Re: Mystery ground cover
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- Subject: Re: Mystery ground cover
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:41:27 -0400
True, Nancy..always an eye-opener about how differently plants behave
in different environments...one of the grand things about mailing
lists:-)
Now, I have lost a fair share of Lamium over the years, but L.
galeobdolen is a horse of a different color...think it about
impossible to kill. Search out that one and give it a try. The cv.
'Herman's Pride' is quite different, being a clump former, not a
spreader by stems rooting at nodes where they touch ground. It's
also pretty tough, but won't cover ground. Leaves are most
interesting, too and also has a yellow flower, tho' not as showy to
my eye as galeobdolen (yellow archangel). OTOH, I lost the silver
leaf with pink flowered Lamium almost immediately (can't think of the
cv name) and about 99% of my pretty large area of 'White Nancy' to
last year's drought, after having it for quite some time.
BTW, Don, good old Hortus III is out of date:-) According to GRIN,
it's now a Lamium and Lamiastrum is the synonym, apparently since
1995 tho' I just found this out a few months ago.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Nancy Lowe <nlowe@hotmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 10:15 AM
>
>
> I am constantly amazed at the growing differences of plants in
different
> areas (or even different yards!).
>
> Marge wrote about lamium/lamiastrum:
>
> >This is a *very* vigorous plant once it gets going. <snip> >Will
cover any
> >kind of ground, no matter how poor, at a gallop.
> ____________
>
> Now, Marge and I probably have very similar growing conditions (for
example,
> 90-100 degrees and dry right now) and I have had my 3 strikes with
these
> plants. I've tried several sizes and varieties in the somewhat
amended,
> mostly clay and rock shady strip between my house and drive, and
have never
> had any survive! Am finally getting some plants to grow there,
hostas and
> ferns, with some pennyroyal as a ground cover, but no lamium!
>
> Go figure!
>
> Nancy Lowe
> Arkansas, zone 7
>
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