Stachys
Stachys byzantina
Special Features
Known for dense clumps of soft fuzzy gray-green leaves shaped like elongated ovals with a velvety texture. Some species produce flower spikes with small tubular flowers in pink, purple, white, or lavender.
Plant Specifications
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Growing Stachys on Martha's Vineyard
Stachys byzantina, the lamb's ears, is a beloved textural perennial whose silvery, woolly leaves bring a soft, luminous quality to the sunny, well-drained borders of Martha's Vineyard's coastal garden properties, reflecting light effectively along path edges and border fronts throughout Edgartown and Vineyard Haven. It is exceptionally tolerant of the island's lean, sandy soils and handles the salt air, coastal wind, and summer drought that characterize oceanfront and near-coastal growing conditions with near-total composure.
The silver foliage is strongly deer-resistant, consistent with most gray-leaved, aromatic perennials. Estate Care professionals use lamb's ears as a reliable edging and front-of-border plant in exposed coastal garden programs, removing spent flower stalks promptly to maintain the clean, ground-hugging silver carpet that is the plant's primary ornamental contribution, and dividing congested clumps every two to three years to prevent center dieback.
