I broke down and decided to start some seeds indoors. Typically I'm against this practice because I simply do NOT have the setup or space to do it properly. In the past this exercise proved to be too cumbersome, messy and a royal pain in the arse. I find it SO much easier to take a ride to my favorite local nursery and purchase plants that have already been started, hardened-off and ready to be planted.
However, when I ordered my garlic last fall, the company also sent along a half dozen packages of seeds as a bonus. Mostly veggies but a couple flowers too. This is what I've started indoors - Sunflower, Butternut Squash and Eggplant. Also started was White Campion, otherwise known as Lychnis coronaria (White Lambs Ear). We have oodles of Rose Campion (Pink Lambs Ear) but no White. It just so happens that on her way to work one morning last summer JoAnne noticed a yard that had a single, lonely White Campion plant so we patiently waited until the fall when the plant turned to seed, then stopped and "borrowed" a small clipping containing our sought after, precious seeds.
Walla!
I'm happy to report that since this picture was taken (4/26/2012) some of the plants are making an appearance and poking through the soil, with the White Campion being one, yippee!
Note: White & Pink Lambs Ear is what we were told their names are and what we've come to know these plants as. We do have a couple true Lambs Ear plants - Stachys byzantina, that again, we "borrowed" from a rest area in New York a couple years ago.
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