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Mystery lamium

DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
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Can anyone identify my mystery lamium please?   I acquired it a couple of years ago as a tiny little thing just labelled 'lamium' thought it might be L. orvala, but I have that in another part of the garden and it's obviously not that.

As you'll see, this one is the same height as I am ... around 5'6 and has wonderful dark purplish-red stems.



Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Are you sure it's a lamium because it looks very much like a purple form of phlomis I had in Belgium.  Much taller stems than russelliana and leaves shaped like yours tho mine were bigger - maybe a question of light and soil fertility?   Everything grew like it was on steroids in that bed.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Agree Obelixx, it is Phlomis tuberosa.
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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Is it possible it could be a hybrid Dove?
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2018
    Well, there you are, thanks folks :)  ... it was labelled lamium and I believed them without question  ... garden gate stall somewhere in the wilds of Norfolk  Thanks folks.  

    It is very tall and it's going to get quite big for that spot shock  I might have to have a re-think ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Worth a decent spot Dove.  Lovely plant with bee friendly flowers and big leaves at the base when happy - weed suppressing size in my experience.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I think the sunny bed in the back garden is due for an extension then ... there's nowhere else!!!  :o

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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