Elegant groundcover (Lamium)

Member Name: Lady Muck

Product:	Lamium
Date:	28/03/02 (134 review reads)
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Advantages: Good for carpeting shady areas

Disadvantages: not particularly showy, more a garden workhorse

Lamiums are spring or summer flowering perennials which provide elegant groundcover in shady areas of your garden. They are fully hardy and though they like moist shade a well-drained soil is required as they don't like excessive 'winter wet'. Their common name is 'Dead Nettle', but the garden plants are not quite as humble as the common weed.

Whilst not being the showiest of plants, their value in the garden cannot be praised enough. They will carpet a shady area with oval, mid-green silver-tinged leaves with mauve-pink or yellow flowers in spring/summer. They can be easily propagated by taking stem cuttings or can be divided in autumn or early spring. A very handy plant for those awkward shady corners you may have.

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