Lamium Species

This plant does grow well under evergreen trees with partial sun. In 2004 Michigan had a fairly cool, rainy summer and I placed a few pl...Read Moreants in full sun. It went nuts! It grew to about a foot in some spots and spread everywhere. It was beautiful but it also killed some of my other plants that were buried beneath the spread. I now have new plants sprouting in several areas this spring.

I have a couple of varieties - one has pink blossoms and the other has white. Also, one has more of a silver leaf and the other a varigated green.

I recieved this plant as a gift and what a wonderful display it has given me this year. It does not like full sun but rather shade and sl...Read Moreightly acid soil. I have it planted around the bases of my evergreen shurbs.
For propagation you can either divide plants in spring or take cuttings in the summer.
It with stood our hard Michigan winter just fine and here it is the middle of July and it is still in bloom!
I have the variegated leaves with the purple flowers.
Good Gardening to everyone
PattieK

Perennial, compact, mat forming plant from Southern Europe and Asia Minor.

Has, ovate, heart shaped, toothed, mid-green le...Read Moreaves. Bears typical tubular, dead nettle shaped, pale pink flowers marked with deep reddish purple.

Flowers April-June

Likes a sharply drained soil in full sun or partial shade. Dislikes winter wet.