Shade Gardening: 4 sure signs of spring, 2 by Pistil

Pistil wrote:
ssg- That silvery bun is Potentilla atrosanguinea argyrophylla. I got 3 from Bluestone in 2011. It's sort of a yin and yang plant-in spring it is this perfect little soft bun, with leaves oh so soft. No spreading or seeding about here, and every one of the three is still here, despite dreadful neglect- it's clay and builders rubble, often dry as a bone in summer (last year it wasn't watered for well over a month) then soggy for 6 months- but comes back like this every year. Then in June, it sends out sprawly stems that scramble around into neighbors and over the sidewalk and flower in an intense psychedelic yellow with orange-see here just as it's getting sprawly, and then in a flaming hot combo. I cut it back when the leaves look tired late summer, then here the leaves start in fall and grow all winter until it is like this today. Oh I just realized we are in the shady forum, this is in mostly sun here oops. I looked in PlantFiles, I need to upload my photos there.
#1, #2 taken today
#3 May starting the sprawl
#4 June with daylilly