This plant does enjoy some moisture in the soil but is tolerant. Colorful leaves and tolerance of ordinary soil make this a popular ground cover for shade. Its colorful greenandsilver leaves make a soft, attractive accent in landscapes and combination pots. My beacon silver is starting its fifth year and it is currently bullying a dwarf. They form dense 1224 tall clumps of deciduous, silver and green checkered foliage.
Silverywhite leaves with green edges form a lush ground cover with small pale pink flowers. The silverleaved cultivars i have make more leaves than the slugs can eat, but the anne greenaway variety seems to be afraid to grow. It is a matforming perennial with a mass of small, nettlelike in appearance, not feel. Shade, partial sun propagation guide tray sizes cellstray. This classylooking selection forms a spreading patch of small silver leaves with a narrow green edge. The royal horticultural society is the uks leading gardening charity. The flowers bloom all summer long and the plant requires little care.
Clusters of brightpink flowers appear in spring, then continue off and on. This ground cover lends beautiful cover under our old holly tree at fordhook farm. An excellent, evergreen ground cover with silver, heart shaped leaves bordered in mid to deep green. Gardenality is a gardeningcentric site made by gardeners for gardeners with tools that enhance any gardening for the expert to the weekend gardener. Buy dead nettle lamium maculatum beacon silver rhs plants. Spring to summer plenty of pink flowers will open in clusters over the foliage. Looking for creeping lamium, for your garden landscape. Lamium, spotted dead nettle lamium maculatum beacon silver. Perfect for keeping out weeds and highlighting shady corners, the silvery leaves are tidy and pestfree. Lamium spotted dead needle is originally from europe and north africa. Lamium maculatum spotted dead nettle redviolet, leaves often silver striped. Soil any position prefers full sun but will tolerate full shade cutting flowering spring and summer additional information lamium deadnettles is a genus of about 4050 species of flowering plants in the family lamiaceae, of which it is the type genus. A matforming perennial that spreads quickly by rooting.
The silver leaves are a wonderful foil to hardy geraniums and begonias which grow taller and the pinky purple flowers are very pretty. Forms a lovely mat of silverandgreen foliage, topped with purple flowers in midspring. New garden plants is your convenient online garden plants center. Lamium maculatum beacon silver hooded, pink flowers in may and june held just above a mat of silver grey leaves that have a pale purplish tinge. The genus includes both annual and perennial species. Lamium maculatum beacon silver beacon silver spotted dead nettle. Synonyms lamium maculatum silbergroschen family lamiaceae genus lamium can be annuals or, more usually, perennials, with coarsely toothed ovate leaves and 2lipped, tubular flowers borne in whorls forming a short spike. Lamium makes an excellent, weedsmothering groundcover and is also a good mask for dying bulb foliage. Easily the most popular of deadnettles, maybe along l. Cottageinformal, beds and borders, ground cover, low maintenance, underplanting, wildflower, wildlife, woodland. Lamium beacon silver about this plant this popular variety has silvery leaves with narrow, green margins which provide a lovely backdrop for the lavender. Tolerating full shade, this is a very useful ground cover plant for awkward areas where little else will succeed. Lamium maculatum planting, growing and propagating. This fastgrowing perennial functions well as a groundcover and is resistant to deer and rabbits.
The glittering heartshaped leaves of lamium maculatum white nancy ht 15 cm are almost completely silver except for a narrow green margin, and it has crisp white hooded flowers in spring. Beacon silver silver leaves with narrow green edges. The lamium is a creeping plant and can spread to 2 feet or wider. Lamium sometimes known as dead nettle are excellent groundcover plants for shady spots. White nancy deadnettle lamium maculatum white nancy. Silver beacon lamium has heart shaped leaves edged in green. Join our friendly community that shares tips and ideas for gardens, along with seeds and plants. Deadhead regularly to encourage continued blooming. The time that you sow the seeds of lamium is dependent upon the species that you are growing. Genus lamium can be annuals or, more usually, perennials, with coarsely toothed ovate leaves and 2lipped, tubular flowers borne in whorls forming a short spike details l. It is amazing how this plant can light up a dark area of the garden with its variegated foliage. Trail from mixed perennial containers or edge perennial borders.
