Re: Lamium

I have not....got that one last year and it hardly lasted the season.
 Actually, I have not found any of the L. maculatum particularly
robust or long-lived in my garden - does not seem to matter where I
put them.  'White Nancy' stuck around the longest - had that for
several years before it just up and disappeared one season in the
blink of an eye.  Figured when 'Aureum' left it was joining all the
rest of the crew somewhere.  I've got one now,  'Anne Greenway' that
has survived 2 seasons but is a straggly sort of child.  Tried 'Pink
Pewter' again last year and it didn't last any longer than it did the
first time I tried it some years ago.

I dunno, you fall for these guys in the nursery - nice fat pots of
compact lovely variegated foliage - and get them in the ground where
they immediately seem to spread out an loll about before they
disappear.  Either I'm really doing something wrong or they are being
pumped up at the growers and need extra food or something they are
not going to get in my garden in order to stay nice.  I've been
killing assorted cultivars of this species on and off for 20 years or
so; should have learned my lesson by now, but I'm a sucker for a nice
pot of variegated leaves:-)

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Nancy Stedman <stedman@RCN.COM>
> Has anyone ever had any luck with yellow-leaved Lamium maculatum?
Mine have
> always died for some reason (unlike the regular sort that spread
and bloom
> on and on). Any species that are tougher than others? Any special
cultural
> instructions?
> Thanks,
> Nancy S., NYC, zone 6B or so
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