The first is a fuzzy leafed plant that Madge is calling comfrey, seems as though the name rabbit tobacco sticks in my mind. The second is a plant with sort of a Lilly looking leaf. It has been in mom's flower bed for years with no care at all.

Thanks for your help

I think the second is in the arum family, related to the wild woodland plant jack-in-the-pulpit. Somebody should come along and know the scientific name. I've been thinking of ordering this for years but just never have.

The mullein is over at the old home place. I remember seeing it in the area for at least 60 years. The other plant is in one of mom's older flower beds. I don't remember planting, and mom has not been able to plant anything for several years.

I may move one of the arum plants over here because I don't have anything that green this time of year.

Larry

Helen,I like poke too, not only cooked with scrambled eggs, but just to look at in the landscape. I think it is beautiful, especially with a bluebird or two hanging onto the berry clusters in late fall and winter. I do have to weed a lot of it out of the garden though, because I've let it grow in the fencerow.

Larry, if you want green this time of the year, I can collect Hellebore seed when it ripens and send it. Not only is the plant green right now, but it has lovely white flowers. Other options for green now are the foliage of red spider flower and grape hyacinth. Oxalis is also still green.

I would love to get any seed that may look good this time of year. Madge and I know very little about plants and we want the place to look like it has a little more of a diversified touch.

Larry

Lisa

I bit the bullet a couple of years ago and bought my Lenten Rose and I have never regretted it. It does so well! It is a beautiful color of green and the blooms come when nothing else is blooming, except maybe the pansies, and they keep on going through daffodil season. It makes seeds every year and I let them germinate where they fall in the garden and dig them up in the spring. My plants are in an east facing bed with a big Rose of Sharon bush to their South so they get protection both ways.

Things that are green in my yard right now include boxwood, spruce, camellia, rhodies, euonymus, holly, nandina,(flushed with burgundy) oxalis, hardy autumnblooming cyclamen, ajuga, lambsear, rose campion (these two are silver) Shasta Daisy and in the garden the arugula, winter onion, garlic, leeks, carrots, cilantro and kale are all still alive and green. And the windbreak on the north side of the orchard is a row of pine trees we planted 30 years ago. And then of course there are the winter weeds in the lawn. Henbit, chickweed, wild violets are all out there now. We never weedkill in our lawn so it looks green all winter. And much of it is fescue and that stays green all winter.

Thanks for the beautiful picture and the information. I hope to start growing more flowers AND veggies.

Larry

If I have germination by the end of April I'll bring seedlings to the swap. I imagine I'll have seedlings of a mystery sage as well. It is still kind of green, BTW but turning browner from the top down.