Your days all sound much more fun than mine! I did get a lot done, got a lot of pots that I want to keep emptied out and moved, beds cleaned up some, but the drip line that I wanted to remove was still frozen to the ground—even worse, the landscape pins that I used to secure it to the ground were frozen in place!
Hellebores and foxgloves are both so beautiful, will be trying them both in AL. Did you try the foxglove in sun or shade, LG? I've always seen them growing in shady areas, they self seed around Jeff's family's fishing cottage in Michigan, every time we go up there I want to take them home with me...