Stachys byzantina | Big Ears Jill Rizzo Plants can be cut back

Plants can be cut back after flowering and remain dormant over the winter period to reappear in spring

which is a cross between Euphorbia characias ssp

well-drained soils but is also drought tolerant once established although it will certainly appreciate some moisture in very dry summers and is happy in full sun

as well as planting instructions for growing in borders

a specimen plant or along the edges of streams or ponds

Stachys byzantina | Big Ears Jill Rizzo Plants can be cut backBig Ears is a beautiful and outstanding stachys variety that has much broader and bigger leaves, the leaves are also not as heavily felted so the leaves have a less "frosty dusted" look to them. The leaves are a velvety silver grey green. The flower spikes which appear on squared stems are taller and a mauvey colour, but this variety seldom blooms and we are yet to see a flower on ours but love the colour and the larger leaves, and the fact that it