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The plant flowers in late spring and throughout the summer months. Cut back any flowering stems close to ground level after they flower to encourage new stems and leaves. The flowers start out with pale green blooms on the ends of long stems and gradually open to purple flowers. The stems of the flowers are tall and erect and often branched. Children will love the texture of the leaves of Stachys byzantina. They are velvety soft with a wooly texture and are silver gray to pale green in color.
The plant tends to be evergreen but can die back and get ragged looking in the dormant months and will do well with a clean up in the spring. Every 3 or 4 years divide the plant in early spring, just as the new growth begins. The plant will benefit from a good pruning close to the crown in spring to remove dead leaves. This will help the plant to bush out and remain more compact. Un-pruned plants can get seedy looking and thin easily as this photo shows.
After division, add some organic matter to the soil and mulch around the plant to retain moisture and help with weed control. Stachys byzantina also grows easily from seed and is also self seeding. Intense heat in the warmer zones can make growing it a challenge unless you have a lot of afternoon shade in your garden.
Stachys byzantina makes a wonderful ground cover. It is a dense, low growing plant that spreads in a garden bed if it gets the right conditions, so it works well to fill in areas of your borders to keep the weeds at bay. This photo shows it in use in borders in a shady area at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. It was lush and gorgeous! The purple pink flowers make great cut flowers.
The color is great against the darker green colors in most borders to give nice contrasting shades. The undersides are usually lighter in color than the upper surface, which may appear greenish when wet. Each wide, lance-shaped leaf gradually narrows to a rounded point.
It is evergreen in areas with mild winters but dies back almost to the ground in cold areas. The stems will root where they contact the soil, allowing the plant to spread.
Insignificant purple flowers appear in sporadic furry flower spikes held erect above the foliage in late spring or early summer. The tiny, two-lipped flowers lower R are borne in clusters along the stem L and upper R. The 4-sided flowering spikes have many flowers in verticillasters a cymose inflorescence resembling a whorl but actually arising in the axils of opposite bracts crowded together over most of the length of the stem along with a few greatly reduced leaves. The tiny, two-lipped tubular flowers are mostly hidden by the hairs on the stem.
If pollinated, flowers may be followed by oblong, hairless, brown nutlets. Big Ears combines well with roses. It can also be used in larger mixed containers or in a sensory garden for people to touch the wooly leaves.
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