Check out A Ho-Hum Plant- Epimedium

I can't get to the NY Times link because I don't have a password.  But - 
epimedium a ho-hum plant?!!  I have loved them for years and years.  They have 
such beautiful evergreen leaves and will even compete with grass, they never 
give up.  They grow just as well here on lime and clay as they did for me in 
sandy acid soil.  And the flowers in the spring are a great bonus.  I have just 
now (since joining this list) begun to find how many kinds there are (that I 
don't have!) and am making plans for a vast collection, even if I have to 
uproot some things that don't do as well.

And also a vast collection of hellebores, something I sort of neglected till 
recently and have fallen in love with.

And hardy cyclamen - the ones at the farm (with the sandy acid soil) were a 
fabulous blooming ground cover in November.  They have seeded themselves more 
and more over the years.  I'm just starting to get them going here on the clay 
but the most recent ones look like surviving.

It looks like I will have home grown tomatoes till well into December - the 
ones I picked green before first frost are getting ripe and delicious.  And 
there were still yellow leaves on the trees until a couple of days ago.

Gale Link - Nashville z6

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