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Evergreen spotted dead nettle

EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
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I think that this is a spotted dead nettle, which to my knowledge has never lost its leaves: certainly not in the last few years.  We do have proper frosts. However the RHS website says that spotted dead nettle is deciduous. Is there an evergreen variety of spotted dead nettle? Or is this something else?

Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    That's Lamium maculatum. I can't see where the RHS says it's deciduous
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/Search-Results?query=lamium



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    You're right, that page says it's evergreen. This one says that it's deciduous. https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/9812/i-Lamium-maculatum-i/Details  So that's an error then?  Thank you
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    One of them has to be wrong :) and as you and I have found, it's not deciduous. 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It's not deciduous here either  :)

    We have L. maculatum 'Beacon Silver' in dry shade.

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





  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    I find that it does best in dry shade, but is also doing fine in well-drained sun, although admittedly we get a lot of rain here. Really useful. 
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I have a yellow one, never loses leaves either.
    good for early bee food.
    The RHS make so many mistakes, I never even bother to look there now for info. Problem with internet, the info is only as good as the person writing it. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    Yes, true. I had thought that the RHS, with their reputation and all that, might be a reliable source of information. But I think this forum works better. 
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    edited October 2018
    @Lyn I wouldn't say that "the RHS make so many mistakes". Not any more than the majority of us mortals, seeing that errare humanum est. On the contrary, I've always found their site a reliable source of information on plants.
    I do agree that "any information is as good as the person writing it", but this has nothing to do with the internet itself.

    Here are 2 pics of my Lamium maculatum ‘Beacon Silver’ which I would personally describe as semi-perennial.



  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    I think it's partly computer thing, if not an internet thing. If you're publishing a paper book, the proof reading would have to be more careful because once it's printed you can't put it right. The temptation to just click "done", after a quick scan certainly catches me out. 
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


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