It is cold, damp and foggy here today. Was hoping the sun would break through, doesn't look like that is going to happen today. So out into the cold to do a bit of clean up. The hellebore are starting to bloom and specie tulips and narcissus are up but not blooming yet.
Tim, going to get a photo of the 'Thayne' you gave me. Last time I looked at it it was looking good.
Every year I had trouble with 'Lavendar and Old Lace'. Such a pretty semp when it is happy.
Karen I culled out a number of colonies last year that continually had problems with either cold/wet or heat/drought. Most of mine now do well year round.
But each of us has such different growing conditions, soil, moisture, cold/dry/wind, the variations are endless. All we can do is figure out the ones that will be happy in our very own situation.
Nice looking at that one on this winter day.
- and such squirrely weather is not is helping. All my semps were covered with snow and ice, then it rained and melted it all yesterday, then it snowed again last night and they are all covered again. I threw a half eaten orange out on my compost pile, and that darn squirrel found it, so i guess he is fine in his cushion lined nest. 
The benefit of having century semps is that they still thrive in this weather. 
