whirlwinds in and out of pots

On my way home from this morning's workout, I stopped at Bates Nursery, mainly because I have a large Christmas cactus frond, one tomato cutting, and one geranium-from-Desire offshoot waiting to be established in fresh soil. I was not planning to acquire any plants, since I could easily occupy myself for several years with the weeding and trimming that needs to be done, but their English thyme looked great and as long as I was buying herbs, why not some golden lemon thyme and rosemary as well? But it was the "Whirlwind" Japanese anemone that I picked up, put down, walked past, and then came back to claim:





[I am out of practice with both blogging and taking photographs, not to mention a great many other things. Please to bear with me...]

[ETA: FFS, the images looked fine in preview mode. I'll get the hang of the sizing specs someday...]

What is growing again or anew with/for you?