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Lamium maculatum

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Lamium maculatum
Lamium maculatum

Lamium maculatum – ‘White Nancy’ or ‘Dead Nettle’.

With very attractive foliage and either white or pink flowers, Lamium maculatum makes an excellent ground cover plant for a shaded position. Fast growing and a good all round plant for beneath trees you get a ground cover with good foliage and the added attraction of flowers. 

With a few common names including ‘White Nancy’ and ‘Dead Nettle’, it is the cultivars that are most widely used in gardens and landscaping.

Flowers appear in summer appearing as terminal spikes,  and will be pink, white or purple depending on the cultivar. This is a spreading plant, and overtime it sends out underground rhizomes and will colonise a good sized area.

Lamium maculatum Care

This is a very low care plant if planted in appropriate conditions. Although a moist humus rich soil is best, Lamium maculatum will cope with dry periods. In very dry summer sit can die back, however it will usually reappear as soon as it receives some autumn rain.

Landscaping uses.

As this is a fairly vigorous ground cover it does need an area where it will not crowd out smaller woodland plants. Excellent for underplanting Camellias and other shade loving shrubs. Planted amongst other tough shade loving plants such as hellebores it does well. It will tend to overpower primroses, G and smaller plants. Well suited to underplanting small shrubs grown in containers.

Use it as a border on a shaded pathway or driveway.

Lamium maculatum 'Ghost'
Lamium maculatum ‘Ghost’

Varieties

  • L. maculatum ‘Marshmallow’ – Attractive pink flowers
  • L. maculatum ‘Beacon Silver’ – Pink flowers with silvery green foliage.
  • L. maculatum ‘White Nancy’ – Attractive white flowers.
  • L. maculatum ‘Sensation’ – Deeper pink flowers.
  • L. maculatum ‘Ghost’ – Silvery green foliage with pink to purple flowers.

Summary

  • Position – Dappled shade to medium to heavy shade. Flowering may be restricted in very deep shade.
  • Soil – Humus rich with some moisture.
  • Frost tolerant – Yes
  • Height – To 30cm
  • Flowering period -Spring until Autumn
  • Spread – To 2m over time.

Pruning

We suggest pruning back by 50% each year to promote a more compact bushy habit.

Propagation.

Easy by division of established clumps.

Lamium maculatum is available for sale online from the following nurseries.


Planters Patch
PLANTERS PATCH phone : (02) 9653 3933
Specialist perennial nursery supplying quality plants in 100mm pots. All plants are grown at our nursery and deliver to your door via Australia Post.We have many new releases and favourite perennials plants available.Available by mail order. Supplying NSW, QLD, VIC, ACT & SA.
www.planterspatch.com.au
MISTYDOWNS - Unusual Perennials and Climbing Plants
MISTYDOWNS - Phone 03 534 5 2847
P O Box 398 Creswick Vic 3363 
Retail & Mail Order Specialist Growers of Heritage Roses, Unusual Perennials, Tree & Herbaceous Peonies. Mail order and Nursery Sales.
www.mistydowns.com.au
Nutshell Nursery
NUTSHELL PERENNIAL NURSERY and PLANT FARM
'Umbango' 750 Humula Rd, Humula NSW 2652
Phone 0408692773 Great Range of Perennial plants available for sale by mail order.
www.nutshellnursery.com.au
 

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