This was the first time that I'd done a severe pruning in mid-summer. The results are fantastic as the bushes are full of fresh blooms for the Monarch butterflies! Now, I plan to prune all of my buddleia at the end of June next year so that the Monarchs will have more blooms in August/September. For a pretty pink/rose, I love Pink Delight (8x8). It looks great with purple smoke tree and monarda Blue Stocking. I have several with colocasia esculenta and purple palace heuchera (placed on the shady side of the buddleia). Coneflowers such as 'Ruby Star' would also look great beside it, but I don't yet have enough of those to place them with the buddleia. Cameron

might be. But don't remember it growing that large. And may not have been that much in one spot. In the post Warning this may make you want to expand your colection(something like that) there is a pic towards the bottom of the post that looks closer, but can't get back to it. My puter keeps freezing up.

Lower 30's wont hurt anything but maybe the flower of the iris. Newly divided plants are no more susptable to freezing than mature ones are. If it's going to go below 30, I would toss an old sheet over the plants....but sometimes a cover weighing on the plants does more harm than good. Linda C