On 20/05/2011 10:30, Ian B wrote:
Last year I planted some stachys, which were sweet little furry things in
three inch pots. I just looked at the pots, they're tiny, and the labels
say, 'spread, 14"x24"'. These things are now gigantic, horizontally far
beyond 14" across and sending enormous furry spikes heavenwards in
abundance, while the rose bushes they're are planted around cower terrified
against the furry grey onslaught. Will these things consume the whole
garden?

On a more serious note, the "low level" leaves all seem to be going yellow
and dying off. Is this normal? It doesn't look very attractive. Is there
something I should be doing? Or is it supposed to be gigantic forests of
spikes surrouded by yellowy-brown mulch?


Are you sure that they are a Stachys, and not something like Salvia
argentea?
http://www.landscapedia.info/plant.php?plantID=31288

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Jeff