Silverywhite leaves with green edges form a lush ground cover with small pale pink flowers. In summer it produces vibrant spikes of bright red, purple or pink flowers. Colorful leaves and tolerance of ordinary soil make this a popular ground cover for shade. Deadnettles, how to grow and care for lamium plants. Beacon silver silver leaves with narrow green edges. It is easy to take some plants for granted and lamiums fit neatly into this category. They can be grown in either a sunny or partially shaded part of the garden that has good drainage. Plants will be in seasonal condition with appropriate foliage. Apply a balanced fertilizer monthly while your lamium is actively growing. This website was created by silver seed farms, llc and through ipage web hosting service, all with 100% green energy sources. Spring to summer plenty of pink flowers will open in clusters over the foliage. White nancy deadnettle lamium maculatum white nancy.
This plant does enjoy some moisture in the soil but is tolerant. Pink pewter has prolific pink flowers and silver variegated leaves, while white. This is a very low care plant if planted in appropriate conditions. 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. Lamium maculatum beacon silver spotted deadnettle beacon. Lamium forms a vigorous spreading matt of foliage, perfect for groundcover or used in the foreground of large beds. 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 lamier vivace couvre. Deadhead regularly to encourage continued blooming. Shade, partial sun propagation guide tray sizes cellstray. The royal horticultural society is the uks leading gardening charity. Appearance lamium maculatum is a mediumsized, semievergreen, herbaceous perennial. 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. A matforming perennial that spreads quickly by rooting.
White nancy lamium the silver beacon lamium grows in partial shade and can produce plants from 4 to 6 inches tall. Buy dead nettle lamium maculatum beacon silver rhs plants. The leaves are white edged with a thin line of green. We aim to enrich everyones life through plants, and make the uk a greener and more. A sturdy, fast growing ground cover for shade and semishade areas, it tolerates a wide range of soils and moisture levels. Though superficially similar in appearance, it is not related to nettle, and does not sting. This fastgrowing perennial functions well as a groundcover and is resistant to deer and rabbits. Clusters of purplishpink flowers appear in spring, then continue off and on until fall. Varieties are available in a range of color combinations with leaves in various shades of green marbled with white or silver. My beacon silver is starting its fifth year and it is currently bullying a dwarf.
Garden guides and san francisco gate, as well as several e books. They form dense 1224 tall clumps of deciduous, silver and green checkered foliage. Yellow archangel plants, lamium galeobdolon are hardy in usda zones 610. Home plants perennials other perennials lamium maculatum beacon silver. The silverleaved cultivars i have make more leaves than the slugs can eat, but the anne greenaway variety seems to be afraid to grow. They have been wonderful, spread to about 80cms in a few weeks and have flowered all winter. Cottageinformal, beds and borders, ground cover, low maintenance, underplanting, wildflower, wildlife, woodland. 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. 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 beacon silver spotted. The flowers bloom all summer long and the plant requires little care.
Plant in moist, freedraining soil in either full or dappled shade. This is a distinctively variegated selection of spotted deadnettle, a superb herbaceous perennial groundcover native from north africa through europe to western asia. Trail from mixed perennial containers or edge perennial borders. Silver beacon lamium has heart shaped leaves edged in green. Lamium is one of the best choices for a tough yet showy perennial groundcover. Beacon silver lamium 4 potted plantspotted dead nettle. Lamium spotted dead needle is originally from europe and north africa. Sign up for updates on new plant arrivals and deals. Lamium, spotted dead nettle lamium maculatum beacon silver. Purple deadnettle can grow throughout the year, including mild weather in winter. Perfect for keeping out weeds and highlighting shady corners, the silvery leaves are tidy and pestfree. New garden plants is your convenient online garden plants center. Lamium deadnettle deer resistant ground cover for shade. This classylooking selection forms a spreading patch of small silver leaves with a narrow green edge.
This ground cover lends beautiful cover under our old holly tree at fordhook farm. They are lowly in stature and most gardeners do not get very. Spotted dead nettle beacon silver lamium beacon silver. Lamium maculatum beacon silver the biking gardener. Although a moist humus rich soil is best, lamium maculatum will cope with dry periods. Lamium maculatum planting, growing and propagating.
Forms a lovely mat of silverandgreen foliage, topped with purple flowers in midspring. Lamium maculatam red nancy red nancy spotted dead nettle. It is amazing how this plant can light up a dark area of the garden with its variegated foliage. 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 maculatum beacon silver telegraph garden shop. Brightens shady areas in hotter climates or good for full sun elsewhere. Lamium maculatum beacon silver beacon silver spotted dead nettle. 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. Book depository books with free delivery worldwide.
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. It is a matforming perennial with a mass of small, nettlelike in appearance, not feel. Dead nettle lamium maculatum beacon silver from perennial farm. Easily the most popular of deadnettles, maybe along l. 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.
Clusters of brightpink flowers appear in spring, then continue off and on. Its colorful greenandsilver leaves make a soft, attractive accent in landscapes and combination pots. Lamium purpureum is commonly known as purple or red deadnettle, red henbit and purple archangel. Gardenality is a gardeningcentric site made by gardeners for gardeners with tools that enhance any gardening for the expert to the weekend gardener. Tolerating full shade, this is a very useful ground cover plant for awkward areas where little else will succeed. Lamium maculatum beacon silver trailing, mounded variety has silver leaves with green margins, and pinkishpurple flowers at the end of the stems all summer. The time that you sow the seeds of lamium is dependent upon the species that you are growing.
This classic selection forms a spreading patch of small silver leaves with a narrow green edge. An excellent, evergreen ground cover with silver, heart shaped leaves bordered in mid to deep green. Lamium maculatum spotted dead nettle redviolet, leaves often silver striped. Lamium sometimes known as dead nettle are excellent groundcover plants for shady spots. Lamium beacon silver about this plant this popular variety has silvery leaves with narrow, green margins which provide a lovely backdrop for the lavender. The genus includes both annual and perennial species. 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. Lamium makes an excellent, weedsmothering groundcover and is also a good mask for dying bulb foliage. Lamium maculatum album clusters of hooded, white flowers from may to july held just above the mat of green, silver splashed leaves. They are lowly in stature and most gardeners do not get very excited about them some even consider them little more than weeds.