Lamium Species, Artillary Plant, Golden Dead Nettle, Yellow Archangel

In western Washington, attractive in hanging basket. Invasive in plantings. Roots at each node and travels (leaps) through desireable p...Read Morelants. Hard to pull. One missed piece, and it spreads all over again. Mine started when it touched down from a cascading pot planting. I put it at the bottom of my list with creeping Jenny, and St. John's wort. All great plants, but only if they can be isolated and rigidly controlled..

I had no idea what I was going to be dealing with when we bought our home a year ago as the flower beds were "developing". In the front b...Read Moreed (shady with overhang) and at the rear of the property (full sun) was this lovely green ground cover with yellow flowers....I have since discovered how horribly invasive this stuff is. I would wish the botanists who "invented" this particular species to be entwined in it for all eternity!! I'm hoping Round-up might kill it. As has been stated before it has a massive, crawling root system and short of digging up the entire beds, well, as much as I hate using the stuff, Round-up it is!! WARNING: DON'T PLANT THIS STUFF!!!

Got about 10 plants from a neighbor in my subdivision a year ago. I've planted them in full sun, partial shade and full shade. They ar...Read Moree all growing vigorously. I even use them as accents in hanging baskets. They have nicely covered the ground (hard Virginia clay) in several areas where nothing much else seemed to grow. I do, however, keep them away from several of my landscaped areas. This fall I will remove them from the hanging baskets and plant them in other barren areas. A great plant if kept under control.

This plant is beautiful and grows VERY fast and lush. However, until the second year I didn't know it flowered and had seeds that could ...Read Moreblow around my yard. If it escapes the large planter box, this experience will quickly turn negative. Next year I'll cut off the flowers as soon as they come out.

I have Yellow Archangel in a difficult spot where I've had trouble getting anything to thrive; The very end corner of a north-facing bed ...Read Morethat is choked with pine tree roots. It is behaving nicely there and lights up that dark corner. If anything, I wish it would spread a little faster! I think the best use for this plant is in dry shade. -For that situation, it is a treasure.

We have two huge iron pots (once used for washing clothes or scalding hogs), and this plant grows in these two pots regardless of weather...Read More, light or water. Stays pretty nearly all winter. Pots are hung by large chains from tree limbs and the runners are beautiful hanging down the sides of the pots. For a long time I did not know the name of the plant and had to take a sample to a nursery in order to obtain more plants. From one pot I divided the plant and both of these huge pots are full and beautiful. Have not planted it in the ground. We had trouble getting anything to grow in these pots. The pots do have drain holes in the bottom. We occasionally put Miracle Grow in the soil, and they grow and bloom beautifully. I am not a gardner as we work all the time, but these plants have needed very little care to be extremely pretty. Thank you.

Im in Edmonton, Alberta - and this plant is ironclad hardy here (zone 3a) I grow it in big pots for its very handsome cascading foliage...Read More - personally I dont much care if it blooms. I drop the pots right into the veg garden for winter, and pull them out in spring. Ive got it in a dry shade area between two houses where nothing else grows, and you guessed it - it positively thrives, choking out weeds very nicely........which is why I will NEVER plant it with other desired plants again - its as aggressive as aegopodium in my garden, and getting its roots out from under a purple leafed sandcherry was a task Im unwilling to do again.

I planted this several years ago in a problem area that is not only shady but full of small tree stumps. It has performed so well and sp...Read Moreread out and over all the stumps and filled in that area really well. I also started more of it on the north side of my house since I seem to have trouble getting a lot of things to grow there.

The original unvariagated plant grows wild down here in SW England. It is to be found in woodland where it flowers before the leaves of t...Read Morehe trees are fully out. The variagated form often escapes from gardens and can be found in shady spots where it's vigorous nature allows it to compete.

It actually competes on a strong basis with lemon balm! If you have a large problem area, give this plant a try. It may be difficult to...Read More locate in commerce, but it has earned its keep in my shady garden.

This plant has grown well for me in the high desert in somewhat dry shade, under junipers, where there are tree roots to contend with. I...Read Moret blooms here in May, generally--small but attractive yellow blooms that complement the variegated leaves beautifully. It can be propagated easily from cuttings--just pop them into a jar of water. I don't know about seed collection--haven't tried.