Re: Mystery ground cover
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- Subject: Re: Mystery ground cover
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:07:12 -0400
I concur with Janet, it's Lamium (used to be Lamiastrum) galeobdolon
'Variegatum'.
This is a *very* vigorous plant once it gets going. Has a yellow
spike flower in spring - early May for me, lasting about 2 weeks.
Will cover any kind of ground, no matter how poor, at a gallop.
After it gets well established, will also seed around a bit and show
up here and there. Pull seedlings on sight if they show up where you
don't want them - they look just like the adult plants as far as leaf
form and variegation. Can be mowed after bloom....looks awful for 2
weeks and then comes back quite nicely.
Will grow in deep, dry shade or at least part sun - do not know about
full sun. Shudder to think what it would do in great soil...
Great groundcover for tough locations...would NOT put it in a border
with anything of a delicate nature that I valued as it will try to
swallow it up. If what you have is in that bag, it will take it
about 3 years to start to really cover ground, but it will do.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Don Martinson <llmen@execpc.com>
> Date: Monday, July 17, 2000 11:18 PM
>
> Can anyone ID this photo of a piece of ground cover that was given
me?
>
> http://www.execpc.com/~llmen/unknownGC.jpg
>
> It is hardly here in Zone 5, likes shade, grows from long runners
> that appear to root at the nodes. I have never seen it flower.
It
> is rather attractive and does not appear to be invasive (at least
in
> the garden that it came from).
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
> --
> Don Martinson
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> l*@execpc.com
>
>
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