Lamium, Spotted Dead Nettle 'Orchid Frost'

A great perennial for shade in New England. I've never known it to be weedy or invasive in any sense, nor is it a noxious weed in any US ...Read Morestate.

This doesn't survive long south of Z8 in eastern N. America.

This is planted on a steep hillside that gets only morning sun. I have a few different ground covers beneath large shrubs, and this work...Read Mores really well. It blooms repeatedly, which I didn't expect. If it starts to get too thick or wander where I don't want it, it's easy to just cut or pull it back.

So far I have tired this plant three times. The first two times I planted them in part sun, and they died in the middle of the summer. I ...Read Morefigured that maybe it was too much sun for them. I bought one this year and put it is full shade and it looked great for a few months but once the hot 90F plus weather came they died again. I was careful to make sure it was moist not not too wet. Maybe it will come back when the weather cools off so I gave it a neutral.

Have three small plants establishing in a mostly shaded north exposure (2 hours or so of morning sun). Lamium is a reliable groundcover f...Read Moreor hard places like this, and the function here is to provide semi-evergreen carpet for a couple of monster hostas.

The color of the Orchid Frost blooms is what I treasure. Not purple, not pink, but true ORCHID. In morning sun, the color is warmed to a lavender pink. Late afternoon, in true shade, it blues toward purple. Both are lovely. But the color in the indirect light it gets most of the day here is an absolutely glorious balanced orchid, with bloom clusters large enough to be seen from the road. I can hardly wait to see it when it's filled in!