The strange name aside, these short plants 610 high, when well grown, can add glistening sheets of color to shady areas were color may be missing. Plant in moist, freedraining soil in either full or dappled shade. How to grow dead nettle and other lamium plant species. To start from seed, place lamium seeds in a plastic baggy with a spoonful of slightly. Lamium maculatum beacon silver trailing, mounded variety has silver leaves with green margins, and pinkishpurple flowers at the end of the stems all summer. Home plants perennials other perennials lamium maculatum beacon silver. Lamium maculatum beacon silver the biking gardener. Lamium maculatum album clusters of hooded, white flowers from may to july held just above the mat of green, silver splashed leaves. Lamium maculatum beacon silver beacon silver spotted. The plants started a little slow the first couple of years, but since its third year, it has really filled into the bed, to the exact effect i wanted, plus some. Lamium maculatum beacon silver telegraph garden shop. Yellow archangel plants, lamium galeobdolon are hardy in usda zones 610.
Pink pewter has prolific pink flowers and silver variegated leaves, while white. Deadnettles, how to grow and care for lamium plants. Beacon silver lamium 4 potted plantspotted dead nettle. This classic selection forms a spreading patch of small silver leaves with a narrow green edge. It is easy to take some plants for granted and lamiums fit neatly into this category. We aim to enrich everyones life through plants, and make the uk a greener and more. The strange name aside, these short plants610 high, when well grown, can add glistening sheets of color to shady areas were color may be missing. My beacon silver is starting its fifth year and it is currently bullying a dwarf holly bush, a dwarf azalea, and my hosta growing up, around and through them. Lamium forms a vigorous spreading matt of foliage, perfect for groundcover or used in the foreground of large beds. Though superficially similar in appearance, it is not related to nettle, and does not sting. Lamium dead nettle buy plants online gardener direct. Lamium plant growing guide how to grow dead nettle. They are lowly in stature and most gardeners do not get very excited about them some even consider them little more than weeds. Lamium maculatum beacon silver lamier vivace couvre.
Appearance lamium maculatum is a mediumsized, semievergreen, herbaceous perennial. Dead nettle lamium maculatum beacon silver from perennial farm. The lamiums are called by the somewhat alarming name, dead nettle, but that means only this amazing little plant is related to stinging nettle a rough weed and doesnt sting. Clusters of purplishpink flowers appear in spring, then continue off and on until fall. They can be grown in either a sunny or partially shaded part of the garden that has good drainage. Lamium purpureum is commonly known as purple or red deadnettle, red henbit and purple archangel. This is a very low care plant if planted in appropriate conditions. Lamium deadnettle deer resistant ground cover for shade. This website was created by silver seed farms, llc and through ipage web hosting service, all with 100% green energy sources. Purple deadnettle can grow throughout the year, including mild weather in winter. They have been wonderful, spread to about 80cms in a few weeks and have flowered all winter.
They are lowly in stature and most gardeners do not get very. The leaves are white edged with a thin line of green. In summer it produces vibrant spikes of bright red, purple or pink flowers. Lamium, beacon silver plug flat moonshine designs nursery. Spotted dead nettle beacon silver lamium beacon silver. Lamium is one of the best choices for a tough yet showy perennial groundcover. Garden guides and san francisco gate, as well as several e books. Apply a balanced fertilizer monthly while your lamium is actively growing. Plant profile for lamium maculatum red nancy creeping. Brightens shady areas in hotter climates or good for full sun elsewhere. Although a moist humus rich soil is best, lamium maculatum will cope with dry periods. On apr 25, 2010, swimmingjewel from southold, ny zone 7b wrote. This is a distinctively variegated selection of spotted deadnettle, a superb herbaceous perennial groundcover native from north africa through europe to western asia. Book depository books with free delivery worldwide.
Lamium maculatam red nancy red nancy spotted dead nettle. White nancy lamium the silver beacon lamium grows in partial shade and can produce plants from 4 to 6 inches tall. A sturdy, fast growing ground cover for shade and semishade areas, it tolerates a wide range of soils and moisture levels. A frost hardy, low growing, mat forming perennial that thrives under trees creating an attractive carpet of green and silver splashed, triangular foliage. Lamium maculatum beacon silver spotted deadnettle beacon. Sign up for updates on new plant arrivals and deals. Plants will be in seasonal condition with appropriate foliage. Varieties are available in a range of color combinations with leaves in various shades of green marbled with white or silver.