Lamb's Ears are the perennial that keeps on giving. This is a cropped detail of the photo below. The tall flower spikes from the summer have been cut down ~ the bees loved them.
I have thinned and moved these plants three times and shared them with friends since 1976. Are these plants still being sold in garden centers? I have no idea. I probably got my first mother plant at Well Sweep Herb Farm in Port Murray, NJ
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Yes, thank goodness, you can still find this lovely in garden centers. and you are right- it does keep on giving - beautiful all summer and fall and it makes the most beautiful dried arrangements and wreaths!
I've had Lamb's Ears for many years. Years ago while giving our oldest grandchild a tour of our yard and telling her all about the plants growing here, I showed her this plant and explained it probably got it's name because it was shaped liked a lamb's ear and because it was soft and wooly feeling. I also told her how people used it as a page marker in their bibles. She's 11 now and this summer I heard her telling the same story to her younger sister and brother. They all took leaves to use as page markers.
Lee Owenby --
Thank you for that wonderful story. I have never heard it before and I'm sure many readers haven't either. Now lamb's ears will have a whole new life as bible page markers.
xo, Rosemary
Thanks, ladies, I'll have to try both as a bookmark and dried wreath perhaps.
And just because I can, here is one use I bet you didn't know about Lamb's Ears. Native American women used to use them as Kotex type pads.
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