more spring green

Looked into the tangle of old stems and found my lemon balm is reviving!

I'm glad to see it, but covered the crown up again with heap of dry leaves, as we have several nights of cold this week- in the low twenties.

There are tons of these small seedlings flanking my older hellebores. I think it's more hellebore seedlings; the ones I dug must have already been a year old I bet these are newer.

Rudbeckia is emerging too: