Lamium maculatum Golden Anniversary - Spotted Deadnettle

<strong><a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/perennials/perennials-by-variety/lamium-dead-nettle.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lamium</a> or deadnettles are perennial groundcover plants valued for their flowering and attractive deciduous golden or silver foliage that brighten shady corners</strong>. The ample, dentate foliage of some species may resemble nettles, but typical galea-shaped flowers of Lamiaceae, pink, white, yellow or purple, leave no doubt about their identity, especially since foliage is rather soft and pleasant to the touch. Lamium are generally semi-evergreen perennials that carpet soil and fill gaps between plants with disconcerting ease. <strong>They form an ideal blanket bog to run around large-leaved perennials</strong> such as hostas, Arum italicum, Lunaria rediviva or Brunnera macrophylla. In spring, their silvery or golden mossy foliage is studded with small crowns or spikes of pink flowers in <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/perennials/perennials-by-variety/lamium-dead-nettle/lamium-maculatum-beacon-silver-spotted-deadnettle.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lamium maculatum Beacon Silver</a>, white in <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/perennials/perennials-by-variety/lamium-dead-nettle/lamium-maculatum-white-nancy-spotted-deadnettle.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Nancy</a>, pale yellow in Lamiastrum galeobdolon, etc. <strong>Lamiastrum galeobdolon, nicknamed yellow nettle, has a strong tendency to wander</strong> due to rapid growth of its stolons forming tapetum up to 30 cm thick, <strong>in cool, relatively shaded woodland</strong>. However cultivars such as Hermann’s Pride or Silberteppich are less invasive, forming clumps in small cushion habit 30–50 cm wide and 15–20 cm high. <strong>Maculate dead-nettles</strong> (Lamium maculatum) likewise do not produce stolons but form dense cushions with delicate downy foliage topped by spikes of pink or white flowers. They grow in partial shade and <strong>can also be used as border or bedding plants</strong>, reaching 15–25 cm high depending on variety. These plants can also be combined with spring bulbs that will provide a floral display before foliage regrowth. <strong>Little-known oval dead-nettle produces vigorous green clumps up to 50 cm high and 50–60 cm wide, topped by delicate wine-coloured or white spikes.</strong> <strong>Lamium are plants</strong> <strong>very easy to grow that avoid chore of weeding in shaded areas and grow where lawn lacks light. They prefer any fresh, light and well-drained soil.</strong> Although some species such as Lamium maculatum tolerate sun, avoid direct sun. But Lamium still have surprises: planted with <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/vegetable-gardens/vegetables-by-variety/seed-potatoes.html">potato</a>, <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/perennials/perennials-by-variety/lamium-dead-nettle/lamium-maculatum-white-nancy-spotted-deadnettle.html">Lamium maculatum White Nancy</a> repels Colorado potato beetles and improves flavour of potatoes.