Photographer: Geni Certain, Munford

Signs of Spring NEXT | START OVER | PREVIOUS This blue dogbane, Amsonia tabernaemontana, just showed up one year. It's out of place in the flowerbed it chose, but too pretty to pull out. The hostas and ferns I planted in that bed aren't doing as well as the self-planted dogbane and spiderwort, so I'm letting the native plants grow. Submit a picture. Copyright © 2003 Consolidated Publishing Co.