Miniature comfrey is not a delicate little thing...its flowers are dainty though. It flowers early spring (late April/early May here in Zone 6), ivory colored, held well above the foilage, looks very much like comfrey. The leaves are deep green and fairly coarse early in the season, very coarse and heavy by late summer, very very dark green...maybe 10 inches. It's a great groundcover in dryish shade, but as I said, can run in damp soil.
Yes, it's very dry here too. We had a bad dry spell in late July, but that broke, but now we're in a very bad heat wave and ...same as you...none of the promised thunderstorms yet. We heard rumbles yesterday, but nothing fell. The heat and humidity are incredible; our thermometer right now reads 99.5 degrees (5 pm.), but the humidity is so high that the "Heat Index" says it feels like 113-115 F. It's better in the shade, but not by much!
I just finished watching an old BBC Gardener's World and now I want great swathes of daffodils *LOL*. So, I think I'll get a cold drink and the catalogs and start seeing what I might order.
Will look up salvia trans.... Oh, and I found a strange little flowering plant in the front bed, that I think hitched a ride on an ornamental grass I planted last year. It looks like it might be a kind of vervain...will need to look that up.
Doing the rain dance for you! Annie
